{"id":66905,"date":"2026-02-20T19:04:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/us-envoy-mike-huckabee-says-it-would-be-fine-if-israel-took-all-middle-east-land\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T19:04:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:04:56","slug":"us-envoy-mike-huckabee-says-it-would-be-fine-if-israel-took-all-middle-east-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/us-envoy-mike-huckabee-says-it-would-be-fine-if-israel-took-all-middle-east-land\/","title":{"rendered":"US envoy Mike Huckabee says it would be \u2018fine\u2019 if Israel took all Middle East land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rightwing Trump ally tells Tucker Carlson Israel has biblical right to land from \u2018wadi of Egypt to the great river\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The US\u2019s ambassador to Israel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/mikehuckabee\">Mike Huckabee<\/a>, has contended to the podcaster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/tucker-carlson\">Tucker Carlson<\/a> that Israel has a biblical right to take over the entire Middle East \u2013 or at least the lion\u2019s share of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be fine if they took it all,\u201d Huckabee said to Carlson during an interview posted on Friday. The Trump administration appointee and former Arkansas governor discussed with Carlson interpretations of Old Testament scripture within the US Christian nationalist movement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/20\/mike-huckabee-israel-middle-east-tucker-carlson\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rightwing Trump ally tells Tucker Carlson Israel has biblical right to land from \u2018wadi of Egypt to the great river\u2019 The US\u2019s ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has contended to the podcaster Tucker Carlson that Israel has a biblical right to take over the entire Middle East \u2013 or at least the lion\u2019s share of &#8230; <a title=\"US envoy Mike Huckabee says it would be \u2018fine\u2019 if Israel took all Middle East land\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/us-envoy-mike-huckabee-says-it-would-be-fine-if-israel-took-all-middle-east-land\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US envoy Mike Huckabee says it would be \u2018fine\u2019 if Israel took all Middle East land\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}