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Last update - 00:04 01/01/2009
Mike Huckabee to attend gala at disputed East Jerusalem hotel
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Settlements, Israel News 

U.S. Republican Mike Huckabee, both former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate, will attend a formal dinner on Sunday at the contentious Shepherd Hotel in East Jerusalem.

The Obama administration has objected to Israeli plans for construction at the hotel, located in the heart of a Palestinian neighborhood.

U.S. President Barack Obama has pressed Israel to halt settlement activity as part of a bid to revive peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
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The U.S. has demanded that the hotel project be halted, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a cabinet meeting in July that "Israel will not agree to edicts of this kind in East Jerusalem."

Huckabee will be joined at the hotel dinner by over a hundred guests, including prominent Jewish and Republican activists from the United States.

Huckabee is also planning to visit the Jewish section of Hebron, Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, and Ma'aleh Adumim, the largest settlement in the West Bank.

Huckabee's trip is sponsored by Ateret Cohanim, an organization that runs a religious-Zionist Yeshiva in East Jerusalem, and works to encourage Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem.

Huckabee, who ran for the Republican party's nomination for the 2008 presidential election, is seen as an early front-runner to win the party's nomination in 2012.

The Shepherd Hotel was purchased by American Jewish tycoon Irving Moskowitz in 1985 for $1 million. Moskowitz, an influential supporter of Ateret Cohanim and heightened Israeli settlement in East Jerusalem, plans to tear down the hotel and build housing units for Jewish Israelis in its place.

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      4.   Guess that he lost the Meretz, Hammas and EU votes 00:44  |  Binyamin Dissen 01/01/09
      5.   Grave Danger in Hebron visit? 00:47  |  Rabbi Jonathan 01/01/09
      6.   Please keep him....you deserve that moron 00:51  |  jc 01/01/09
      7.   Huckabee 00:14  |  WHG 01/01/09
      8.   Mike Huckabee, and 15 minutes of fame 00:26  |  Mark Lincoln 01/01/09
      9.   Huckabee interested in himself, not Israel. sad indeed. 00:35  |  Jonathan David 01/01/09
      10.   Huckster and the Jews 00:42  |  BDF 01/01/09
      11.   Let us not forget... 00:16  |  Mike 01/01/09
      12.   Republicans Just Looking For an Issue. 00:23  |  Ed 01/01/09
      13.   Mike, if you are listening 00:31  |  Gilad 01/01/09
      14.   More Israel supporters needed 00:32  |  Brod 01/01/09
      15.   A Closer Look 00:33  |  Confused 01/01/09
      16.   Thank you Huckabee for standing up to Meretz, U.N. EU and Obama 00:08  |  Ken Jurist 01/01/09
      17.   Christian Zionist Huckabee images Pat Robertson`s nemesis role 00:09  |  Ivar 01/01/09
      18.   To all leftists who oppose Huckabee going to Jerusalem Hotel. 00:12  |  David Stoler 01/01/09
      19.   While the (D) reformed act against Israel 00:18  |  Binyamin Dissen 01/01/09
      20.   #6 JC; USA has more Morons.watch Obamas vaneer peel of by Dec.25 00:39  |  Haham me Bat yam 01/01/09
      21.   Huckabee, the friendly racist from Arkansas..... 00:25  |  Swiss (Dino) 01/01/09
      22.   Obama & his agenda - 1245 days left......... 00:32  |  Pssd off American. 01/01/09
      23.   Huckabee - How Pathetic One Can Be 00:52  |  Bill 01/01/09
      24.   Huckabee is a national disgrace 00:55  |  John Q. Public 01/01/09
      25.   No friend of Jews 00:23  |  Dave Duncan 01/01/09
      26.   To david #18.......Careful with your adjectives 00:44  |  BDF 01/01/09
      27.   Dave Duncan, He May Not Be A Friend To The Jews 00:00  |  Yaakov Sullivan 01/01/09
      28.   Mike Huckabee 00:04  |  Harold 01/01/09
      29.   #27 00:12  |  Harold 01/01/09
      30.   An American civics lesson for #24 "JQ Public" - and Obama 00:17  |  Dr. L. Brnd 01/01/09
      31.   Harold 00:22  |  Brod 01/01/09
      32.   Dr L Brandt on Obama, Huckabee and moskowitz 00:23  |  Yaakov Sullivan 01/01/09
      33.   john Q public 00:25  |  Connie 01/01/09
      34.   Terrific ally, the Christinan religious right 00:25  |  david 01/01/09
      35.   Dr Bernd--you are simply lying, making up a new anti-Obama smear 00:46  |  Dolphin 01/01/09
      36.   Klansman #32 "Yaakov" Sullivan comes out of the closet! 00:49  |  Dr. L. Brnd 01/01/09
      37.   #22 you`re off by 4 years 00:36  |  Dolphin 01/01/09
      38.   Haaretz, can you clear this up? 00:41  |  dan 01/01/09
      39.   Rev. Huckabee 00:43  |  Anthony 01/01/09
      40.   He should ask what they think of Christians and Jesus 00:09  |  Manity 01/01/09
      41.   Thank you Huckabee, you are a mench 00:21  |  AlexK 01/01/09
      42.   That`s great company you`re keeping Israel... 00:24  |  peacelover 01/01/09
      43.   #8 Mark Lincoln, thx for the info 00:04  |  Mark B. 01/01/09
      44.   Yaakov Sullivan...you should have change your name from 00:28  |  Maria 01/01/09
      45.   Manity...most Palestinian Christian 00:30  |  Maria 01/01/09
      46.   Mark B. he is more than that 00:31  |  Mark Lincoln 01/01/09
      47.   Swiss Dino...we`re all against Muslim terrorists,but not you? 00:33  |  Maria 01/01/09
      48.   Israel needs all the friends it can get 00:15  |  Lynn 01/01/09
      49.   This is not in the interest of Peace for Israel or Anyone 00:54  |  John Richter 01/01/09
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