by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, a former Baptist minister and governor of Arkansas, seemed to have fallen in over his head last week in an interview with rightwing podcaster Tucker Carlson. Carlson asked the ambassador, a Trump appointee, about a biblical verse in which God promised Abraham and his descendants land "from the wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates - the land of the Kinites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.
The formidable patch of real estate, according to Tucker Carlson, would include (in addition to Israel), Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and big parts of Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
Ambassador Huckabee's initial response was that the Jewish state had a "biblical right" to that land. He agreed that God had given it to Abraham and his descendants, and added: "It would be fine if they took it all."
The governments of several Middle Eastern countries (primarily US allies) were not amused at the ambassador's careless remarks, and promptly condemned what he had said. Huckabee, for his part, began backpedaling.
Perhaps the preacher/diplomat had misread his scripture.
There was absolutely no point in jeopardizing future Trump/Kushner real estate deals in the region over one man's intrepretation of a Bible verse.
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