The event – a rare one for US presidential candidates – was arranged by Miami-based Simon Falic, who with his brothers owns Duty Free Americas Inc., the largest duty-free operator in the US.
JPOST
While Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is on jury duty in New York, and Marco Rubio and John Kasich are stumping at the Iowa State Fair, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee will travel to Israel Tuesday and hold an afternoon fund-raiser in the West Bank settlement of Shiloh.
The event – a rare one for US presidential candidates – was arranged by Miami-based Simon Falic, who with his brothers owns Duty Free Americas Inc., the largest duty-free operator in the US.
Falic, who has financially supported a number of projects in the Shiloh area, is also a generous contributor to pro-Israel Republican and Democratic politicians. In addition, he has contributed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political campaigns.
Huckabee is scheduled to meet Netanyahu during his brief visit. A spokesman for the prime minister said it is Netanyahu’s practice to meet with all the presidential contenders.
Huckabee, who has come to Israel dozens of times over the years since his first visit in 1973 – many times leading church groups – last met Netanyahu in Jerusalem in February, just before the prime minister’s controversial address to Congress.
Huckabee explained in a CNN interview on Sunday why it was important for him to be in Israel, right now, rather than Iowa, saying, “I have got a lot of friends there. And a lot of Americans live there. We’re doing some fund-raising, but, more importantly, I will also be visiting with a number of officials and discussing the Iranian deal, because I think it’s the most dangerous situation that we face, not just for the Middle East, but for the rest of the world, in a long time.”
Huckabee came under a barrage of criticism, including from many in Israel and the Jewish community, for saying last month that with the Iran nuclear deal US President Barack Obama was ultimately taking the Israelis and marching “them to the door of the oven.”
Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer rejected those remarks, saying “these are not words that I would use or that I think are appropriate.”
Netanyahu, in a briefing with journalists shortly thereafter, endorsed Dermer’s reaction.
Huckabee, in the CNN interview, said the nuclear deal was “essentially arming and equipping a terrorist state. The Iranian government is not to be trusted. And for 36 years, they kidnapped Americans. They have killed Americans. They hold Americans hostage right now. And we’re being pushed to get into a deal that gives us nothing, but gives the Iranians the capacity to ultimately end up with a nuclear weapon, and that’s just insane.”
Huckabee, in the Israel section on his campaign website, wrote of the Jewish state: “In a world of uncertainty, evil and moral insanity, Israel is a shining light of moral clarity. The enemies of Israel are the enemies of America. Sadly, this [Obama] administration spends more time berating Israel for building houses in the lands given to Abraham than telling the Iranians to stop building bombs pointed at us.”
Huckabee is not the first presidential candidate to see fund-raising potential in Israel.
Mitt Romney came to Israel in July 2012, after sewing up the Republican nomination and a few months before the election he lost to Obama, accompanied by some Jewish contributors. He raised $1.5 million during that trip, including about $200,000 from American Israelis living here. The rest of the contributions came from those who accompanied him on the visit.
Israel is not the only country candidates visit on fund-raising tours. For instance, Romney raised $2m. in 2012 from Americans living in London during a visit there.
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He looks at home there, in his element.
If I ever had the misfortune of meeting that rat-bastard, I would like to have him autograph a photo of dead Gaza kids and see what his reaction would be……
Going to hell to raise funds from the rabid dogs who burn babies and churches. What a lying sack of excrement this creature is! His maggot-infested soul is warped beyond redemption. Belief in those Bronze-Age myths is going to get the world incinerated.
Great idea, Tony
traitor.
Like Judas who betrayed his Master, this man betrays his nation for a few coins,
What a piece of fat filth. Reverend, ex Governor Hucksters, words of praise for Israel ,so heavy in the sanctimony of a desperate man, seeking favor, hit me with strong disgust.
This father who ,protected his degenerate son, who was known to torture animals, while he was the Governor, of that Bible Belt hellhole, of Arkansas where the people are so stupid ,they have been a political base for Israel’s machinations in the US, since they tossed Fulbright for Bumpers in 1974.
.
Dropping like the heavy stone, he is,politically, Huckster rushes himself to the center of Satan’s HQ on earth, and calls it “Moral”.
A rotten sick man,more qualified for an insane asylum than any political office.
He should be arrested as an unregistered agent of a foreign government.
I don’t know how many people think like me, but I think more are starting to. This guarantees he will never get my vote for anything, furthermore it makes him my enemy.
Gomer Pyle Hucksbee seeks the favor of Yahweh, to revive his White House bid .
No Chance,as not even that evil Jew God, can do that….but at least the fast slob can renew his 666 ,mark of the beast…hexagram tatooed on his fat can.
Huckabee should not be allowed to return to America.
It’s going to happen soon or later that the church in America will wake up and see how crafty these people have been (Psalms 83:3-5). They will eventually wake up but oh when they do how things will get heated. Huckabee and those like him will show great wroth: Nehemiah 4:7, 8 because there golden calf is exposed that they have followed wrong doctrines.
Jeremiah 50:38 says they are mad about there idols. The bible is a war manual and it’s time the truth get’s exposed. Time to put on all the armor of truth: Ephesians 6.
Ms Jacobs with all due respect, this Zionist Huckabee is a “Reverend”, and organized “Christianity”, is not sleeping .
It is fully awake, and doing it ALL it can for Israel ,and Jewish power over the world.
This fat Jew worshipping swine, represents ,millions ,upon millions of Jew idolizers.
They cal, themselves,” the church”.
It seems that every country has a colonial master to whom they pledge allegiance to, see how in Africa we have countries that have official languages from English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. And to see that this allegiance also influence the cultures, food and the educations of it’s people. But I fail to see how the Americans show so much allegiance to Israel without any colonisation taking place! How can these thinking, progressive Americans be fooled on a daily basis and have agreements they signed with Iran nullified by Israeli lobbies? And now the lobby invites their naiive American ‘candidate’ to raise money in the West Bank, ignoring the Palestinians who live there and giving the settlers legitimacy in someone else’s land. It’s much like stealing your neighbour’s chicken from his coop and inviting your family for a feast.
Dumb Americans will never learn that they are being taken for a ride by the ”Chosen People”.
I was one that was asleep sitting in the church pew. I was involved with the American Family Association, Christian Coalition, had done the National Day of Prayer, Aglow, Moms in Touch for many years, Christian School involvement, prayer groups of all sorts, taught Missions, Sunday school and this went on for nearly thirty years. I knew nothing really worked because I saw it decline. I also knew something was not quite right but it wasn’t until I pulled out of the church that everything clicked.
I discovered others that pulled out also but many, many are still under it’s spell of control. Yes, they are still asleep and need to be on the outside looking in. They know something is not right. Today, the control is much tighter. They are lost in the wrong bibles the pews now have: Satan will not cast out Satan for these people don’t see the truth.
It’s tighter now in control because you have people like Huckabee, John Hagee and all those same control people on TV. They love this control and now you have lots of this control in our congress spreading this same disease idol called the nation of Israel.
They have to be shaken loose and it’s going to take a great wounding to do that: Jeremiah 30:14. God will work on each one in his own way to do it.
It’s no fun doing what I do. You make a lot of enemies, get kicked off webs and can’t tell you how family sees you. But, someone will see how fooled they have been going along with those who love Israel. Someone has to prick their mind and let them know how deceived they have been.
He looks at home there, in his element.
If I ever had the misfortune of meeting that rat-bastard, I would like to have him autograph a photo of dead Gaza kids and see what his reaction would be……
Going to hell to raise funds from the rabid dogs who burn babies and churches. What a lying sack of excrement this creature is! His maggot-infested soul is warped beyond redemption. Belief in those Bronze-Age myths is going to get the world incinerated.
Great idea, Tony
traitor.
Like Judas who betrayed his Master, this man betrays his nation for a few coins,
What a piece of fat filth. Reverend, ex Governor Hucksters, words of praise for Israel ,so heavy in the sanctimony of a desperate man, seeking favor, hit me with strong disgust.
This father who ,protected his degenerate son, who was known to torture animals, while he was the Governor, of that Bible Belt hellhole, of Arkansas where the people are so stupid ,they have been a political base for Israel’s machinations in the US, since they tossed Fulbright for Bumpers in 1974.
.
Dropping like the heavy stone, he is,politically, Huckster rushes himself to the center of Satan’s HQ on earth, and calls it “Moral”.
A rotten sick man,more qualified for an insane asylum than any political office.
He should be arrested as an unregistered agent of a foreign government.
I don’t know how many people think like me, but I think more are starting to. This guarantees he will never get my vote for anything, furthermore it makes him my enemy.
Gomer Pyle Hucksbee seeks the favor of Yahweh, to revive his White House bid .
No Chance,as not even that evil Jew God, can do that….but at least the fast slob can renew his 666 ,mark of the beast…hexagram tatooed on his fat can.
Huckabee should not be allowed to return to America.
It’s going to happen soon or later that the church in America will wake up and see how crafty these people have been (Psalms 83:3-5). They will eventually wake up but oh when they do how things will get heated. Huckabee and those like him will show great wroth: Nehemiah 4:7, 8 because there golden calf is exposed that they have followed wrong doctrines.
Jeremiah 50:38 says they are mad about there idols. The bible is a war manual and it’s time the truth get’s exposed. Time to put on all the armor of truth: Ephesians 6.
Ms Jacobs with all due respect, this Zionist Huckabee is a “Reverend”, and organized “Christianity”, is not sleeping .
It is fully awake, and doing it ALL it can for Israel ,and Jewish power over the world.
This fat Jew worshipping swine, represents ,millions ,upon millions of Jew idolizers.
They cal, themselves,” the church”.
It seems that every country has a colonial master to whom they pledge allegiance to, see how in Africa we have countries that have official languages from English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. And to see that this allegiance also influence the cultures, food and the educations of it’s people. But I fail to see how the Americans show so much allegiance to Israel without any colonisation taking place! How can these thinking, progressive Americans be fooled on a daily basis and have agreements they signed with Iran nullified by Israeli lobbies? And now the lobby invites their naiive American ‘candidate’ to raise money in the West Bank, ignoring the Palestinians who live there and giving the settlers legitimacy in someone else’s land. It’s much like stealing your neighbour’s chicken from his coop and inviting your family for a feast.
Dumb Americans will never learn that they are being taken for a ride by the ”Chosen People”.
I was one that was asleep sitting in the church pew. I was involved with the American Family Association, Christian Coalition, had done the National Day of Prayer, Aglow, Moms in Touch for many years, Christian School involvement, prayer groups of all sorts, taught Missions, Sunday school and this went on for nearly thirty years. I knew nothing really worked because I saw it decline. I also knew something was not quite right but it wasn’t until I pulled out of the church that everything clicked.
I discovered others that pulled out also but many, many are still under it’s spell of control. Yes, they are still asleep and need to be on the outside looking in. They know something is not right. Today, the control is much tighter. They are lost in the wrong bibles the pews now have: Satan will not cast out Satan for these people don’t see the truth.
It’s tighter now in control because you have people like Huckabee, John Hagee and all those same control people on TV. They love this control and now you have lots of this control in our congress spreading this same disease idol called the nation of Israel.
They have to be shaken loose and it’s going to take a great wounding to do that: Jeremiah 30:14. God will work on each one in his own way to do it.
It’s no fun doing what I do. You make a lot of enemies, get kicked off webs and can’t tell you how family sees you. But, someone will see how fooled they have been going along with those who love Israel. Someone has to prick their mind and let them know how deceived they have been.