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Huckabee, Orthodox group, at Knesset

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Gov. Mike Huckabee headlined an Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce symposium at the Knesset in Jerusalem on Tuesday.

A dozen MKs attended the special Knesset session on the first day of a U.S.-Israel Business Alliance mission, whose leaders included Long Islanders.

Huckabee delivered an impassioned speech highlighting the Biblical and historical connection between the land of Israel and the Jewish people, and deriding recent anti-Israel actions of the U.N. and Obama administration.

Huckabee told an alliance dinner at the King David Hotel on Wednesday night that Israel does not “occupy” Judea and Samaria. “They don’t occupy, because they’ve owned it,” he said. “The only occupiers have been the Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Turks, the Brits.”