Huckabee condemns efforts to erase Jewish history to the Holy Land as ‘absurd’

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee stressed the value of acknowledging the Jewish people's historical transportation to the Land of Israel, describing planetary efforts to contradict this nexus arsenic "absurd."

"First of all, archeology is simply a regular reminder of the transportation betwixt this onshore and the Jewish radical going each the mode backmost to 3,500 to 3,800 years, whether it’s Shilo, whether it's Jerusalem," Huckabee told Fox News Digital successful an exclusive interrogation successful Jerusalem connected Thursday.

His comments came arsenic Jews worldwide observe Shavuot, the biblical vacation commemorating God's giving of the Torah to Moses and the Israelites astatine Mount Sinai.

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Visitors get astatine Sebastia National Park successful Samaria. Sebastia was the Israelite kingdom during the reigns of Omri and Ahab. (Hillel Maeir/TPS-IL)

Huckabee pointed to archaeological grounds arsenic beardown enactment for the biblical account. "The excavations astatine the City of David unsocial are a validation of the biblical grounds of what truly did hap here. Sometimes radical connected the far-left emotion to accidental 'follow the science, travel the science,' and I would accidental to them, arsenic it relates to the onshore and the connections to the Jewish people, travel the subject of archaeology."

The remarks travel amid an ongoing diplomatic warfare by the Palestinian Authority — which was granted non-member perceiver authorities presumption astatine the United Nations successful 2012 — to revise humanities narratives successful planetary forums wherever anti-Israel majorities are common.

For example, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization successful 2016 registered the Cave of the Patriarchs — the burial tract of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and their wives Sarah, Rebecca and Leah, located successful Hebron—under the sanction of the "State of Palestine" connected its "List of World Heritage successful Danger."

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The Cave of the Patriarchs, besides known arsenic the Cave of Machpelah. The tract is the burial spot of Patriarchs and Matriarchs of the Jewish people, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Leah. (Photo by Yishai Gilad/TPS)

In a abstracted move, the U.N. General Assembly passed a non-binding solution successful 2021 referring to the Temple Mount — Judaism’s holiest site, located successful Jerusalem but beyond the 1967 borders — solely by its Islamic name, "Haram al-Sharif."

"For 20 years, I person been pushing backmost against an effort from the PA, Hamas, European-funded anti-Israel NGOs, and the U.N. to effort and forestall excavations from coming to life," said Doron Spielman, writer of the caller publication "When the Stones Speak: The Remarkable Discovery of the City of David and What Israel's Enemies Don't Want You to Know," a publication that shows the humanities and indigenous connection to the Holy Land of the Jews.

"There are thousands of discoveries that beryllium the transportation of the Jewish radical to the biblical heartland, but successful peculiar the clay seal impressions of Yehuchal—the lad of Shelemiah—and Gedaliah—the lad of Pashur—that were recovered astatine the tract believed to beryllium King David’s palace," explained Spielman. "They are straight quoted successful the Bible arsenic having attempted to termination the prophet Jeremiah."

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee places a enactment successful the Western Wall arsenic Holy Week and Passover travel to a close. (@USAmbIsrael/X)

In 2008, Israeli archaeologist Eilat Mazar revealed the find of a clay seal impression, oregon bulla, bearing the sanction Gedaliah, lad of Pashhur. The artifact was unearthed during a excavation successful the City of David, located conscionable southbound of the Temple Mount successful Jerusalem. The bulla was recovered adjacent to where, successful 2005, a akin seal inscribed with the sanction Yehuchal had been discovered.

Both individuals are known from the book arsenic officials who served nether King Zedekiah, the last monarch of the Kingdom of Judah earlier the Babylonian demolition of Jerusalem and the First Temple successful 587 B.C.

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"The bullas tin beryllium seen, they are connected show astatine the Israel Museum and successful traveling exhibitions. They person gone from 1 broadside of the satellite to the different due to the fact that the Palestinians created a communicative attempting to erase immoderate transportation betwixt Jews, and by hold Christians, to the Land of Israel," continued Spielman.

Huckabee emphasized that archaeological discoveries proceed to affirm the scriptural communicative connecting the Jewish radical to the land.

A representation taken connected October 12, 2017 shows the logo of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization office successful Paris. (JACQUES DEMARTHON/AFP via Getty Images)

"Every clip immoderate caller find is unearthed it validates the biblical record, truthful the impervious is beauteous beardown that that transportation is not thing that goes backmost to 1948 oregon 1917 the Balfour Declaration - it goes each the mode backmost to the clip of Abraham. That’s beauteous acold back," helium said.

For his part, Spielman voiced interest that the connection isn’t resonating with the mainstream, peculiarly among younger generations.

"On campuses successful the U.S., radical are chanting 'From the River to the Sea,' and calling the Jews colonizers," helium said, successful notation to the mantra calling for the "liberation" of "Palestine" done the elimination of Israel.

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"This look comes from radical taught to judge that the Jews person nary transportation to the Land of Israel, and I’m fearful due to the fact that it leads to violence. When radical travel to erase your history, they are connected their mode to trying to erase you arsenic a nation.

"We person seen it earlier and if we bash not halt the trend, it volition hap again," helium added.