Former U.S. Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee talks to an Israeli settler in the Israeli settlement Beit El in the West Bank, August 18, 2009. Huckabee is on a three day visit to Israeli and the West Bank as the honored guest of the right-wing religious settler group Ateret Cohanim. He said today that he endorses Israeli settlements in the West Bank and is against the establishment of a Palestinian state. UPI Photo/Debbie Hill