Praising President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Mike Huckabee as the new U.S. ambassador to Israel, former envoy David Friedman called it a “great” pick.
“I couldn’t be more excited about his pick. Obviously, he’s coming into a different period in the relationship than when I came in. When I came in, the relationship was challenged,” Friedman told Epoch TV’s “American Thought Leaders.”
“Israel had a very difficult time during the Obama years, and the goal was to fix that, and he’ll have the same general focus.”
In the aftermath of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel—the deadliest single-day anti-Semitic attack since the Holocaust— Friedman praised Huckabee’s support for Israel as “absolutely rock solid.”…