Published on November 14, 2024 at 07:29. / Modified on November 14, 2024 at 12:51.
Nominations designed like fireworks! Seeking both to strike American public opinion and to bypass the Senate which is still on vacation, Donald Trump is increasing the number of announcements about the team that will surround him at the White House from January 20. A particularity: many of these appointments directly concern the Middle East and the Israeli ally. “A new sheriff has arrived in town,” summed up Mike Huckabee, one of the new nominees, speaking of his leader.
Mike Huckabee? This former governor of Arkansas, appointed Tuesday evening as the new American ambassador to Israel, already set the tone the next day, by suggesting that Israel could undoubtedly “extend its sovereignty” to the entire Palestinian territory during Donald’s mandate Trump. Candidate in the Republican presidential primary, in 2008 then briefly in 2016, Huckabee is a political revenant. He has always represented the conservative wing of his party, but this former Baptist pastor is best known as a figure among American evangelicals. “Faith, work, family”: to this triptych, the Republican has always added the absolute defense of Israel, a country where he claims to have visited at least “a hundred times”.
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