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Huckabee meets with Netanyahu to thank Israel for ‘unprecedented assistance’ in rescue of airman
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US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee is seen during an interview in Jerusalem, August 20, 2025. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)
US Ambassador Mike Huckabee meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to thank him on behalf of the American people “for unprecedented assistance to US Military & Intel agencies who conducted a historic rescue mission of our air crew in Iran,” the diplomat writes on X.
Huckabee says that American special forces carried out a “brilliant operation,” and that the IDF and the Mossad were “helpful partners in the mission.”
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