Donald Trump has selected Mike Huckabee, Governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007 and a right-wing evangelical preacher with a messianic view about Israel, as U.S. ambassador to Israel.
Huckabee has voiced strong support for Israel’s war on Gaza even though it has engaged in egregious war crimes, and acts of ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Newsweek reported that Huckabee’s appointment led to rejoicing among Israel’s right-wing settlers and advocates of Israel’s territorial claims in the occupied West Bank, which Huckabee supports.