Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Tuesday he’s not sure there’s any value to the United Nations, after the United States abstained from a vote last week on a resolution condemning Israeli settlements.
“We provide most of the funding for the U.N. and it’s time for us to re-evaluate,” Mr. Huckabee, a former 2016 GOP presidential candidate, said on Fox Business Network. “I’m not sure there’s any value to the U.N. It’s a joke.”
“We ought to get jackhammers and we ought to jackhammer the whole thing off, float it into the East River, ask anybody who would like to host it to come pick it up, haul it off, and it’ll be a lot easier to park in Manhattan after we get rid of it,” Mr. Huckabee said in a separate appearance on Fox News.
“If I were Obama, I probably wouldn’t plan a vacation to Tel Aviv anytime soon,” Mr. Huckabee said on Fox Business Network.
“It certainly forever damages his legacy. His legacy is to embrace Iran — the biggest sponsor of terrorism in the world — and to reject Israel, the only democracy that exists in the entire Middle East,” said Mr. Huckabee, who has traveled to Israel on a fairly regular basis and is leaving for another trip there soon.
On Friday, the U.S. declined to veto a resolution from the U.N. Security Council in a move that critics saw as a slap at Israel. The resolution said Israel was violating international law by building settlements on territory Palestinians want as part of a future independent state.
The situation drew intense criticism from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and bipartisan criticism from U.S. lawmakers.
“This has been condemned by Democrats as well as Republicans. This transcends party,” Mr. Huckabee said on Fox Business Network.
• David Sherfinski can be reached at dsherfinski@washingtontimes.com.
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