Over the weekend, Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, called for an apology.
“This rhetoric, while commonplace in today’s Republican presidential primary, has no place in American politics,” Wasserman Schultz said in a statement. \"Cavalier analogies to the Holocaust are unacceptable. Mike Huckabee must apologize to the Jewish community and to the American people for this grossly irresponsible statement.”
But Huckabee, an ordained Baptist minister who travels frequently to Israel and has an affinity for the country, is not backing down.
Soon after Wasserman Schultz tweeted a link to her statement Sunday afternoon, Huckabee posted an image on Facebook and Twitter that juxtaposed the Israeli and Iranian flags behind the words, “The Iran nuclear deal is marching the Israelis to the door of the oven.”
He released the following statement after President Obama's comments:\"What's 'ridiculous and sad' is that President Obama does not take Iran's repeated threats seriously. For decades, Iranian leaders have pledged to 'destroy,' 'annihilate,' and 'wipe Israel off the map' with a 'big Holocaust.' 'Never again' will be the policy of my administration and I will stand with our ally Israel to prevent the terrorists in Tehran from achieving their own stated goal of another Holocaust.\"
He subsequently released a video responding to Obama and Clinton's comments, which he posted on Twitter:
Huckabee, who in May announced he is running for president, has frequently broadcast his opposition to the agreement reached earlier this month.
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