Ambassador Huckabee Suggests Israel has God-given right to Middle East Land

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Huckabee's comments drew swift condemnation from across the region, with U.S. allies expressing discomfort with his remarks.

Posted by Doc_sarvis at 01:32 PM | 13 COMMENTS | permalink

Senior Trump administration officials have called around to several Arab countries in recent days to mollify their concerns after Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee claimed Israel has a right to control much of the Middle East.

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-- Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) Feb 23, 2026 at 10:09 PM

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Based on Bronze Age campfire stories.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-02-23 05:18 AM

Hi Doc Sarvis:

I finished reading Virginia Roberts Giuffre's book Nobody's Girl; hope you can borrow it from your library.

That book should have taken me two to three days to read, but I had to put it down after every chapter, so it took me almost ten days.

That poor girl never had a chance in life.

BTW: Republican Mike Huckabee may not be alone in his Bronze Age campfire sentiments about Israeli expansion.

This is a bipartisan Congressional junket to Israel circa 2019: www.youtube.com

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-23 05:34 AM

When belief-based belief usurps evidence-based belief, things get fcnked up

#3 | Posted by hamburglar at 2026-02-23 05:39 AM

No he didn't.

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-02-23 06:57 AM

Well, whether there is a Creator God or not, as people like neuroscientist Andrew Huberman and many others now think that there is...

... Huckabee and most other of these MAGA white nationalist faux Christians are just flat wrong about Christian theology.

Even a knowledgeable Jew will tell you that after the Messiah has come, all the lands are Holy, not just Israel.

They just happened to miss the part where he was already here.

And the aforementioned fake Christisns are the ones who, according to scripture, fall away from the Church and towards the Antichrist... as we have seen with Trump, which is one of the dozens of ways which describe that person.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-23 10:35 AM

You get the idea that a Sunni NATO is coming. Already Turkey and Egypt are cozying up to one another. Algeria, Syria and many of the eastern African and gulf states will soon jump aboard. Eventually, Morocco and the UAE will flip. Jordan will be the last.

#6 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2026-02-23 10:59 AM

Cuckabibi loves to let Israel screw the country the cuck is supposed to be putting first.

#7 | Posted by horstngraben at 2026-02-23 11:28 AM

People, this isn't about a religion.

If that were true Gaza would be rebuilt as an enormous synagogged landscape.

Casinos and resorts are undoubtedly similar enough to Israeli.

Huckabee knows this.

#8 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-02-24 12:08 PM

There's just something about people that are looking forward to The Apocalypse because they think it validates their faith/delusion that makes me think they don't belong anywhere near power or influence in the real world.

#9 | Posted by morris at 2026-02-24 02:41 PM

"God-given right"

Alkah Akbar!

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-24 08:05 PM

From the sub-summary ...

... Senior Trump administration officials have called around to several Arab countries in recent days to mollify their concerns after Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee claimed Israel has a right to control much of the Middle East. ...

OK, they called.

The problem is that Pres Trump's diplomacy is not about words.

So Senior Trump Administration officials can call and talk all they want with other countries.

The concern is, will those words of Senior Trump Admin officials be believed?

Or will Pres Trump change his policy next week via a social media post?

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-24 09:52 PM

There is only one reality, call it god or Mother Nature, and there is but one truth that describes the far right...it is their perspective that fascist "dear daddy" leadership of a family, a town, a country, is their right and duty. And those of us who are terrified of them are to be culled.

#12 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-02-25 06:51 AM

Even Tucker Carlson called him on this and, when pressed, easily showed Shuckabee's complete lack of consistency for any other country than Israel.

He along with his producer were subsequently detained at Tel Aviv airport (IIRC), had his passport taken from him and questioned.

#13 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-25 03:33 PM

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