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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-22T04:28:46.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nArab and Islamic countries issued a joint condemnation on Sunday of remarks by U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who suggested Israel had a biblical right to a vast swath of the Middle East.\n\nHuckabee, a former Baptist minister and a fervent Israel supporter, was speaking on the podcast of far-right commentator and Israel critic Tucker Carlson.\n\nIn an episode released Friday, Carlson pushed Huckabee on the meaning of a biblical verse sometimes interpreted as saying that Israel is entitled to the land between the river Nile in Egypt and the Euphrates in Syria and Iraq.\n\nIn response, Huckabee said, \"It would be fine if they took it all.\"\n\nWhen pressed, however, he continued that Israel was \"not asking to take all of that\", adding: \"It was somewhat of a hyperbolic statement.\"\n\nThe backlash widened sharply on Sunday as more than a dozen Arab and Islamic governments -- alongside three major regional organizations -- issued a joint statement denouncing the U.S. diplomat's comments as \"dangerous and inflammatory\".\n\nThe statement, released by the United Arab Emirates' foreign ministry, was signed by the UAE, Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Lebanon, Syria and the State of Palestine, as well as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the Arab League and the Gulf Cooperation Council.\n\nThey said the comments contravene the UN Charter and efforts to de? escalate the Gaza war and advance a political horizon for a comprehensive settlement.\n\nEarlier, several Arab states had issued unilateral condemnations.\n\nSaudi Arabia described the ambassador's words as \"reckless\" and \"irresponsible\", while Jordan said it was \"an assault on the sovereignty of the countries of the region\".\n\nKuwait decried what it called a \"flagrant violation of the principles of international law\", while Oman said the comments \"threatened the prospects for peace\" and stability in the region.\n\nEgypt's foreign ministry reaffirmed \"that Israel has no sovereignty over the occupied Palestinian territory or any other Arab lands\".\nThe Palestinian Authority said on X that Huckabee's words \"contradict U.S. president Donald Trump's rejection of (Israel) annexing the West Bank\".\n\nOn Saturday, Huckabee published two posts on X further clarifying his position on other topics touched upon in the interview, but did not address his remark about the biblical verse.\n\nThe speaker of the Israeli parliament, Amir Ohana, praised Huckabee on X for his general pro-Israel stance in the interview, and accused Carlson of \"falsehoods and manipulations\".\n\nCarlson has recently found himself facing accusations of antisemitism, particularly following a lengthy, uncritical interview with self-described white nationalist Nick Fuentes -- a figure who has praised Hitler, denied the Holocaust and branded American Jews as disloyal.\n",
  "title": "Arab, Muslim countries slam US ambassador's remarks on Israel's right to Mideast land"
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