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Posted on 08/22/2026 8:09:01 AM PDT by Angelino97
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has warned militant Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank not to steal property owned by Palestinian Americans, describing such behavior as "a violation of God's law".
Huckabee, a Baptist minister and longtime supporter of Israel's settlements, told Reuters in an interview that settlers found to have taken part in a siege of homes in the West Bank village of Qusra, including one belonging to Palestinian American Loui Ridi, could be punished with U.S. sanctions.
Israeli settlers began encircling homes in Qusra on August 9, in what rights groups said was an attempt to seize privately owned Palestinian land. The case has drawn international condemnation.
Israel's military has deployed dozens of troops to the area and has since pushed the settlers back from the homes. But they remain nearby and residents including Ridi say they fear the settlers will encroach on their properties again once those troops pull back.
Asked what message U.S. President Donald Trump's administration had for settlers considering taking homes or land in the West Bank owned by Palestinian Americans, Huckabee, who last week denounced the perpetrators as "Israeli terrorists", referred to Jewish and Christian scripture.
"I think the message is bigger than just even the Trump administration. It's a message of basic civility and civilized behavior," Huckabee told Reuters in Jerusalem. "You don't take something that doesn't belong to you."...
Citing the Ten Commandments, Huckabee said: "Thou shalt not steal" and that people should neither take nor "covet" - or "desire" - what belongs to others.
"If someone owns the land and they own their house, then having someone come and take it over and scare the family away from it, that's a violation, not just of man's law. That's a violation of God's law," said Huckabee
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Good for Mike Huckabee - just because you’re opponents are crazy doesn’t give anyone the right to steal from them... Let’s keep it clean guys.
the US envoy needs to sign over his home to the local native population of America then.
“Thou shalt not steal”
make the case, Mike, for how Israel is stealing land from a fake people #1 and how this is a violation of God’s gift to the Jewish people out of his promise
Moreover, the historical ownership of a nation called Israel
I’ll wait.
you are a good man but, I look forward to crushing your viewpoint
What? Explain please
It’s simple. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. And theft is also bad.
A man has title to his property.
Trespassers are violating his property rights, coveting his property, and verging on theft.
Case closed.
Now, if you want to argue the title is invalid because the dirt belongs to Israel, then Americans should surrender their homes to the Indians.
In America, the settler would be shot dead and the DA would shake the property owner’s hand.
There’s no such thing as a Palestinian let alone a Palestinian American.
“To the victor belongs the spoils”
America was conquered, taken from the native locals and the British.
Native Americans conquered each other and took territories from each other and enslaved them as well as did every other cultural groups on earth. Even the animal kingdom claims territories until some animal bigger and better takes it from them.
It’s what we do.
1. Even if the Palestinians are a "fake people" (aliens, foreigners, whatever)...
Leviticus 19:34
The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
2. Even if God had promised the land to the Israelites, His promise was conditioned on their keeping the law. Which, as Peter says, they never did.
Acts 15:10
Now therefore why are you putting God to the test by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?
They really ought to have international peacekeepers enforcing the zones in the West Bank.
In the case of nomadic tribes who do not make any permanent additions to the land, applying the term “land ownership” is debatable.
By that logic, there is no evil in international conflicts, only strength.
By that logic, neither Israel or Hamas are evil, neither Iran or the U.S., neither Hitler or Stalin or Churchill. Everyone is free to grab what they can, kill who they will, and keep what they take for so long as they can hold onto it.
I don't think you really believe that. Rather, it's what people say when they have no moral arguments for their side.
Huckabee said only a tiny minority of settlers 300 to 400 hundred out of 1/2 million settlers are engaged in this.
Huckabee stated that individual settlers who took part in seizing or besieging properties—including a home belonging to Palestinian-American Loui Ridi—could face U.S. sanctions or travel bans.
So, according to you, we are wrong for deporting Illegals. That’s bull
“Though the earth, and all inferiour creatures, be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person: this nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided, and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property. It being by him removed from the common state nature hath placed it in, it hath by this labour something annexed to it, that excludes the common right of other men. For this labour being the unquestionable property of the labourer, no man but he can have a right to what that is once joined to, at least where there is enough, and as good, left in common for others.”
— John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, § 27
I’m not arguing that might makes right. Shooting up a Lenni Lenape reservation in the 1700s is a bad thing.
But it is likely that citizens in the new world mixed their labor with unimproved land near Philadelphia and took it out of the state that nature hath provided.
Same thing in the article. This isn’t a Jewish or Palestinian or Hamas or whoever issue. This is straight property rights.
Shooting up a Lenni Lenape reservation in the 1700s is a bad thing.
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mostly because they had a habit of stealing children
If he is going to say to Israeli settlers, not to take Palestinians’ land.
He needs to also be advocating giving back the land that was stolen from the American Indians.
The two are not connected... what are you really supporting here?
Which American Indians?
The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.
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