Huckabee to visit Shepherd Hotel

**Yala** · 08-14-2009, 12:45 AM

August 13, 2009

Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor who lost his GOP bid for the 2008 presidency, will attend a dinner at the Shepherd Hotel on Sunday during a trip to Israel, according to media reports. The Obama administration has objected to plans to build 20 apartments at the site, but Israel has asserted that Jews have the right to build in eastern Jerusalem.

Irving Moskowitz, an American philanthropist and activist, purchased the land on which the Shepherd Hotel sits in 1985. The land is located near an Israeli compound housing several government ministries.

The dinner, which also is to include some Jewish and Republican activists from the United States, is part of an Israel trip that will include Huckabee visits to the Jewish portion of Hebron and to Ma'aleh Adumim, the largest settlement in the West Bank. Ateret Cohanim, a religious Zionist yeshiva that also helps and encourages Jews to live in eastern Jerusalem, is sponsoring the trip. Moskowitz is a supporter of Ateret Cohanim.

Among those accompanying Huckabee will be New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a Brooklyn Democrat who told the Jerusalem Post that the trip is "an opportunity to shine the spotlight on Obama's policy in Jerusalem, which has just been a horror."

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**dayag** · 01-31-2011, 01:25 PM

...Later Huckabee visited the site of the Shepherd Hotel in Sheikh Jarrah. The hotel was demolished to make room for another Jewish neighborhood. He told reporters the US should be more concerned about Arabs building bombs than Jews building bedrooms...

"I don’t see why bedrooms for their children built by Jews on a hilltop in Samaria pose a threat to world peace," Huckabee told the committee. "It's the lack of construction that is irrational, not the opposite... Those who aim their rifles at Jewish babies are irrational; the danger is not the weapons, but the hatred behind the weapons."

"Why should Israel give any territory to people who don’t recognize its right to exist?" the likely Republican candidate asked...

source: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...021904,00.html