• 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.
		

• 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.