Huckabee presents his role in Israel as securing God’s blessing for America by ensuring that the US “blesses Israel”. This is where theology loses its ethics and where diplomacy loses its moral compass. A faith that invokes God while refusing to hear the cries of those crushed in God’s name betrays its own message. At a moment when the US claims to seek stability and peace in the Middle East, such theology does the opposite. It undermines moral credibility, weakens diplomacy, and deepens the suffering of those already living under its consequences.

Amen. And sane Judaism acknowledges being kind to strangers, not helping the needy, among other basic decency.