Huckabee in ‘seething rage’ over US abstaining on Israel vote

Mike Huckabee is in a “seething rage” over the Obama administration’s decision not to veto a United Nations resolution Friday demanding an end to Israeli settlements.

“This is about right and wrong. This is about evil [and] good. This is such a clear-cut issue. And I am just beyond, in a seething rage, over what this administration has done in its last days,” the former Arkansas governor said in an interview with Fox News on Saturday.

“If you are going to do this do it up front. But to do it in such a cowardly way, just as you are leaving office — basically to say to the world ‘here is one more for you, good luck with it,'” he added.

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The former Republican presidential candidate argued that U.S. silence on the matter and the refusal of the Obama administration to speak out against the resolution is a sign of agreement with the U.N.

“The U.S. had an abstained vote. That is silence, and that is agreeing with the idiotic, dangerous and disturbing position that the U.N. took based on a resolution from four nations,” he said.

Huckabee also remarked on the current U.S. policy toward Israel, arguing that the two-state solution is “never gonna work.”

“First of all the policy we’ve had is boneheaded. It’s a ridiculous policy that we don’t apply to any other nation on earth to tell them that if someone attacks you, and you attack back, and defend your country and you end up getting more land — but you are supposed to give that up and let your enemies get even closer to you, you know that’s absurd,” he said.

“The two-state solution is no solution, it’s never gonna work and I know it’s been our policy … and the fact is the Palestinians have no intention of ever coming to a peace accord,” he added.

The U.N. Security Council on Friday successfully passed a resolution that demands an immediate stop to Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

The Obama administration received widespread backlash for refusing to use its veto power to strike down the resolution, breaking from a longstanding policy of shielding the Middle East ally from U.N. reproaches.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Saturday pledged to propose a measure to cut U.S. funding to the United Nations unless it repeals the anti-Israeli resolution.

President-elect Donald Trump also promised a change in policy toward the U.N. following Friday’s vote, tweeting that “things will be different” after he takes office.