US Envoy Mike Huckabee Cites Bible To Claim Israel’s Right To Entire Middle East

3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Feb 21, 2026 05:02 PM US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Saturday said Israel has the Biblical right to take over what constitutes large swathes of the Middle East.ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO
The former Republican governor made the statement in an interview with American right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson while referring to the Book of Genesis of the Old Testament.
When Tucker asked why Huckabee cited the Book of Genesis three times and questioned if he believed that Israel has the right to take over Israel, the Bapt miner replied, “It would be fine if they took it all.”
In the episode of the Tucker Carlson Network, the former Fox host pointed out that Huckabee appealed to Genesis 15, which says that God gave Abram the news that his descendants would inherit the land from the rivers Euphrates (running through present-day Iraq and Syria) to the Nile (in Egypt).
“That would include basically the entire Middle East, that would be the Levant; that would be Israel Jordan Syria Lebanon. That would also be big parts of Saudi Arabia and Iraq,” Tucker pointed out.
“Not sure it would go that far. I mean, it would be a big piece of land. Here’s the point…this particular area that we’re talking about now – Israel – is a land that God gave through Abraham to a people that he chose. It was a people, a place and a purpose. We can look at it that way,” Huckabee replied.

BREAKING: US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee tells Tucker Carlson that Israel has the Biblical right to take over all of the Middle East.
“It would be fine if they took it all.” pic.twitter.com/BN4fXh03ga
— Tucker Carlson Network (@TCNetwork) February 20, 2026
What is Book of  Genesis?
Genesis – the text Carlson and Huckabee cited – is the first of the five books of the Torah, and consequently the first book of the Hebrew Bible and Chrian Old Testament. The Jewish people, who consider the Torah their most sacred text, view themselves as the children of Abraham, the name given to Abram in Genesis 17:4-8.
According to the text, Abram’s descendants would inherit the land of Canaan, spanning from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates.Story continues below this ad
“You have said three times that God gave this land to these people…what land are you talking about…that land, I think, it says from the Nile to the Euphrates, which is basically the entire Middle East. So God gave that land to his people, the Jews, or he didn’t. You’re saying he did. What does that mean? Does Israel have the right to that land?”
“It would be fine if they took it all,” Huckabee replied.