Ambassador Mike Huckabee defends Israel loudly and proudly
Aside from a few personal knick-knacks and a new POTUS portrait, the American ambassador’s office in Arnona, Jerusalem, stays the same whichever party runs Washington. Same plain-vanilla decor, same bulletproof windows, same grouping of chairs where the incumbent ambassador hosts the incumbent Mishpacha journalist for what’s now a traditional chat.
So the surprise in store for visitors to Mike Huckabee’s inner sanctum isn’t the MAGA guitar that hangs over his display cabinet — gifted by his wife in testament to his political affiliations and penchant for music. It’s his budding mezuzah collection. Two to be precise — one on the door, one on his desk.
“That one’s a stone from Mount Ebal that they carved out and put the Shema inside,” says the evangelical ambassador of the smooth slab of Shomron rock. “The other one is in the shape of a B-2 bomber, made from the shrapnel of an Iranian ballistic missile. It’s a little big to put on the doorpost, which is why I’m going to keep it in the display box.”
That tale of two mezuzahs is what sets the twinkly-eyed 70-year-old former Arkansas governor, Fox News presenter, and Southern Baptist minister apart from the predecessors whose solemn portraits line the entrance to his office.
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