Posted on 07/18/2025 4:50:49 AM PDT by hcmama
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has threatened to publicly declare that Israel no longer welcomes Christian groups to Israel over what he said was Jerusalem’s failure to approve tourist visas for evangelical missions.
The threat was issued in a letter that Huckabee sent on Wednesday to Interior Minister Moshe Arbel, which was leaked to Hebrew media on Thursday. Arbel pushed back on the allegations in a response letter that was obtained by The Times of Israel.
“It would be very unfortunate if our embassy were forced to publicly announce throughout the United States that the State of Israel does not welcome Christian organizations and their representatives, and instead engages in harassment and negative treatment of them. We are also obligated to warn Christians in America that their generous donations are being met with hostility, and that tourists should reconsider their travels,” the US envoy wrote, according to the Belaaz Jewish news site.
Huckabee sent copies of his letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana.
Given Huckabee’s longstanding support for Israel and close ties with the current government in particular, the rhetoric in his letter represented a shockingly quick deterioration.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...
Unless I am mistaken or maybe they were only trying to continue the script needed, I am quite certain the radical heathens among them caused the most innocent of men to be crucified.
As a Christian I have always surmised if they could do that to him, they can do it to each one of us!! Onward Christian soldiers I say!!
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has threatened to publicly declare that Israel no longer welcomes Christian groups to Israel over what he said was Jerusalem’s failure to approve tourist visas for evangelical missions.
Israel no longer welcomes Christians? Hah. They’re killing Chrostians.
Reference: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu hypocritically expresses “deep sorrow” and “apologizes” for the killing and maiming from Israel’s bombing a Catholic Church in Gaza.
And here we are gaslighted by Israel that all those Gazans need to be annihilated because they’re nothing but hate-filled Muslim terrorists. No mention of Gazan Catholics....... and other Gazan Christians........
On 24 October this year, Joe Biden, then-President, said that the US supports Israel based on “our principles, ideals, [and] values. They are the same values,” Biden emphasized.
He is talking about “values and ideals,” giving the sap-happy impression that the US and Israel “share the noble ideals and principles of freedom and equally value democracy, where human rights and law are highly regarded.........even for Christians. “
This is a far-from-reality comment, and it makes Biden, as President, complicit in what Israel is doing in the Gaza Strip and to Gazans.
When Hamas Resistance fighters attacked Israel, Mr. Biden made it his sacred mission to step up his support for Israel by offering the Occupation State unprecedented financial, political and expertise support.
Biden first announced, and got Congress approval for $14.5bn for Israel. The colossal sum of money gives the impression that tiny Israel is fighting another superpower, not “terrorists”, as it calls Hamas.
Of course, this is aside from the annual $4bn that Israel gets in military aid from the Christian American taxpayers. Some of the extra windfall came in the form of military equipment, including the top line bombs from Christian American defense weapons that are being used by Israel to kill, maim and displace Palestinians across the Gaza Strip.
The idea of “shared” values between Tel Aviv and Washington raises questions:
<><>what is the shared noble values that both capitals have in common?
<><>What US interests compel it to support Israel?
<><>What is the single US interest in the death of more than 15,000 Palestinians
<><>what kind of shared US interest is served by repeatedly displacing over 1 million Palestinians after denying them food, medicine, water, medical care and safe shelter?
Over the last 75 years of its bloody history, Israel has not only enjoyed, as Mr. Biden said, “iron-clad” military commitment of Christian US, but its political protection on any international stage wherever Israel is called out, for whatever disaster it has committed.
Israel never stops committing the kind of ugliness unimaginable in the 21 century, like what it is doing in Gaza, always counting on “Christian America’s” help.
Oh well, as long as the Christian American tax dollar billions keep flowing in.
The mask is coming off Israel. They never were our friend.
“US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has threatened to publicly declare that Israel no longer welcomes Christian groups to Israel over what he said was Jerusalem’s failure to approve tourist visas for evangelical missions.”
I’d like to know Israel’s side of the story. It would not surprise me at all if Israel knows that many of these ‘evangelical missions’ only came into existence after the Gaza invasion - in other words, a cover story for American Leftists.
As to Huckabee, he PROVED to the country that he’s a total idiot when he kept releasing violent criminals from jail, claiming he could ‘sense’ that they were reformed....and, of course, they were not reformed.
“...evangelical missions.”
Freedom to evangelize Christianity in Israel?
This Guy is ALL FOR THAT, but is Israel truly legally or at least morally obligated to support evangelical missions as such?
If Israel can legitimately be prevailed upon to cease being antagonistic to such efforts directed toward individuals who are ethnically or religiously jewish, our ambassador should keep doing what he’s doing.
Now if we could somehow get local prelates of the One True Church to start doing the same...
Israel is probably banning evangelical Christians who share your views of Israel and Jews.
You’re unwelcome in the US if you protest against our government or support radical causes. Or protest. That’s a good thing.
Israel is a Jewish state why shouldn’t they keep out people seeking to make it a non-Jewish state?
. The language in the letter sounded like something Trump would say in this situation.
“The language in the letter sounded like something Trump would say in this situation.”
I’d still like to know Israel’s side, since, in just about every other case, they have a damn good reason for what they do.
Israel is probably banning evangelical Christians who share your views of Israel and Jews.
Well, wadda ya know. You learn something new everyday. Thx.
Baloney.
Israel welcomes Christian tourists warmly.
Israel is also a magnet for weirdos: Mormons, Branch Davidians, Scientologists; Islamists; radical leftist groups pretending to be Christian, you name it. So Christian evangelists need to be screened carefully.
It is 100% true, though, that Israel has a deep state bureaucracy that is impenetrable, arbitrary, and stupid. I worked on oil wells there and had the absolute worst time importing normal oilfield equipment. The bureaucracy was openly hostile and recalcitrant and we were there on a government contract helping the country.
“ They’re killing Chrostians”
Are you referring to the human shields your Hamas buddies hid behind in Gaza? Got hit by an errant shell in a building next door to Hamas HQ?
” if they could do that to him, they can do it to each one of us!!”
I think most of the Jews in that crowd are dead.
I’m gonna go ahead and say that Israel is denying visas to groups who want to go to Israel and speak out against them. Just like we should not approve visas for radical Columbia students, Israel should deny visas to these morons. Huck is usually correct on these issues, but I am skeptical of him on this.
Amen...
That should hit Israel like a bucket of ice water. This is serious in many respects if true.
Exactly...
The US envoy wrote, according to a Jewish news site:
<><>“It’d be very unfortunate if our embassy were forced to publicly announce thruout the USA
<><>that the State of Israel does not welcome Christian organizations and their representatives,
<><>and that the Jewish state engages in harassment and negative treatment of Christians.
<><>We are also obligated to “warn Christians” in America
<><> that their billions of foreign aid tax dollars are being met with hostility,
<><>and that Christian tourists should reconsider their travels.”
“I’d still like to know Israel’s side, since, in just about every other case, they have a damn good reason for what they do.”
Totally agree. There is much more to this story. Or is it a fake?
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