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Mick Huckabee is US ambassador to Israel. His public pronouncements have the color of official US policy.

US ambassador causes uproar by claiming Israel has a right to much of the Middle East

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Arab and Muslim nations on Saturday sharply condemned comments by the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who said Israel has a right to much of the Middle East.

Huckabee made the comments in an interview with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson that aired Friday. Carlson said that according to the Bible, the descendants of Abraham would receive land that today would include essentially the entire Middle East, and asked Huckabee if Israel had a right to that land.

Huckabee responded: “It would be fine if they took it all." Huckabee added, however, that Israel was not looking to expand its territory and has a right to security in the land it legitimately holds.

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To flesh out how much territory Huckabee is saying Israel is entitled to: according to the Bible, the boundaries would be the Nile and the Euphrates. That means, besides Israel, as it is today, and the West Bank (Judea and Sumeria to people in Florida), Gaza, the Sinai, all of Jordan, all of Lebanon, about two thirds of Syria, and a bit less than half of Iraq.

Biblical Boundaries of the Land of Israel

theisraelbible.com - Biblical boundaries land israel

I have been hearing about the "Greater Israel" project for some time, usually from fringe nutters. Huckabee is giving this idea the color of official US policy. How much are we USians willing to go into debt, to finance Israel's occupation, and ethnic cleansing, of all this territory?

Steve