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According to the report, Arab and Islamic countries issued a joint condemnation on Sunday of remarks by US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who suggested Israel had a biblical right to a vast swath of the Middle East. Huckabee, a former Baptist minister and a fervent Israel supporter, was speaking on the podcast of far-right commentator and Israel critic Tucker Carlson.
The report stated that in an episode released Friday, Carlson pushed Huckabee on the meaning of a biblical verse sometimes interpreted as saying that Israel is entitled to the land between the river Nile in Egypt and the Euphrates in Syria and Iraq.33In response, Huckabee said: “It would be fine if they took it all.”
The report also stated that when the US Ambassador was pressed again, however, he continued that Israel was “not asking to take all of that”, adding: “It was somewhat of a hyperbolic statement.”
The report said that backlash widened sharply on Sunday as more than a dozen Arab and Islamic governments, alongside three major regional organizations, issued a joint statement denouncing the US diplomat’s comments as dangerous and inflammatory.
The report also said that the statement, released by the United Arab Emirates’ foreign ministry, was signed by the UAE, Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Lebanon, Syria, and the State of Palestine, as well as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the Arab League and the Gulf Cooperation Council.
The report added that Iran joined the chorus with its foreign ministry accusing Huckabee on X of revealing American active complicity in what it called Israel’s expansionist wars of aggression against Palestinians.
Additionally, the speaker of the Israeli parliament, Amir Ohana, praised Huckabee on X for his general pro-Israel stance in the interview, and accused Carlson of “falsehoods and manipulations. It said that Carlson has recently found himself facing accusations of antisemitism, particularly following a lengthy, uncritical interview with self-described white nationalist Nick Fuentes, a figure who has praised Hitler, denied the Holocaust, and branded American Jews as disloyal.
Source: The Defense Post
The report stated that in an episode released Friday, Carlson pushed Huckabee on the meaning of a biblical verse sometimes interpreted as saying that Israel is entitled to the land between the river Nile in Egypt and the Euphrates in Syria and Iraq.33In response, Huckabee said: “It would be fine if they took it all.”
The report also stated that when the US Ambassador was pressed again, however, he continued that Israel was “not asking to take all of that”, adding: “It was somewhat of a hyperbolic statement.”
The report said that backlash widened sharply on Sunday as more than a dozen Arab and Islamic governments, alongside three major regional organizations, issued a joint statement denouncing the US diplomat’s comments as dangerous and inflammatory.
The report also said that the statement, released by the United Arab Emirates’ foreign ministry, was signed by the UAE, Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Lebanon, Syria, and the State of Palestine, as well as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the Arab League and the Gulf Cooperation Council.
The report added that Iran joined the chorus with its foreign ministry accusing Huckabee on X of revealing American active complicity in what it called Israel’s expansionist wars of aggression against Palestinians.
Additionally, the speaker of the Israeli parliament, Amir Ohana, praised Huckabee on X for his general pro-Israel stance in the interview, and accused Carlson of “falsehoods and manipulations. It said that Carlson has recently found himself facing accusations of antisemitism, particularly following a lengthy, uncritical interview with self-described white nationalist Nick Fuentes, a figure who has praised Hitler, denied the Holocaust, and branded American Jews as disloyal.
Source: The Defense Post
