That didn't happen after 9-11.

It is extraordinary, but there is something that is so irrational about the kind of Jew hatred that we see.

And that's what it is.

Antisemitism is simple Jew hatred.

That's what it comes down to.

And you ask yourself, why? There's only 16 million Jews in the entire world.

That represents 0.02% of the world's population.

The Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, all men are created equal.

USA.

You see, in my mind, I was hearing you say, "Go, Huck.

Go," but, uh- [crowd cheering] I wanna say how grateful I am to Donald Trump for inviting us here because the easy thing for him to do is to simply ignore that anybody else cares about veterans, and he's not that kind of person.

And I wanna say thank you, Donald Trump, for asking Rick Santorum and me, and I think he would have let any of the other candidates come.

And for reasons that maybe I don't understand, they, they're not here.

Some of them because they had a slot at 8:00.

I had nothing to do at 8:00 tonight.

[laughing]

With you, it's A-plus, my friend.

I think a lot of Americans may not fully understand the impact that October 7th had on the state of Israel.

Three years ago, over 1,200 people, including 46 Americans, they weren't just murdered.

They were massacred.

They were butchered.

In ways that are so unspeakable, I wouldn't even present them on a radio show without some qualifications because it was just the most vicious and intentionally hurtful thing to hurt people not only physically but emotionally and to humiliate them.

But here we are three years later, and what concerns me is a lot of Americans don't fully comprehend what happened and what Israel had to do to respond to it.

What was that all about? How preplanned was this whole thing and how orchestrated was this? And where's the moral compass of these people?

[laughs]

Well, that's very kind.

I think a lot of Americans may not fully understand the impact that October 7th had on the State of Israel.

Uh, three years ago, over 1,200 people, including 46 Americans, they weren't just murdered.

They were massacred.

They were butchered in ways that are so unspeakable I wouldn't even present them on a radio show without some qualifications because it was just the most vicious and intentionally hurtful thing to hurt people not only physically but emotionally and to humiliate them.

But here we are three years later, and what concerns me is a lot of Americans don't fully comprehend what happened and what Israel had to do to respond to it.

End the war." What was that all about? How pre-planned was this whole thing, and how orchestrated was this, and where's the moral compass of these people?

[laughs]

Well, that's very kind.

I think a lot of Americans may not fully understand the impact that October 7th had on the State of Israel.

Uh, three years ago, over 1,200 people, including 46 Americans, they weren't just murdered, they were massacred.

They were butchered in ways that are so unspeakable I wouldn't even present them on a radio show without some qualifications, because it was just the most vicious and intentionally hurtful thing to hurt people not only physically but emotionally, and to humiliate them.

But here we are three years later, a- and what concerns me is a lot of Americans don't fully comprehend what happened and what Israel had to do to respond to it.

Let me give a little perspective.

End the war." What was that all about? How preplanned was this whole thing, and how orchestrated was this, and where's the moral compass of these people?

[laughs]

Well, that's very kind.

I think a lot of Americans may not fully understand the impact that October 7th had on the State of Israel.

Uh, three years ago, over 1,200 people, including 46 Americans, they weren't just murdered, they were massacred.

They were butchered in ways that are so unspeakable, I wouldn't even present them on a radio show without some qualifications, because it was just the most vicious and intentionally hurtful thing to hurt people, not only physically, but emotionally, and to humiliate them.

But here we are three years later, and what concerns me is a lot of Americans don't fully comprehend what happened and what Israel had to do to respond to it.

Let me give a little perspective.

End the war." What was that all about? How pre-planned was this whole thing, and how orchestrated was this, and where's the moral compass of these people?

What did Yaniv say when you gave him a MAGA hat signed by President Trump?

Well, I had watched an interview in which he said he would love to say, thank you, President Trump.

And I said, we should invite him to the embassy.

So we did.

Two hours later, he's there.

In a display case in my office, I have a MAGA hat that the president signed for me and gave to me in the Oval Office some time ago.

And it occurred to me, you know, I'm no hero.

What do you think about that, Ambassador Huckabee?

Uh, why did you feel it's so important to go on there and, and debate him and just, you know, hash it out?

You know, I've known him for over 30 years, worked with him for six and a half years in New York at Fox.

This is a different person than the person I have known for many years.

And he had been saying some things about me.

He said that he could not stand Christian Zionists.

He thought they were the worst people in the world.

And I'm thinking, "Well, Tucker, you know, I'm a Christian Zionist, I guess, by your definition, so am I the worst person in the world? Worse than, uh, the Ayatollah, worse than, uh, Nazis?" So I, I reached out to him.

What, w-what the country-- would the country be united, or would the country be even more divided?

Mm.

And they're pretty predictable, but more importantly, even in the midst of war, this is gonna sound really hard for a lot of Americans to understand.

Six weeks of war earlier this spring, and I felt safer here than I would during a tornado in Arkansas.

Now, you follow the protocol, and the, there's a great system of missile defense, ubiquitous shelters everywhere.

There's a phenomenal electronic system that warns people.

When you hear it, you take cover, you go to the shelter, but not one person, not one, in the entirety of Israel was injured or killed during six weeks of war who went to the shelter and was there during the, uh, incoming ballistic missile attacks.

And ballistic missiles are not little rockets.

Mm.

Mm.

And they're pretty predictable, but more importantly, even in the midst of war, this is gonna sound really hard for a lot of Americans to understand.

Six weeks of war earlier this spring, and I felt safer here than I would during a tornado in Arkansas.

Now, you follow the protocol, and the-- there's a great system of missile defense, ubiquitous shelters everywhere.

There's a phenomenal electronic system that warns people.

When you hear it, you take cover.

You go to the shelter.

But being here, we can all be Charlie.

Is it possible to turn that back just with words?

You know, I sure hope it is.

I think it's going to take more than words.

It's going to take an illumination of people who are willing to look at truth.

When people say things like Israel is a genocidal nation, on its face, that's nonsense.

If you're genocidal, the population you're trying to destroy doesn't grow by 4 percent a year.

And you don't give them a million polio vaccines, which Israel did to the people of Gaza.

What has to change?

So what is the next move here? Are you getting any indication from the Netanyahu government that they're actually gonna take action against the people you've branded terrorists?

Absolutely.

They already have.

Uh, they have, first of all, uh, made it very clear that they plan to arrest and adjudicate people who are caught doing these things.

They've donated about 130 million shekels to change the way that they deal with, uh, the issues of violence that go on in Judea and Samaria.

Again, I think a lot of this is being done by what we would call settlers.

Uh, again, I call them unsettlers.

Um, you know, with hindsight, calling a Jewish Foreign Secretary of Britain a Jew hater because he's applying sanctions to a group of people who, by your own admission, include people committing acts of terrorism, seems a little perverse.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told me the ones who are really getting a raw deal in the situation are the Israeli police.

Israel, to its credit, protects Muslim and Christian sites with the same level of fervor and tenacity with which they protect Jewish sites.

I don't think they get enough credit for that, because they are as protective of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, two very important sites in the Muslim faith, as they are to the Western Wall, or as they are to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher or the Garden Tomb, which are very special for Christian believers.

But what about a Third Jewish Temple? Do Christians think it could or even should be built? And if it is, should believers in Yeshua worship there? I pose that question to Huckabee, who in addition to being a US ambassador, is also an ordained Southern minister.

Well, that's an interesting question.

I don't think I've, I've ever been asked that, and I've been asked pretty much everything.

You know, I, I don't need a temple to worship in because the Bible for me and the New Testament says my body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.

Uh, I would find it very interesting.

Is this about theology or shared values, or is it something else?

Well, it's both theology and shared values.

I like to remind my Jewish friends that if there had never been a Jewish foundation, there would not be Christianity, because all of Christianity is built upon the foundation of Judaism.

We sometimes talk in cultural terms about the Judeo-Christian values, the Judeo-Christian foundation.

Well, the fact is, it is the Judeo-Christian foundation that is the essence of all Western civilization, which is the underpinning of America.

And that's why when I said a few months ago in a speech that had there never been an Israel, there wouldn't be a United States, there wouldn't be an America, people thought, "Well, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard," until they went back and did a little study and found out that what I said was actually historically correct.

And if one reads the founders, they quoted the Bible more than any other document, more than 10 times the documents that they quoted, whether it was from the Greek civilization or from Romans or from wherever else.

Are you concerned about the way that you're seeing younger evangelicals or younger Christians approaching Israel?

What, h- You know, h- what, how do you see things playing out from here?

I think the important thing is to communicate to the American people why this matters to them.

I mean, most Americans are thinking, "This is halfway around the world.

What does it have to do with me?" Well, it has to do with you in a lot of reasons.

First of all, uh, fuel prices are gonna be affected by the global energy market, and if the Iranians are able to block the Strait of Hormuz, they change the dynamics of the energy market.

That means prices go up.

It means alignments change.

So will it ever work?

Um, would it not be better politically, economically, putting aside anything else, for the United States to extricate itself from this war, claim a victory, you know, do what Trump does very well, you know, just paper over the cracks and just say, "Look, we've, we've achieved these aims," boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, and just get the hell out of this?

Well, first of all, I was in the Situation Room when that discussion was held, and I, I do disagree with any, uh, narrative that says that the Israelis talked Donald Trump into it.

Uh, that simply did not happen.

Nobody talked him into anything.

Piers, you know President Trump really well.

You've known him a long time.

You know him better than most people who do interviews on TV.

Does that concern you?

How much progress do we see towards blunting and negating Hezbollah's influence in Lebanon? Is it possible for Hezbollah again to be kind of pushed out of the picture and to have peace between Israel and Lebanon? It, it certainly f- feels like the negotiations are bearing fruit and we're moving slowly at least in that direction.

Absolutely, Eric.

It's very much a historic moment.

Um, I was back in DC five different times during the course of the peace talks with Lebanon.

We had the United States, Lebanon, and Israel all in the same room.

That alone was historic because since 1955, the Lebanese are not supposed to have anything to do with the Israelis or even be in the same room with them.

They were more than in the same room.

Can you remind us real quick, remind our viewers real quick what that debt is and why it is so important, especially now?

Uh, Khanna said, "The only reason our lives were saved is because of the excellent work of the American Embassy." You think Ro Khanna was gonna be killed by the IDF?

That's, that's absurd, it's ridiculous, and here are some facts that maybe Ro Khanna doesn't want us to tell you.

First of all, he did not let us know he was coming.

Most of the time, a member of Congress, if they're coming to the country, uh, they coordinate with us.

They let us know they're coming.

We make sure that there is security.

He didn't want our assistance because he came at the invitation and under the guide of this, uh, very pro-Palestinian activist who is known for regularly trying to take people into, uh, provocative situations, uh, in Judea and Samaria.

Not a good idea to detain a long-shot presidential candidate, what do you think that threat means?

Where do you want to start? Let's talk

about Lebanon, because I was very involved as a U.S. ambassador to Israel, along with my colleague, Ambassador Michelle Issa, who is U.S. ambassador to Lebanon.

And we joined with delegations from both Israel, Lebanon, and the State Department.

And over five different sessions of peace talks, we're able to put together a peace agreement between Lebanon and Israel that is truly historic.

And it's something that every American can be proud of because for the first time since 1955, the government of Lebanon is now recognizing Israel and its sovereignty.

Israel and Lebanon declare they're not at war with each other.

Israel declares it does not want to annex any of Lebanon.

Is it Gavin Newsom in charge or President Trump, you know?

Where do you want to start?

Let's talk about Lebanon, because I was very involved as U.S. ambassador to Israel, along with my colleague, Ambassador Michelle Issa, who is U.S. ambassador to Lebanon.

And we joined with...

Delegations from both Israel, Lebanon, and the State Department and over five different sessions of peace talks were able to put together a peace agreement between Lebanon and Israel that is truly historic.

And it's something that every American can be proud of because for the first time since 1955, the government of Lebanon is now recognizing Israel and its sovereignty.

Israel and Lebanon declare they're not at war with each other.

Israel declares it does not want to annex any of Lebanon.

Is it Gavin Newsom in charge or President Trump, you know?

Where do you want to start?

Let's talk about Lebanon because I was very involved as a U S ambassador to Israel, along with my colleague, ambassador, Michelle Issa, who is U S ambassador to Lebanon.

And we joined with, uh, delegations from both Israel, Lebanon and the state department and over five different sessions of peace talks were able to, uh, put together a peace agreement between Lebanon and Israel.

That is truly historic.

And it's something that every American can be proud of because for the first time since 1955, the government of Lebanon is now recognizing Israel and its sovereignty.

Israel and Lebanon declare they're not at war with each other.

Israel declares it does not want to annex any of Lebanon.

Is it Gavin Newsom in charge or President Trump, you know?

ambassador lately in the last few weeks a few months there's been a lot of controversy going on between lebanon the straight of her moves and iran and nobody really knows who's in charge in iran where do you want to start let's talk about lebanon

because i was very involved as a u.s ambassador to israel along with my colleague ambassador michelle isa who is u.s ambassador to lebanon and we joined with uh Delegations from both Israel, Lebanon, and the State Department and over five different sessions of peace talks were able to put together a peace agreement between Lebanon and Israel that is truly historic.

And it's something that every American can be proud of because for the first time since 1955, the government of Lebanon is now recognizing Israel and its sovereignty.

Israel and Lebanon declare they're not at war with each other.

Israel declares it does not want to annex any of Lebanon.

Lebanon declares that not only is it not at war, but its real enemy is Hezbollah.

And that's a big thing, John, because it puts this in the right perspective.

Anything else you want to say to the American people that are listening today?

What do you have to say about it?

Well, it's important, I think, to create this biblical highway for the simple reason that 80% of the Bible happened in Judea and Samaria.

It makes perfect sense to call attention, not just within Israel, but around the world, to the importance biblically of this historic place.

Does that not speak to the great democracy that is Israel?

I think a lot of people may not understand that there are not any of those kind of parades going on anywhere else in the region.

So whatever you may think of whether there ought to be a full month of gay pride, that's not the issue.

The point is that in Israel there is freedom.

There is freedom of speech.

There is freedom of association.

There is freedom of religion.

But on the other hand, I'm worried about relatives and people in Israel who do have to suffer the consequences because, Mike, they can't hit Little Rock, they can't hit Brooklyn or Cincinnati, but they can certainly hit Tel Aviv.

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-for generations back.

Uh, or things like that Jews should have a DNA test in order to live in Israel.

And I'm thinking, okay, what does that mean? Should Americans have a DNA test to prove that somehow they're related to Native Americans? Is that where he, where he was going with that? You mentioned about being a Zionist, and I would say I certainly am.

It's not some disease.

It simply means that you believe, as I do, that the Jewish people have a right to live in the homeland that has been their, uh, undisputed, well, until recent years, uh, homelands for three thousand eight hundred years since the time of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

And they have connection to this land.

Um, what, what, what does he say to you in your role as ambassador?