Mike Huckabee’s Israel Problem

And America's

Mike Huckabee’s Israel Problem — And America’s

When Mike Huckabee sat down with Tucker Carlson at Ben Gurion Airport this week, it was supposed to be a conversation about faith, geopolitics and the U.S.–Israel relationship. Instead, the interview has become a litmus test for where an American ambassador’s first allegiance truly lies.

In a sprawling, combative exchange, Huckabee — the U.S. ambassador to Israel and a longtime Christian Zionist — went far beyond standard pro‑Israel talking points. At one point he said it would be “fine” if Israel took control of all the land described in the biblical covenant “from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates,” a zone that in modern terms would swallow large parts of the Middle East. When Carlson pressed him on civilian deaths in Gaza and on whether Israel was drifting toward genocidal logic, Huckabee’s instinct was not to create dis…