President Donald Trump is giving a signal in the Middle East that he will stand with Israel and not recoil when dealing with Hamas, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee told Newsmax on Tuesday.

“The most important thing we’re watching is that [the United States is] engaged and involved. Until Donald Trump was sworn in, there was a disengagement, and when we were engaged it was schizophrenic,” said Huckabee, Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to Israel, told “Wake Up America.”

“We never knew whether the American policy was steadfast with Israel, or kind of with Israel but telling them how they ought to prosecute the war and at what point they can go into certain cities and whether or not we were gong to withhold arms, which we did, by the way.”

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