The US ambassador in Jerusalem, Mike Huckabee, has stated it would be “fine” if Israel took management of an unlimited swathe of the Middle East.
Huckabee was requested in an interview with US conservative commentator Tucker Carlson about his understanding of a biblical verse suggesting that land together with elements of Egypt, Syria and Iraq had been divinely promised to the Jewish individuals.
Carlson stated that in accordance with the Old Testament, the boundaries would be “basically the entire Middle East.”
He continued: “Does Israel have the right to that land?”
“Not sure we’d go that far,” Huckabee stated in reply. “It would be a big piece of land.”
Carlson then pressed him: “Does Israel have the right to that land?”
“It would be fine if they took it all,” Huckabee responded, earlier than including, “I don’t think that’s what we’re talking about here today.”
Carlson requested: “You think it would be fine if the state of Israel took over all of Jordan?”
“They’re not trying to take over Jordan. They’re not trying to take over Syria. They’re not trying to take over Iraq or anywhere else, but they do want to protect their people,” Huckabee responded.
“I think you’re missing something because they’re not asking to go back to take all of that, but they are asking to at least take the land that they now occupy, they now live in, they now own legitimately, and it is a safe haven for them,” Huckabee added.
In November 2024, shortly after President Donald Trump introduced Huckabee as his decide for ambassador to Israel, Huckabee made clear that he helps Israel’s annexation of the occupied West Bank.
He advised Israel’s Army Radio, “I won’t make the policy, I will carry out the policy of the president. But (Trump) has already demonstrated in his first term that there’s never been an American president that has been more helpful in securing an understanding of the sovereignty of Israel.”
Last September, Trump said: “I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank. Nope, I will not allow it. It’s not going to happen.”
Suggesting even nominal help for Israeli sovereignty over much of the Middle East is an unprecedented departure from American international coverage. It additionally goes properly past what much of Israel’s far-right is keen to name for publicly.
The Palestinian Foreign ministry stated Saturday that Huckabee’s remarks “contradict religious and historical facts, international law, and the position expressed by US President Donald Trump rejecting the annexation of the West Bank.”
NCS has reached out to the State Department for touch upon Huckabee’s remarks.