A US official close to the White House on Wednesday participated in laying ceremonial stones for a new neighborhood at a Jewish settlement in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank and voiced hope to buy a “holiday home” there.
According to different Israeli news reports the US official is Mike Huckabee the former governor of Arkansas and whose daughter Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the White House press secretary.
The former governor laid bricks and spread cement with other Israeli officials Wednesday for the construction of new housing units in the illegal settlement of Efrat.
In a speech during the ceremony Huckabee expressed his willingness to “purchase a holiday home” there.
Huckabee also said that president Donald Trump would have been pleased to join him describing Trump as a builder who loves to see construction sites.
