Speaking to reporters during a visit to the Western Wall on Friday, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee spoke about holding the position as an Evangelical Christian.
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00:00Well, it gives me an extraordinary sense of personal joy to have been named by the president
00:12as an evangelical Christian believer to take this post. And to be honest, I was a little
00:18concerned that maybe there would be some resistance to that on behalf of Israeli people
00:24and Jewish people. But what I found is that just the opposite. And many people, my Jewish friends
00:30have expressed this over and again, that if I were Jewish and came as ambassador, they'd say,
00:37well, of course, he supports Israel. He's Jewish. He doesn't have a choice. I say to them, I have a
00:44choice and I make my choice to support Israel and to show my friendship that has existed, by the way,
00:53for 52 years, from my very first trip here, which was in 1973, when I was a month shy of my 18th
01:01birthday. So I've seen you, obviously, Chris, probably several dozen of the times that I've
01:07been here. And it never grows old. I never get to the point where I don't learn something.
01:14I never get to the point where I don't experience something being in this very magnificent place.
01:20Yes. Yes.