Even Israeli diplomats who oppose the Iran deal, as well as American Jewish organizations, have condemned Huckabee’s comments as wildly inappropriate and a trivializing of the so-called “final solution” genocide.
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Obama also responded, calling Huckabee’s statements “part of a general pattern that we’ve seen that would be considered ridiculous if it weren’t so sad”.
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is in hot water for refusing to apologize for controversial comments he made on President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran.
Huckabee and other GOP presidential candidates have pledged to undo the deal, which the United States and five other world powers struck with Iran this month after weeks of negotiations in Vienna.
Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to Washington, said in an interview with USA Today’s Capital Download programme that while Israel had a “very serious disagreement” with the Obama administration over the Iranian issue, Huckabee’s remarks were inappropriate. How many times will Iran’s leaders call for Israel’s annihilation before Hillary wakes up to this existential threat?
Obama suggested the Republican presidential candidates might be trying to push real estate mogul Donald Trump out of the headlines.
Congressional Republicans and Israeli government officials said the agreement – in which the U.S. and allies end sanctions on Iran as it gives up the means to make nuclear weapons – will actually smooth Iran’s path to nuclear weapons. I’m not sure why he felt compelled to say it. Having said that, this is a bad deal.
US President Barack Obama face stern criticism Monday to the tone of the US presidential campaign, saying that American voters deserve better than that.
Unprompted, the president also brought up how Trump had dismissed Arizona Sen.
One of the billionaire mogul’s most eye-catching attacks was on John McCain, when he questioned the Republican senator’s status as a “war hero” because he was captured during the Vietnam war.
Shortly after Obama made his criticism in Ethiopia, Huckabee fired back at the president. Clinton noted she had a cordial relationship with the former Arkansas governor, but said the remarks should be “repudiated by every person of good faith”.
“That requires on both sides, Democratic and Republican, a sense of seriousness and decorum and honesty”.
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“That arises out of a culture where those kinds of outrageous attacks have become far too commonplace and get circulated nonstop”, President Obama said.
