Rebuttal to Trump on Israel

(JNS) - U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee urged Americans to recognize Israel's biblical heritage as a foundation of the United States, speaking at the opening of an international archaeology conference at the Herodium site in Judea and Samaria.

He said it is his job "to represent the importance of Israel to the United States," adding that "without Israel, without the Jewish foundation, there would not be an America. We owe our very existence to what happened in this land."

The remarks were delivered amid questions in Jerusalem about an agreement between Washington and Tehran announced b...