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Huckabee: Create a Palestinian state—in Egypt or Saudi Arabia

By Ami Eden · December 12, 2007

Check out this account of Huckabee's campaign stop back in October at the house of Jason Bedrick, the first Orthodox Jew to be elected to the New Hampshire State House:

In response to a question about the Middle East from Rabbi Moshe Bleich of the Wellesley-Weston Chabad Center, Gov. Huckabee expressed frustration with Israeli politicians who wanted to give away the Golan Heights and firmly opposed dividing Jerusalem.

When asked about a Palestinian state, Gov. Huckabee stated that he supports creating a Palestinian state, but believes that it should be formed outside of Israel. He named Egypt and Saudi Arabia as possible alternatives, noting that the Arabs have far more land than the Israelis and that it would only be fair for other Arab nations to give the Palestinians land for a state, rather than carving it out of the tiny Israeli state.