Former U.S. Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee walks by olive trees in the Givot Olam settlement outpost in the West Bank

Former U.S. Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee visits the illegal Israeli West Bank settlement outpost Givot Olam, 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/Debbie Hill