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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

US envoy Mike Huckabee says it would be ‘fine’ if Israel took all Middle East land

a man in a suit walks outside
Mike Huckabee at the Church of St George in the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank. Photograph: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP via Getty Images

The US’s 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 – or at least the lion’s share of it.

“It would be fine if they took it all,” 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.

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