U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee Says Israel Is Entitled to Entire Middle East: 'It Would Be Fine If They Took It All'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Feb 20th, 2026, 7:18 pm


U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said Israel would be “fine” to take control of territory stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates during a tense exchange with Tucker Carlson as the host grilled him on his biblical “justification” for the country’s territory.

Speaking on The Tucker Carlson Show on Friday, Huckabee was pressed repeatedly on the biblical boundaries he cited as divinely promised to the Jewish people as the host asked him “what land” specifically he was talking about, noting the remit in the biblical book of Genesis is greater than the borders of modern-day Israel.

Such a border is alluded to in the expansionist idea of a “Greater Israel,” an ambition by some understood to encompass land across several modern states, including parts of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq, as well as Palestinian territories.

Midway through the interview, as Huckabee accused Carlson of drawing the conversation away from Christian Zionism, the host said, “You have said it three times that God gave this land to this people and so it is entirely fair for me with respect to ask what land are you talking about because I just read Genesis 15, as I have many times, and that land I think it says from the Nile to the Euphrates, which is once again basically the entire Middle East.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/u-s-ambassador-mike-huckabee-says-israel-is-entitled-to-entire-middle-east-it-would-be-fine-if-they-took-it-all/

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Radicals like Huckleberry don't care about "Israel" or "Judaism". They only care about converting everyone to their brand of "Xtianity" and that includes the Jews.

[Lovie777]

1. Wrong answer................

[ForgoTheConsequence]

2. but "from the river to the sea" will get you expelled, deported, and put on a watchlist...

[LymphocyteLover]

11. But this is the RIGHT "from the river to the sea" from the RIGHT people-- big difference!

(sarcasm)

[everyonematters]

3. And how many people would have to be exterminated for that to happen?

[Lonestarblue]

10. Only about 8 million. That's Israel's goal.

[Dan]

34. Shhhhhh

Don’t tell them in Dearborn Michigan - cause they might realize their mistake in voting for Trump.

[Mister Ed]

4. "God wills it!" - the slogan that launched the disastrous Crusades.

That Huckabee fellow sure isn't a very diplomatic diplomat, is he?

[Martin Eden]

7. When God makes a promise, this gives believers a license to kill

In order to fulfill that promise.

Of course, other religions may have ancient texts saying the same land belongs to them.

Perpetual war, bloodshed, atrocity, and unspeakable grief are all part of God's plan!

Is it possible to impeach a deity, then elect a more humane one?

[Safe as Milk]

30. You're probably right: Deities are projections.

A "more humane one" would be a reflection of the values of those who want a more congenial god. Authoritarians want a more violent, demanding god because it suits their political goals.

[Martin Eden]

39. Man created God in man's own image.

That would explain a cruel, vengeful God that craves worship.

Did I just describe you-know-who?

[Botany]

8. The Nazi soldiers had something like it is God's will on their belt buckles.

[tonekat]

26. I understand the British soldiers would answer

any Graffiti left by the Germans with this motto by leaving their own that said "Yeah, we got mittens too!"

[paleotn]

12. Recently reread an account of the Battle of Hattin.

Salah ad-Din's coup de grâce and the end of serious Crusader military power in the Middle East. Deus vult? Guess God was on a break and missed the whole damn thing.

[PatSeg]

20. Certainly a terrible choice

for ambassador to Israel. He should go back to writing cheesy diet books.

[OldBaldy1701E]

5. He doesn't care about anything except his own wallet.

Maybe his public standing. But, mostly his wallet.

[SergeStorms]

6. He certainty.....

greased the wheels of "donations" with that statement, didn't he?

[BattleRow]

21. The Almighty hes referring to is the Almighty dollar.

[paleotn]

9. Fucker Carlson gave Huckabee enough rope to hang himself.

And more bullshit from the dusty old book of myth. Genesis 15 is ancient Hebrew fantasies, yet they only managed to control a small corner of the dusty sandbox for short periods. The Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Christian Crusaders, and Turks ran roughshod over them for centuries. Who the hell didn't? After the 63 BCE siege, Pompey himself entered the Holy of Holies in the Jewish temple with no ill effect. The Assyrians emptied it out centuries before. Titus emptied and destroyed Herod's version in 70 CE. What's left is what we see today. A ruin. So much for Genesis 15:18-20 and God's supposed covenant, along with the Jewish temple being a serious no go zone.



And not in the future either, Mike, you loon.

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. They're trying to stir up shit about the Temple Mount again

‘Al-Aqsa is a detonator’: six-decade agreement on prayer at Jerusalem holy site collapses

Israeli police raid compound, arrest staff and curb Muslims’ access as Ramadan begins

A six-decade agreement governing Muslim and Jewish prayer at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site has “collapsed” under pressure from Jewish extremists backed by the Israeli government, experts have warned.

A series of arrests of Muslim caretaker staff, bans on access for hundreds of Muslims, and escalating incursions by radical Jewish groups culminated this week in the arrest of an imam of al-Aqsa mosque and an Israeli police raid during evening prayers on the first night of Ramadan.

The actions by the Jerusalem police and the Shin Bet internal security force, both now under far-right leadership, represent a rupture in the status quo agreement dating back to the aftermath of the 1967 war, which stipulates that only Muslims are permitted to pray in the sacred compound around the mosque, known as the al-Haram al-Sharif to Muslims, which also encompasses the seventh-century Dome of the Rock shrine. To Jews it is the Temple Mount, the site of the 10th-century BC first temple and second temple, which was destroyed by the Romans in AD70.

Changes in the status quo have historically shown the potential to ignite unrest and conflict in Jerusalem and the Palestinian occupied territories with repercussions across the world. A visit by the then Israeli opposition leader, Ariel Sharon, in 2000 ignited the second Palestinian intifada, which lasted five years, and Hamas gave the name “al-Aqsa Flood” to its attack on Israel in October 2023 which killed 1,200 Israelis and triggered the Gaza war, claiming it was provoked by Israeli violations at the Jerusalem mosque.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/20/status-quo-collapsed-prayer-jerusalem-al-aqsa-mosque-ramadan

[Mosby]

32. It takes two to tango muriel.

Personally I'm committed to Liberal Pluralism, so I think people should be able to pray where they want so long as they arent bothering anyone. YMMV.

[surfered]

14. Who else thought the Age of Empire was over?

Israel gets the Middle East. The US gets the Americas. Russia gets Europe. China gets Asia.

[twodogsbarking]

15. He said the quiet part out loud.

The State of Israel has never made public any details of its nuclear capability or arsenal.

[JT45242]

16. Not conversion, extermination in the end times

This brand of moron thinks that Israel must be a large country to bring on the end of the world.

They want to trigger the book of Revelation...of course they think that they are going to heaven and all others are going to hell... especially the Jews.

They missed the whole judgement parable about feeding the hungry, taking care of the poor, etc.

[Crowman2009]

38. Hopefully the only one seeing the end of their time is Fuckabee.

He's getting up their in age and needs to get in that damn pine box already.

[NoMoreRepugs]

17. Thank goodness I have freedom FROM religion, at least for now.

[70sEraVet]

18. A couple of countries on that list of territories that would be swallowed...

by a devinely-ordained Israeli boundary (Egypt and Jordan), have just paid a billion dollars to sit on trump's Board of Peace. I would think those two countries in particular would be royally pissed to hear trump's diplomat (emphasis on the 'dip') talking about Israel's rightful boundaries.
They've got about as much chance of getting their billions back, as we do of getting our tariff billions back!

[bmichaelh]

19. Sopranos

There was a 60 Minutes episode some years back, where they interviewed a former officer in Mossad, that was suspicious of evangelical support of Israel.

This was also dramatized in an episode of the Sopranos.

Someone tells Tony's business partner, Hesh, that the evangelicals are friends of Israel.
He responds: "You wait"

[niyad]

22. People like mikey are not radicals (radix: root causes), but reactionaries,

longing for their glory days of power and domination.

[BumRushDaShow]

23. They await the "2nd coming"

which is why they are trying to manufacture an armageddon to make that happen.

[Mosby]

24. Genesis 15:18 doesn't say what Christians think it says.

Last edited Sat Feb 21, 2026, 11:28 AM - Edit history (2)

There are translation errors.

The Nile river in Hebrew is "y'or", the word used in 15:18 is "nahar". That's a tributary by Port Said, around the Sinai Peninsula. The "great river" boundaries in the section include tributaries and is a generalized ideal.

Regardless, Jews don't need the Bible (or the Holocaust) to justify the existence of Israel. Jews are indigenous to the Levant and have every right to live in the nation-state of Israel.

[TommyT139]

40. As do other Semites.

[Mosby]

41. Semites aren't people, it's a language group.

The word you're looking for is Levantine, and yes, there are other groups who originated in the Levant like the Samaritans. Arabs originated in the Arabian peninsula, spread throughout the Middle East during the Muslim conquests and reached Palestine by the 8th century CE.

[Mosby]

25. Listen to the antisemite.

He thinks all Jews should be genetically tested to prove they are related to Abraham. I'm pretty sure I have heard that racist idea before, just not from a right winger.

Link to tweet

[womanofthehills]

43. Enjoy watching Republicans argue

I’m not religious so I find it all weird to say God said it’s our land.

Interesting Ai take:

Tucker Carlson's comments on DNA during his interview with Mike Huckabee served as a pointed counterargument to Huckabee's emphasis on biblical and historical claims to the land in Israel. Carlson used the idea of genetic testing sarcastically to challenge the notion that modern Jewish Israelis—particularly those with European ancestry—have an inherent, divine right to the territory over others who may have deeper local roots. He framed it as a logical extension of Huckabee's theology: If God promised the land to Abraham's descendants (as per Genesis 15:18), then why not use science to identify who those descendants truly are today?

In the exchange, Huckabee argued that the Jewish people's connection to the land dates back 3,800 years through an "unbroken line" of language, culture, faith, and history, regardless of individual religious observance or recent geographic origins. Carlson pushed back by questioning how to verify such descent, especially for figures like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose family has known Eastern European roots and no proven ancient ties to the region. Carlson suggested mandatory DNA testing for everyone in the area to determine genetic continuity with ancient inhabitants, implying it could reveal that many Palestinians (including Christians or those with pre-Islamic roots) have stronger ancestral claims based on thousands of years of provable residency.

For example, Carlson stated: "Why don't we do genetic testing on everybody in the land and find out who Abram's descendants are? ... We can do that. Why don't we do that? ... It would prove who Abram's descendants are and who has a right to live here... If you believe the theology that you've just explained to me, wouldn't you want to know with a burning passion who those people are? ... We can now know who those people are. So why aren't we finding out? ... I guess you could propose a DNA test for everybody who comes here, everybody who lives here."
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Huckabee dismissed the idea, saying he had "no idea what that would prove" and expressing discomfort with basing rights on "blood" (i.e., genetics), preferring a secular state model focused on cultural and religious identity. He noted that Jewish identity can be ethnic or faith-based, allowing for the "right of return" even for secular Jews, but avoided engaging deeply with genetic evidence.

Carlson extended the logic to other groups, asking if Europeans like the British or Irish—whose ancient ties are "provable through genetic testing"—have exclusive rights to their lands, highlighting what he saw as hypocrisy in applying biblical claims selectively. This part of the discussion underscored broader tensions in the interview: Huckabee's defense of Israel's existence as a divine covenant versus Carlson's skepticism toward using ancient texts to justify modern territorial control, especially when genetics might complicate the narrative.

The exchange has sparked online debate, with critics accusing Carlson of oversimplifying genetics (e.g., modern DNA studies show mixed ancestries for both Jews and Palestinians, often linking them to ancient Canaanites), while supporters see it as exposing flaws in faith-based land claims.
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Overall, Carlson's DNA reference was less about endorsing genetic determinism and more about probing the consistency of Huckabee's arguments in a contemporary, evidence-based context.

[Mosby]

44. AI reflects back the antisemitism from the web

The large language models don't think, they simply sort thru millions of pages of data, many of which contain large amounts of antisemitism. Your AI response literally proves that. Consider that no one asks a Navajo to prove his or her genetic connextion to the Navajo nation, even though they may have been living in let's say Phienix for several generations. This heuristic only exists for Jews.

[Mosby]

27. Huckabee response to the antisemite

His mistake was doing the interview in the first place, but here's his response to all the haters:

When I sat down with Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, I was expecting a thoughtful conversation and that he would ask questions and give me the opportunity to actually respond--just like he did with the little Nazi sympathizer Nick Fuentes or the guy who thought Hitler was the good guy and Churchill the bad guy. What I wasn't anticipating was a lengthy series of questions where he seemed to be insinuating that the Jews of today aren't really same people as the Jews of the Bible.

I'll first just say something I didn't think to say to Tucker, which is that Ashkenazi Jews, meaning those who families had spent centuries in Europe, are a minority of Israel's Jewish population, only maybe 35-40%. There are far more Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews inside Israel.

But there's a good reason, as it turns out, that I had never encountered this theory that Tucker kept pushing on. That’s because it comes from some of the darkest realms of the Internet and social media.

I think it's important to take a moment now and educate Tucker and anyone else who might get sucked in by this dangerous conspiracy theory, just as I have been educated this week.

I'm sharing this information because it has been weaponized by very bad people to delegitimize Jews and strip them of their history.

It's an idea that gained traction in the 80's and 90's with David Duke and other Klansmen and neo-Nazis. It has really caught fire in recent years on the Internet and social media, mostly from some of the most overt anti-Semites and Jew haters you can find.

I don’t know why Tucker was so fixated on this, and I'm certainly not saying he knew the origins of this conspiracy theory. I don't know what's in his heart or what he was thinking.

But I do know that the discredited idea that most Ashkenazi or European Jews descended from the ancient Turkic kingdom of Khazaria is bunk. It's also been weaponized by people trying to deligitimize Jews, to strip them of their history, and to call them "imposters" or "fake Jews."

This odious conspiracy theory is peddled by the likes of Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes and by people who love David Duke, as well as Islamist accounts that make up false smears about Israel non-stop and are run out of countries like Pakistan and Turkey.

But we know from genetics and rich volumes of written literature that the Jews of today can trace their lineage back thousands of years to the Israel and the Jewish people of the Bible.

They are as connected together as genetics tell us that the ancient Khazar kingdom is to people living today in Turkey.

And if Tucker wants to tour more than Ben-Gurion Airport on his next trip to Israel, I'm happy to show him places where Jews have lived going back to the time of Jesus Christ and even earlier.

I sincerely hope Tucker will let me know when he actually wants to learn facts about the land and people. Asking me about conspiracy theories should remain on the fringes and not be the heart of the conversation.

[Martin68]

28. How very diplomatic.

[not fooled]

29. This is what you get when religious loons gain power

Who thinks Jesus would be down with all the implied bloodshed?

[JoseBalow]

31. Israel does not want that

Huckabee is just a shit-stirring moron.

[Bayard]

33. Straight from trump's mouth

Its the, "We want it, we take it," provision. Doesn't matter that Israel has never owned any of that land. Occupation does not mean ownership.

[patphil]

35. The Hebrews wrote it in their bible, so I guess their God must have said it.

It's ridiculous to believe otherwise. After all, they're God's chosen people.
Again, they wrote that in their bible, so their God must have said it.
The question is, who is this God they speak of? And, why does he love this particular group of Semites more than anyone else?
Kinda unbelievable isn't it? I mean really unbelievable...totally unbelievable, as in no way this is actually true.
People can write or say anything and claim it's God's word, and they will always be able to get a whole bunch of other people to believe it.

[sakabatou]

36. Just another "Christian" who wants to bring about the apocalypse.

[LudwigPastorius]

37. I've never understood why God would be so hung up on the details of land disbursement.

Instead of killing and displacing the unfortunately fucked folks living on "Israel's land", why doesn't HE just make HIS chosen a bunch more land they can live in?

I mean, HE's God, HE can do that, can't HE?

[duckworth969]

42. Gotta Get THE END TIMES rolling somehow

🙄

[BidenRocks]

45. This topic is so toxic that any comment risks removal.

The most benign response will piss off someone and Boom!

So why bother?
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