Huckabee: Obama ‘Resents’ Israel Because He ‘Identifies With’ Rest of Middle East

Former Arkansas governor and potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee tried to get to the bottom of President Barack Obama’s “extraordinary disdain” for Israel on Thursday. Ultimately, he decided it must be the president’s “sense of identity with, sympathy for, many of the other Middle Eastern nations” that leads him to “resent” Israel so intensely.

Huckabee’s comments came during an interview with Newsmax’s Steve Malzberg following the White House’s somewhat chilly response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s electoral victory this week. He said it’s “very clear” that the Obama Administration has an “extraordinary disdain for Israel in general and Benjamin Netanyahu in particular.”

“It’s hard for me to understand that,” he added later. “The only thing I can fathom is he has such an extraordinary sense of identity with, sympathy for, many of the other Middle Eastern nations.”

“I think he resents the strength of Israel,” Huckabee continued. “I think he resents very much the strength of Benjamin Netanyahu, who is absolutely forthright in his understanding of what the threats are with Islamic jihadism, a term that President Obama cannot bring himself to utter, nor can his administration.”

Unlike Obama, Huckabee called Netanyahu a “very strong leader who keeps his word,” adding, “Bibi Netanyahu is a Churchill in a world of Chamberlains.”

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