(June 21, 2026 \/ JNS)\n <\/p>\n
Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee reaffirmed America\u2019s \u201cunbreakable bond\u201d with Israel and warned that Iran \u201cwill never have a nuclear weapon,\u201d speaking during a keynote address at the JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Introduced by JNS CEO and Jerusalem Bureau Chief Alex Traiman, Huckabee opened his remarks by reminding the audience that his first speech as a new ambassador last year was at the inaugural JNS Policy Summit. He joked that he checked Trump\u2019s social media \u201cto make sure that this isn\u2019t my last speech.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking to policymakers, journalists and supporters of the Jewish state, the former governor of Arkansas sought to ease concerns about U.S.-Israel ties, emphasizing that President Donald Trump remains firmly committed to the Jewish state\u2019s security and maintains a close relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe one thing that I\u2019ve always heard him say, always, and I\u2019ve always seen him do, is that America has an unbreakable bond with the State of Israel, and I trust that he means what he says,\u201d Huckabee said of Trump, adding that the president has been consistent in pledging to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear capabilities and to curb its support for regional proxies, including Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis.<\/p>\n
Huckabee pointed to past Trump administration decisions, including recognizing Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital, moving the U.S. embassy to the city and recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, as evidence of that commitment.<\/p>\n
Addressing the threat from the Islamic Republic of Iran, Huckabee that the best way to counter Tehran\u2019s regional terror proxies is to \u201cturn off the spigot at the source.\u201d<\/p>\n
Huckabee recalled being in Washington recently and being confronted by \u201cpro-Hamas crazy people,\u201d and after exiting the situation, saying, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to get out of this crazy town and get back to Jerusalem where I feel safe.\u201d<\/p>\n
He called Israel\u2019s capital a \u201cremarkable city\u201d that he is \u201cgrateful\u201d to live in as he represents the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(June 21, 2026 \/ JNS) Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee reaffirmed America\u2019s \u201cunbreakable bond\u201d with Israel and warned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-504140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}