‘Tucker Carlson’s revolt against America’s Israel policy’

This is apropos several letters to the Editor titled ‘Tucker Carlson’s revolt against America’s Israel policy’ carried by the newspaper in recent days.

Let me further recall how Carlson conducted a combative, two-and-a-half-hour interview with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. During that interview, Carlson directly confronted a theological claim of Israel for the land promised to them by God “from the Nile to the Euphrates.” He pointed out that, if interpreted literally in contemporary geopolitical terms, such a claim would encompass parts of present-day Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and beyond.

Carlson pressed the ambassador on whether this scriptural narrative could justify territorial expansion under the banner of a so-called “Greater Israel.” In response, the ambassador said that if Israel conquered those territories then why not. The tone and tenor of the Ambassador clearly suggested that he was aligned with the Israel dream of greater Israel and was playing his part to pursue the elusive Israeli dream.

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