Posted on 02/21/2026 11:30:59 AM PST by Golden Eagle
Arab and Muslim nations on Saturday sharply condemned comments by the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who said Israel has a right to much of the Middle East.
Huckabee made the comments in an interview with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson that aired Friday. Carlson said that according to the Bible, the descendants of Abraham would receive land that today would include essentially the entire Middle East, and asked Huckabee if Israel had a right to that land.
Huckabee responded: “It would be fine if they took it all.” Huckabee added, however, that Israel was not looking to expand its territory and has a right to security in the land it legitimately holds.
Carlson pressed Huckabee about his interpretation of Bible verses from the book of Genesis, where he said God promised Abraham and his descendants land from the Nile to the Euphrates.
“That would be the Levant, so that would be Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon. It would also be big parts of Saudi Arabia and Iraq,” Carlson said.
Huckabee replied: “Not sure we’d go that far. I mean, it would be a big piece of land.”
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The Bible agrees with him. Unfortunately, they won’t get their land until Jesus comes back.
Tucker is traitor.
Huckabee is too low IQ to gracefully handle Tucker’s trick question.
What an idiot to weigh in on biblical pronouncements and prophesies as a US official entrusted with protecting our geopolitical interests.
I am 100% Zionist, but Huckabee has left the reservation and made the diplomatic burden of other ambassadors in the region markedly more difficult.
The cultists here agree with him.
Taken in easily.
Regardless of whether Carlson is right or wrong, Huckabee needs to be a diplomat. He is representing the United States. If he wants to represent Israel, then he needs to change jobs.
Sounds like Huckabee has “gone local.”
My Uncle, who was career State Department and political chief in various SE Asian countries in the 1960s and 1970s, said it was always a concern when high level staff “went local” and started identifying more with the interests of their host country, and than with the interests of the United States.
“ Tucker is traitor.”
Tucker is an American. He’s not an Israeli. Treason is betrayal of something to which you owe loyalty.
Don’t see how that works here.
For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks
Luke 6:45
Fodder for anti semites.
Fodder for anti semites.
Yup. Although I heard the expression as "gone native".
Love Mike
Israel was given granted the land grant listed as m the Bible, but not yet.
Tucker is an absolute tension hore and is best ignored.
You are as phony as Tucker Carlson, lying to yourself and everyone else!
Quote-Huckabee responded: “It would be fine if they took it all.
Shaking up the BOARD OF PEACE...ahem
Our Creator we call God, properly known to me as Iah asha Iah, or YHVH, is not a racist. If you believe in Christ as Lord and Savior, YOU are now the people of the promise. Those who call themselves that, have been cut off and given a chance to repent and join with the rest of Christendom. Until they do, they are nothing but any other group of people. They were taken from the land, because they rejected The Messiah. It is not our job to help them get it all back.
There is only one way to Salvation, and the method they are counting on is no longer in play. One God, One Path.
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