(Andrew Friedman/TPS) Ma’aleh Adumim—Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee planted an olive tree overlooking the Judean Desert on the southeastern edge of Ma’aleh Adumim Tuesday, saying the tree would come to provide shade for a park in a planned neighborhood that Ma’aleh Adumim Mayor Benny Kashriel said would contain about 1,000 housing units. On a tour organized by the Judea, Samaria and Gaza Council, Huckabee also slammed last month’s U.N. Security Resolution condemning Israeli communities as “embarrassing,” and added hopes that incoming U.S. President Donald J. Trump moves the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

Backed by a red banner reading “Build Israel Great Again” just one day after the Jewish Home Knesset faction held its weekly meeting here in order to launch a campaign to annex the city, Huckabee took a selfie with Kashriel to show that Israeli “settlements” are not a group of tents on isolated hilltops, but rather established cities. He also said that visions of a Palestinian state—traditionally a cornerstone of U.S. policy in the Middle East—had to change.

“The idea that you are going to put two parties on the same piece of real estate when one of the parties doesn’t even believe that the other should even exist—that’s not a policy. That’s a fantasy,” Huckabee said.