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US envoy says it would be ‘fine’ if Israel expands across West Asia

Saturday, 21 February 2026 6:39 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 21 February 2026 6:39 AM ]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pursues the “Greater Israel” as shown in this map of the “Promised Land” located between the Euphrates River in Iraq and the Nile River in Egypt. (Image by Press TV)

The US envoy to Israel says it would be “fine” if the occupying regime expands across West Asia under the “Greater Israel” scheme.

“It would be fine if they took it all,” Mike Huckabee said in an interview with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson aired on Friday, when asked about Tel Aviv’s intention to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates.

Huckabee, a staunch Christian Zionist, was pressed about where the geographical borders of the Israeli regime were located.

According to the Bible, Carlson told Huckabee, West Asia is the promised land belonging to the descendants of the prophet Abraham – including Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

Huckabee, who was appointed as the Israeli envoy by US President Donald Trump last year, responded, “It would be fine if they took it all.”

The promised land includes all the countries between the Euphrates River in Iraq and the Nile River in Egypt, encompassing modern-day countries Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq, as well as parts of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt.

Carlson, who seemed surprised by Huckabee’s response, asked the US diplomat whether he approved of the Israeli regime’s takeover of the entire West Asia region.

“They don’t want to take it over. They’re not asking to take it over,” the American diplomat responded, adding, “If they end up getting attacked by all these places, and they win that war, and they take that land, OK, that’s a whole other discussion.”

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has openly promoted expansionism, pursuing the idea of a “Greater Israel” with expanded borders.

In a 2025 TV interview, Netanyahu said he subscribes to the vision of a “Greater Israel.”

Netanyahu said he feels he is on a “historic and spiritual mission,” affirming that he is deeply attached to the vision of the so-called “Promised Land” and “Greater Israel,” calling the occupied Palestinian territories and parts of neighboring Arab states a “historical and spiritual mission.”

Also, in 2023, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stirred international outrage when he spoke at an event featuring a map that included the Palestinian territories and portions of Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan as part of Israel.

This week, Smotrich revealed that they will try to “encourage” the exit of Palestinians from the land.

Smotrich also demanded a formal end to the Oslo Accords, the 1990s agreements between the Israeli regime and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) that were meant to “resolve the conflict and guarantee Palestinians’ right to self-determination.”

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