He’s not speaking in Arabic though:
Far from Iowa, likely Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told a crowd of Jewish Israelis yesterday that he’d be just as mad as they are if anybody tried to kick him out of America the way Israelis are being asked to not build or live in disputed lands.
“I cannot imagine as an American being told that I could not live in certain places in America because I was Christian, or because I was white, or because I spoke English,” Huckabee said. “I would be outraged if someone told me that in my country, I would be prohibited and forbidden to live in a part of that country, for any reason.”
On the other hand, if you’re Arab, it’s totally not outrageous, and you just have no claim whatsoever, even to the roof currently over your head:
Palestinians who live in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, Huckabee said, should settle in “territory that [is] in the hands of Muslims, in the hands of Arabs,” as determined by the “international community.”
It’s not all that often someone declares allegiance to a universal moral principle, and then refutes it immediately afterwards after moving the labels around a little bit.
