Huckabee: Israel occupation is good because sidewalks

[DetlefK]

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/mike-huckabees-laugher-says-israeli-occupation-helps-palestinians-because-they-get

Excerpt:

"“We must educate world,” Huckabee said in his Sunday speech, “that the Israelis have done more to bring prosperity, peace, and a state of liberty to people, whether they’re Jewish or not.”

The former governor of Arkansas describes a visit last year to a Soda Stream factory in Judea, where he observed “600 Arabs and 500 Jews working side by side, the Arabs earning four times the amount of money they would in any place in the [Palestinian Authority].” Even still, says Huckabee, there is probably “somebody in Europe or somebody in this country sitting in some Ivy League ivory tower” questioning Israel’s supreme authority.

“Tell that to Arabs who’ve made more than ever in their lives,” Huckabee quips. He argues occupied Palestine is better off under Israeli control, because of sidewalks, hospitals, and schools that Palestinians “never had before.”"

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You can't beat that argument. How many hospitals have the Palestinians themselves built since the founding of Israel? How many factories, how many homes? None or next to none? There you have it: Occupation is good for Palestinians.

[oberliner]

1. What have the Romans ever done for us?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

(Courtesy of Monty Python)

[Jefferson23]

2. Huckabee is not a champion of anyone's freedom in the US, so no surprise he would

continue that message abroad. Fuck him.