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U.S. ambassador Mike Huckabee causes uproar by claiming Israel has a right to much of the Middle East
CNBC ^ | FEB 21 2026 11:00 AM EST | AP

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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1 posted on 02/21/2026 11:31:00 AM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle

The Bible agrees with him. Unfortunately, they won’t get their land until Jesus comes back.


2 posted on 02/21/2026 11:32:46 AM PST by roving
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To: Golden Eagle

Tucker is traitor.


3 posted on 02/21/2026 11:34:36 AM PST by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
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To: willk

Huckabee is too low IQ to gracefully handle Tucker’s trick question.


4 posted on 02/21/2026 11:36:04 AM PST by nwrep
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To: Golden Eagle

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.


5 posted on 02/21/2026 11:37:10 AM PST by Miami Rebel
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To: Golden Eagle

The cultists here agree with him.

Taken in easily.


6 posted on 02/21/2026 11:39:25 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Golden Eagle

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.


7 posted on 02/21/2026 11:41:56 AM PST by Parmy
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To: Golden Eagle

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.


8 posted on 02/21/2026 11:41:58 AM PST by PGR88
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To: willk

“ 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.


9 posted on 02/21/2026 11:43:38 AM PST by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et des phrases)
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To: nwrep
Huckabee is too low IQ to gracefully handle Tucker’s trick question.

For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks

Luke 6:45

10 posted on 02/21/2026 11:44:45 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Golden Eagle

Fodder for anti semites.


11 posted on 02/21/2026 11:44:48 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn... )
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To: Golden Eagle

Fodder for anti semites.


12 posted on 02/21/2026 11:44:48 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn... )
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To: PGR88
Sounds like Huckabee has “gone local.”

Yup. Although I heard the expression as "gone native".

13 posted on 02/21/2026 11:46:29 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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To: Golden Eagle

Love Mike


14 posted on 02/21/2026 11:49:06 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: PGR88

Israel was given granted the land grant listed as m the Bible, but not yet.


15 posted on 02/21/2026 11:58:36 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WILLL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: Golden Eagle

Tucker is an absolute tension hore and is best ignored.


16 posted on 02/21/2026 12:01:18 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WILLL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: Miami Rebel

You are as phony as Tucker Carlson, lying to yourself and everyone else!


17 posted on 02/21/2026 12:02:19 PM PST by .30Carbine
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To: Jim Noble
Tucker is an American. He’s not an Israeli. Treason is betrayal of something to which you owe loyalty.


18 posted on 02/21/2026 12:16:52 PM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera))
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To: Golden Eagle

Quote-Huckabee responded: “It would be fine if they took it all.

Shaking up the BOARD OF PEACE...ahem


19 posted on 02/21/2026 12:17:42 PM PST by birg
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To: roving

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.


20 posted on 02/21/2026 12:17:48 PM PST by Glad2bnuts
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