A US congressional district in Israel!

Even Americans are confused about whether US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee represents the United States or Israel. Indeed, in an interview with Huckabee last February, Aidan McLaughlin of Vanity Fair asked: "There's a perception among some on the right in the United States that you act more like Israel's ambassador than America's. What's your response to that charge?"

In the Vanity Fair interview, Huckabee attributed the shifting sentiments against Israel in American public opinion, especially among young Americans, to young people getting their news about the region primarily from social media platforms, especially TikTok.

Huckabee also said that on the genocide in Gaza, Israel's official information should be trusted. When Aidan McLaughlin pointed out that according to data from the Israeli military's intelligence database, 83 percent of those killed in the attacks on Gaza were reported to be civilians, and asked for his thoughts, Huckabee tried to twist even that information. Huckabee, who presents himself as a passionate Evangelical Christian, stubbornly defends the killing of Palestinians, more than 20,000 of whom were children in Gaza.

Huckabee also claims that another of his duties as Ambassador is to explain to Americans what they gain from the US-Israel relationship. Apparently, thanks to this relationship, Americans can get Israeli cherry tomatoes and seedless watermelons. The munitions Israel uses to slaughter Palestinian children, meanwhile, are produced in Arkansas, where Huckabee once served as governor. Of course, Huckabee doesn't mention that the bombs sent to Israel come out of Americans' pockets.

Another striking statement Huckabee made in the interview was that many US citizens have died fighting in the ranks of the Israeli army. This was an official admission that many American Jews are participating in the genocide in Gaza. It is known that a significant portion of illegal settlers in occupied territories, especially in the West Bank, are American Jews.

Speaking at an event in Jerusalem on July 1, Huckabee noted that 700,000 American Jewish citizens live in Israel. The event concerned the allocation of land previously seized from Palestinians in Jerusalem for a new US Embassy building. Huckabee said the US Embassy would also serve the 700,000 American Zionist settlers. Huckabee continued:

"For those unaware, I want to point out that 700,000 Americans is equal to the total population of a congressional district in the US. That's how many people live in a congressional district. When members of Congress come, I always say: 'Welcome to Israel, the 426th Congressional District of the United States.'"

In his speech, Huckabee also claimed (however he determined it) that Jerusalem was allocated by God to the Jews as a capital "3,800 years" ago. Huckabee also claims that Israel is not only the homeland of the Jewish state, but also a partner of the American people. The majority of the American public does not think like Huckabee, of course, but that doesn't matter. According to Huckabee, Americans who don't think that way don't count as "American."

Huckabee seems to view America as consisting solely of Evangelicals who, like him, are "Christian Zionists." However, Professor Elizabeth Oldmixon, known for her work on religion and politics, said in a 2018 interview with Vox that Christian Zionists of the Huckabee type, a subset of Evangelical Christian Americans, number about 15 million. That figure represents only about a third of American Evangelical Christians.

Last June, Trump said, "Without us, without the US, Israel wouldn't exist." Huckabee, however, said, "Without Israel, America wouldn't exist either. We owe our existence to what happened on this land." This was interpreted as a response to Trump.

Former presidential candidate and famous conservative politician-writer Pat Buchanan once said in 1990 that Capitol Hill was "occupied territory under Israeli control." Buchanan was accused of being 'anti-Semitic' by Zionists for criticizing the influence of the Israel Lobby on the US Congress. Buchanan waged war against the staunchly pro-Israel Neocons within the Republican Party and ultimately left the Party to continue his political career as an independent. Let this serve as a reminder of Buchanan, in passing.