Photos courtesy of Gage Skidmore and the National Archives and Records Administration. Images have been edited by the author. Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's August campaign trip to Israel challenged longstanding U.S. policy towards Israel and the Palestinian territories. Speaking at a press conference in Jerusalem, the former governor of Arkansas rejected the notion that Israel "occupied" the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank and that Israeli settlements in those territories were "illegal" under international law.

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