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• In Mitt Romney's opinion amidst the many critical challenges
that America faces today, the threat of violent and radical Jihad
and the threat of nuclear proliferation stand at the top.
• Romney cites the former President Jimmy Carter's view with
regard to bringing peace to the Holy Land and thinks the
opposite. According to him, it is only helping to prevent terror
and bloodshed and violence.
• Romney quotes. "State taxpayers should not be providing
special treatment to an individual who supports violent jihad and
the destruction of Israel."
• Romney fears that radical Islam has one goal; to replace all
Islamic states in the world under one caliphate and convert the
non-believers of Islam forcibly, if necessary, to Islam. He says
that this plan is more irrational than the Nazi Germany policies
of the 1930s and Stalin?s Cold War or the 1940s.
• Mitt Romney has committed that he would defeat the jihadists
all around the world. Most of his speeches however focus on
restricting Iran rather than making decisions to resolve the
tension between Israel and Palestine.
• Romney requested the Arab states to stop providing weapons
and financial support to Hezbollah and Hamas and instead to put
pressure on the Palestinians to "drop terrorism and recognize
Israel's right to exist."
• Mitt Romney strongly supports the security wall that divides
Israel from the West Bank.
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• Mike Huckabee has mentioned that he's visited Israel nine
times. He says that there is one true ally in the Middle East -
and that's Israel, a tiny but vulnerable nation.
• It is understood that Mike Huckabee's idea for frequently
visiting Israel was more because religious beliefs than issues of
the US national security.
• Mike Huckabee's aides mentioned once that he did not lead
government delegations but church groups when he visited Israel
and his itineraries were more tailored to visits to religious
sites.
• Huckabee's stand on foreign policy is twofold; get tough on
terrorists and stand strong with Israel.
• During the 2008 campaign Huckabee stated, "as president, I
will always ensure that Israel has access to the state-of-the-art
weapons and technology she needs to defend herself from those who
seek her annihilation."
• Huckabee maintains that his foreign trips to Israel were for
better presidential preparation and said, "if you make a trip
overseas, you have a better perspective of the world."
• When he talks about his faith he places it in a social
justice and economic populism context rather than a foreign
policy.
• He is for putting an end to hostility towards the Israeli
people and giving them space to move around thus providing them
with a permanent peace setup rather than temporary peace followed
by a long-term disaster.
• Huckabee feels there could be a two-state solution only when
there is guarantee of concessions and security from the nations
that surround Israel.
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