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Huckabee: 2-state solution 'unrealistic'
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Last Edited | RP Aug 18, 2009 01:07pm |
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Media | Newspaper - Jerusalem Post |
News Date | Tuesday, August 18, 2009 07:05:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | Former US presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said Tuesday there is no room for a Palestinian state "in the middle of the Jewish homeland" and that Israel should be able to build settlements wherever it wants.
Huckabee visit sparks protests
Ex-presidential hopeful attends reception at controversial east J'lem site.
Huckabee's opposition to a Palestinian state puts him at odds with the accepted wisdom of both Democrats and Republicans - and to some degree even with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has come out in favor of a demilitarized Palestinian state.
Speaking to a small group of foreign reporters in Jerusalem, Huckabee, seen as a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2012, said the international community should consider establishing a Palestinian state some place else. |
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