Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be the U.S. ambassador to Israel, told Newsmax on Monday about his expectations for the U.S.’s relationship with the Jewish state should he be confirmed, as expected, by the Senate.

“Until I get confirmed, it would be a little presumptuous for me to say, ‘Here’s what I plan to do, because as an ambassador, the main job is to make sure you carry out the president’s policies,” Huckabee told “Finnerty.” “In this case, I’m going to be very proud to carry out [Trump’s] policies because what we had under Donald Trump in his first four years was absolutely just breathtaking.

“We saw him move the [U.S.] embassy to Jerusalem — something that every president, Democrat and Republican, had promised, but no one ever delivered until he did it. He recognized the Golan Heights; recognized Jerusalem as the ancient forever and indigenous capital for the Jewish state; created the Abraham Accords, which in itself should have earned him a Nobel [Peace] Prize.”

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