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President-elect Trump announced Tuesday helium volition nominate erstwhile Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) to service arsenic ambassador to Israel, a large diplomatic relation that volition instrumentality connected added value amid heightened tensions successful the Middle East.
"Mike has been a large nationalist servant, Governor, and Leader successful Faith for galore years," Trump said successful a statement. "He loves Israel, and the radical of Israel, and likewise, the radical of Israel emotion him. Mike volition enactment tirelessly to bring astir Peace successful the Middle East!"
For implicit a year, Israel has carried retired warfare against Hamas pursuing the violent group's attacks successful October 2023 that killed much than 1,000 Israeli citizens. Trump has urged Israel to "finish the problem," adjacent arsenic helium has been captious of however it has carried retired its subject campaign.
Tensions person besides been on the rise betwixt Israel and Hezbollah, the militant radical with a large beingness successful Lebanon.
Huckabee served arsenic politician of Arkansas from 1996-2007, winning 2 afloat presumption aft taking implicit for then-Gov. Jim Guy Tucker (R), who resigned. He ran unsuccessful statesmanlike campaigns successful 2008 and 2016.
Huckabee has sometimes weighed successful connected the existent warfare successful Gaza, telling NewsNation successful June that helium did not spot a crushed to enactment an Israel-Hamas cease-fire, maintaining that the violent radical should not beryllium negotiated with and that the lone mode to extremity the warfare was their implicit surrender.
The erstwhile politician has not held a diplomatic station previously. His nomination, which volition necessitate confirmation by the Senate, comes arsenic Trump volition look unit to quell tensions successful the Middle East.
He was reportedly offered the relation of ambassador to Israel during Trump's archetypal word successful office, though helium denied those reports. He did not service successful the archetypal Trump administration, though his daughter, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, did a stint arsenic Trump's White House property secretary.
Trump's ambassador to Israel during his archetypal word was David Friedman, who worked connected brokering the Abraham Accords to normalize relations betwixt Israel and Arab nations.
