Mike Huckabee says it would be 'fine' if Israel took all Middle East land

The US’s ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, told podcaster Tucker Carlson that Israel has a biblical right to take over the entire Middle East — or at least the lion’s share. "It would be fine if they took it all," Huckabee said to Carlson during an interview posted on Friday.

The Trump administration appointee and former Arkansas governor discussed interpretations of Old Testament scripture within the US Christian nationalist movement. Carlson cited a verse promising Abraham land "from the wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates" and said that in modern geography it would include "like, basically the entire Middle East." Huckabee replied, "I’m not sure it would go that far, but it would be a big piece of land," adding that "Israel is a land that God gave, through Abraham, to a people that he chose.

It was a people, a place and a purpose." The interview was conducted in Israel on a trip that generated headlines when Carlson said he had experienced "bizarre" treatment at Ben Gurion airport.

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