US Ambassador Mike Huckabee meets with Gadi Eisenkot over West Bank, Gaza, settler violence

Jerusalem Post/Israel NewsAccording to KAN, a separate meeting between Huckabee and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was canceled at the last minute and has yet to be rescheduled.Follow us on GoogleUS Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee (left) and Yashar party chairman and former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot (right).(photo credit: John Wessels / AFP via Getty Images, YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90)OCTOBER 15, 2026 00:33Updated: OCTOBER 15, 2026 00:57US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee met with Yashar party chairman and former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot to discuss a myriad of security topics, KAN News reported on Wednesday.The meeting, confirmed to The Jerusalem Post by a source with knowledge of the matter, covered tensions in the West Bank, settler violence, and the situation in the Gaza Strip.The source also told the Post that the agenda included many other topics, though the Yashar party declined to comment on the meeting after KAN requested it.A source told KAN that the meeting was initially discreet, having only been publicized on Wednesday, with only Huckabee and Eisenkot known to have participated.Israeli soldiers inspect the damage following an attack by Israeli settlers in the village of Sarra, near the West Bank city of Nablus, July 24, 2026. (credit: STR)Separate Netanyahu-Huckabee meeting canceled at last minuteAccording to KAN, a separate meeting between Huckabee and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was canceled at the last minute and has yet to be rescheduled, with the US ambassador noting that the meeting was not security-related."It will be rescheduled when the schedule is convenient," said Huckabee, according to the KAN source. "Any suggestion that this is anything other than a very cordial social event with our wives would be ridiculous and patently false."Follow us on Google