JD Hall,, Insight to Incite, June 18, 2026
What if America’s ambassador to Israel is no longer acting as America’s ambassador at all? What if the man tasked with representing U.S. interests abroad has become more like Israel’s ambassador to the United States, publicly correcting his own president, undermining American diplomacy, and promoting a foreign government’s priorities over those of the nation he swore to serve? Mike Huckabee’s latest remarks were not merely another awkward gaffe from a zealous Christian Zionist. They exposed a deeper problem that has been hiding in plain sight for decades: a political and theological worldview so committed to Israel’s interests that it struggles to distinguish them from America’s.
Back in February, I wrote, “GOING NATIVE: Huckabee Professes Support for ‘Greater Israel’ Apocalypse.” I explained that Huckabee’s support for the premise of the Greater Israel project during his interview with Tucker Carlson – claiming that the Israeli State has a divine right to roughly five-hundred thousand square miles of land currently occupied by 340 million Muslims – would prove to be one of the worst one-line blunders in American diplomatic history.
HUCKABEE, ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES
Within hours of my article, the foreign ministers of 14 Arab nations, the League of Arab States, the Gulf Cooperation Council, and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation had issued a statement condemning Huckabee’s remarks and saying that it “directly contradicts the vision put forth by U.S. policy. And they were right, of course. The entire Middle East is quite aware that Israel believes itself entitled to their land, wealth, and resources on account of their deep religious and ethnic superiority, and the United States has gone to great pains to convince our essential allies in the region that we do not support Israel’s lust for its real estate. Senior Trump officials had to place calls to allies and assure them that Huckabee’s comments reflected “a personal view,” and not a change in policy. Huckabee’s response was to allege that his interview had been “selectively edited.”
Huckabee lied.
As I explained in that article, it wouldn’t be the first time an American Diplomat had “gone native” and had to be recalled. In the mid-20th century, McCarthy had to purge John Paton Davies Jr from ambassadorship, because he had grown sympathetic with Mao’s Communists. Ambassador Joseph Grew in Japan and George Kennan in the Soviet Union both went native as well. But as these examples show, defections by ambassadors do happen. I said at the time, “Huckabee has obviously crossed that line a long time ago.”
The examples I gave of Huckabee’s undermining of U.S. foreign policy – the very policy it’s his job to promote – include taking part in a ground-breaking ceremony for an illegal settlement even after Trump issued a moratorium on their building, and he privately hosted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard at the U.S. embassy, despite Pollard continuing to call on American Jews to spy on their own government. Further, Huckabee has made no real attempt to reign in Israeli persecution of Christians in Gaza or Lebanon, their turning a blind eye to Jewish violence and vandalism toward Christiaan communities in Israel, and with the one exception of making private threats to stop stone-walling visa applications for clergy affiliated with American Dispensationalist churches while simultaneouslky praising Israel publicly for their “friendship” with the Christian religion, he has not lifted a finger to help Christians native to Israel. Those historic churches, so far as Huckabee is concerned, can go to hell. In fact, he publicly questioned if they were Christians at all.
My overall thesis was, and still is, that Huckabee does not behave as a U.S. ambassador to Israel. He behaves as an Israeli ambassador to the United States, serving as a de facto spokesperson for Israeli interests, as their full-time public relations agent to the American people, and a lobbyist for the Israeli government to both the American public and to the U.S. government. Huckabee can be seen on American television on any given night of the week, telling Americans, and in particular, American Christians, that we have an “eternal moral debt” that we must repay Israel.
I could’ve sworn Jesus paid my eternal debts. Maybe I heard that wrong.
All of that laundry list of reasons why Huckabee should be recalled as U.S. Ambassador to Israel pales in comparison to his latest full-frontal insult to President Donald Trump, and his latest clap-back to POTUS’ authority over U.S. diplomatic relations. It’s so bad that it’s hard to fathom that any ambassador doing something similar could possibly remain in his office without extreme damage being done to America’s chief executive. If Trump refuses to remove Huckabee after this, it will not only speak to the incredible power of the Israel Lobby, which would surely fight for his job security, but it will also speak to Trump’s growing weakness to maintain positional superiority in his increasingly volatile relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu.
Having a diplomat undermine and “correct” the sitting president is a major liability when trying to convince Israel that Trump will not be pushed around by them. If he can’t check the power of his own ambassador, how will he convince Netanyahu that American interests must not take the backseat to Israeli ones?
THE BACKGROUND
Trump was at the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, standing alongside Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the leader of the nation that is, factually speaking, the greatest and most essential strategic ally in the region, if not the entire world. The American base in Qatar houses roughly 10,000 U.S. troops and serves as the forward headquarters of U.S. Central Command, which means it is the nerve center for American military operations across a region that runs from Egypt to Central Asia. Every significant American air operation in the broader Middle East theater runs through or is coordinated from Al Udeid. It was the primary staging and command hub for operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, and it remains the central node for any American military action involving Iran, Syria, or anything else in the region. Qatar also hosts the Combined Air Operations Center, which is the command-and-control hub for all U.S. and coalition air power across the entire CENTCOM area of responsibility, encompassing roughly 20 countries.
This is the ally that Trump asked to host peace talks with Hamas, and who Israel bombed in the middle of those peace talks to derail them. Trump immediately signed an executive order calling Qatar an important ally and promised to defend it (against Israel) from further attacks, something that went massively unreported in Israeli-dominated American media.
Standing next to this important ally, Trump unloaded on Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel’s continued strikes on Lebanon, called one particular strike “vicious,” and told Netanyahu publicly to be “more responsible.” He had already told Axios privately, after Israel hit a Beirut suburb on the same day he announced the U.S.-Iran deal was being signed, that he was “so p—ed off” at Netanyahu that he let him know directly the man had “no f—ing judgment.”
That quote was already public before Trump walked into the G7 room, and Trump knew it was public, which is exactly why what he said next was not impulsive, and not the rambling of a man who hadn’t slept. It was a message, delivered on the largest stage available, in front of the audience it was intended for.
“Without us, without the United States, there would be no Israel,” Trump said. “Without me, there’d be no Israel, because no other president was willing to do what I did.”
His first line is accurate in every sense. It was the United States that foolishly rushed to acknowledge Israel as a nation after its extended terrorism campaign against the British caused the UK to throw up its hands in exasperation and surrender the mandate given by the League of Nations to oversee the creation of two states, Israel and Palestine, and pull out of the region.
It was also the United States that Israeli PM Golda Meir called for support in the 1973 Yom Kippur War when Syria and Egypt were days away from wiping Israel off the map and lamented, “The Third Temple is falling.” The IDF pulled their illegally obtained nuclear weapons out of the same Dimona caves that JFK tried to have inspected before the CIA murdered him – created with stolen American uranium – so they could be seen by American spy planes and used like a Jewish suicide belt. This was the first time the Israelis forced the U.S. to bend to their will, and Nixon had no choice but to launch Operation Nickel Grass, the largest military supply drop in world history, to save the Israelis from a conflict of their own making. Using their nukes to force “diplomatic” concessions more successfully than any other rogue state has attempted, the U.S. has served as Israel’s protectorate ever since, under the threat of impending and imminent nuclear winter if Israel ever again feels the consequences of their constant warfare in the Middle East. Since that October night in 1973 when Golda Meir aimed thirteen nuclear warheads at American foreign policy and dared Nixon to blink, Israel has been writing checks the U.S. taxpayer has had to cash ever since.
Trump’s second line is less true and more Trumpian in logic. His claim, “Without me, there’d be no Israel, because no other president was willing to do what I did,” is farcical because it implies that going to war with Iran in some small way protected Israel from mass extinction. That’s the official narrative, of course, but absurd. Israel has had roughly 30 separate military conflicts since its founding. By comparison, since the founding of the Islamic Republic, Iran has had one defensive war it didn’t start (Israel armed them in that conflict), and a handful of direct strikes in the last two years. The country Americans have been told to fear as the aggressor has fought one war. The country we’ve been told to fund and protect has fought roughly one conflict every two and a half years of its existence.
Israel was in no clear and present danger from Iran. There was no imminent threat of their nuclear program. Iran was not on the precipice of annihilating Israel. Trump didn’t “save Israel,” because Israel’s greatest threat is its ethnic prejudice and ceaseless fight-picking with its neighbors.
THE CLAPBACK
Nonetheless, every diplomat in that room and every intelligence analyst watching the feed understood what was happening. Trump was establishing leverage, reminding Netanyahu in public, in front of Arab allies whose cooperation the administration needs most urgently, that America is the senior partner in this relationship, that Israeli military adventurism in Lebanon is complicating American diplomatic priorities, and that the debt in this relationship runs in one direction only. The statement was a deliberate positioning move made at the highest-profile multilateral forum on earth, delivered as a warning to a prime minister who has been treating American patience as an inexhaustible natural resource.
Hours later, Huckabee took the stage at the International Conference on Israeli Heritage in Judea and Samaria, a settler conference held at Herodion National Park in the occupied West Bank, and detonated everything Trump had just built, undermining Trump’s comments only hours before, and by any perspective, contradicting the Commander in Chief.
“It is your heritage, without a doubt,” he told the crowd of Israeli settlers, “but it is also the heritage of the United States. Without Israel, without the Jewish foundation, there would not be an America. We owe our very existence to what happened in this land.”
Trump’s own ambassador, within hours, at a conference of settlers in territory his own president has said he will not allow Israel to annex, said Israel built America, and America needs to remember it. Those two statements cannot both be true; they cannot both represent American foreign policy, and they cannot both have come from men on the same team working toward the same goals, because they were not. One of them came from the elected president of the United States, who staked out a negotiating position with enormous strategic consequences at the G7. The other came from a “moderate” Baptist minister from Arkansas who has spent his entire ambassadorship functioning as Israel’s most enthusiastic American spokesman, and who cannot help himself even when helping himself would be the minimum requirement of his job.
THE REBUTTAL
The United States and Israel do not “share a heritage.” The fact that this claim gets repeated so often and so confidently by men who have apparently never thought about it for five consecutive minutes does not make it less false. It makes it more dangerous because false premises embedded in foreign policy eventually manifest as body bags and treasury deficits.
The United States is a constitutional republic whose entire philosophical architecture rests on English common law, the Magna Carta, Enlightenment natural rights theory, and a Protestant dissenting tradition that shaped every institution the founders built. The founders did speak the language of covenant, of a New Jerusalem, of a people called to a providential mission, but the covenant they had in mind was a Christian one, mediated through Christ, extended to all nations, and expressed through English liberties hammered out over centuries of conflict between kings and subjects, and transplanted to the American colonies by men who were heirs to the best of English Christian civilization. When John Winthrop called Massachusetts a city on a hill, he was quoting the Sermon on the Mount, not the Talmud. When the founders invoked Providence, they were invoking the God of Reformation Christianity, not the God of rabbinical Judaism. The American covenant was explicitly universal in its aspirations and explicitly Christian in its foundations, which makes it the opposite of what Israel is, not the same thing. Israel’s national charter literally rejects Jesus in its “Basic Law.”
Further, the Bill of Rights is not a “Jewish document.” The separation of powers is not a Talmudic concept. The presumption of innocence, trial by jury, habeas corpus, the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, these are English inheritance, and English inheritance is Christian inheritance, built by a civilization that had been formed by fifteen centuries of the Church’s influence on law, governance, and the dignity of the human person. The men who wrote the Constitution were not drawing on the Talmud. They were drawing on Blackstone, Locke, Coke, and the long tradition of Christian jurisprudence that produced them.
Israel, on the other hand, is a religious ethnostate. That is not an insult. It is a description. Israel defines citizenship and belonging through ethnic and religious categories that are in stark contrast to those of the United States. The Law of Return grants automatic citizenship to anyone who can demonstrate Jewish ancestry (unless they believe in Jesus) while Palestinians whose families lived on the same land for centuries have no such right. Arab Israeli citizens vote and serve in the Knesset, but they do so inside a legal and social framework that explicitly defines the state as “the nation-state of the Jewish people,” not of its citizens. Israeli civil law is nothing but Jewish Shariah – literally, Halakha and Shariah are spitting images – operates alongside a rabbinical court system that has binding authority over marriage, divorce, and personal status for Jewish citizens, perpetuating a system of discrimination and prejudice at the foundational level. The State of Israel is repugnant to the American ethos.
These are two nations built on incompatible foundational premises: one believes civil authority derives from universal natural rights endowed by the Christian God, and the other believes it derives from ethnic superiority and religious chosenness. The divergence is most evident when Israel bombs a hospital, a church, or a refugee column, or engages in human rights violations, all built upon a systemic, nation-wide repudiation of the Imago Dei. Israelis and the Rabbinic Judaism they hold to don’t believe in the Imago Dei at all; they believe that non-Jews have animal souls, that Gentiles don’t qualify as humans, and that only Jews are made in the image of God. It’s hard to imagine anything being less divergent from America’s founding presumptions. This is why, for an Israeli, the concept of “natural rights” is not universal, and they can sleep at night despite their long day at the war crime factory.
The United States Constitution exists specifically to constrain government, to place individual rights beyond the reach of temporary majorities, to divide power so thoroughly that no single faction can capture the entire apparatus of the state and use it against the people. The Bill of Rights does not grant rights. It recognizes rights that pre-exist government and places them outside the government’s reach entirely. No act of Congress, no executive order, and no judicial ruling can strip an American of free speech, free exercise of religion, or due process, because those rights do not come from the government and therefore cannot be taken by it. That framework is the inheritance of centuries of Christian natural law thinking, the idea that human dignity is God-given and therefore government-proof.
Israel neither has nor wants a Constitution, the only Democracy in the world that doesn’t feel the need for one. It operates under Basic Laws, a collection of statutes passed by the Knesset, and the Knesset can amend or repeal them, which means Israeli rights exist entirely at the pleasure of whatever coalition currently holds a parliamentary majority.
Israel is not a “Western Democracy” in the Middle East. Israel is a religious ethnostate operating from Sharia Law principles that happens to have some elections.
AMERICA’S FOUNDING WAS NOT “JEWISH”
America’s founding is not “Jewish.” The Old Testament is not a “Jewish Book.” Washington didn’t own a Hebrew Tanakh. Ironically, back then, English-speaking Jews used the KJV Old Testament. The Old Testament is a Christian Book; the founders learned it from Christian churches, taught by Christian pastors. They interpreted it through fifteen centuries of Christian theology, preached from Anglican pulpits, filtered through Reformed confessions, and understood through the lens of a New Covenant that the rabbis explicitly rejected.
When Jefferson invoked the Exodus, he was not reading Rashi. When Winthrop quoted Moses, he was not consulting the Talmud. When the founders reached for the Old Testament, they did so as the first half of a Christian Bible pointing forward to Christ, not as the sacred national literature of an ethnic people to whom God still owed favors or had unfulfilled promises to keep. Their commentary was Calvin, not Maimonides. The Jewish community in 1776 America numbered roughly 2,500 people in a population of 2.5 million, and their influence on the founding documents was precisely as significant as that ratio suggests. America’s founding draws on Hebrew Scripture the way a cathedral draws on the quarry it was built from. The stones came from one place. The building is something else entirely.
Further, Huckabee’s claims of a “Jewish” American founding continue peddling the canard that the religion of modern Israelis has some semblance to the religion of the Old Testament. It does not. Rabbinic Judaism is just as divergent from the Mosaic Old Covenant religion as Mormonism is from Christianity. Huckabee’s comments make as much sense as if the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints stood in Salt Lake City and claimed that America had a Mormon founding because they, too, read our New Testament.
The religion the Founders read about in the Old Testament revolved around a Temple, required priests, bloody sacrifices, and an altar within it. That religion pointed to Jesus Christ as its Messiah, and was entrusted to the Christian faith to care and steward, retired at the cross, with rites and rituals that cannot be duplicated, amended or changed. They read of Nadab and Abihu, who were consumed by fire and swallowed into the ground for daring to use their own light to start the altar fire. In juxtaposition, the religion of the modern Israelis is so artificially contrived, invented, adapted, and amended that what Zippo one uses is beyond the care of rational concern. It originated in the traditions of the Pharisees; its holy book, the Talmud, didn’t begin to be written until centuries after Christ and wasn’t completed until long after the entire Roman Empire had been thoroughly Christianized.
Modern Judaism was created to be oppositional to Christianity. It denies the truths of the Old Testament. Its rites and rituals are so different from those given to Moses that they would be unrecognizable, and it represents a departure from the religion of the Old Testament saints, not a furtherance of it.
Further, the religion of the Israelis and those of the Founders are not only not conjoined as twins, but their worldview claims are also oppositional. The founders did not envision America as a nation in friendly partnership with the covenant people of God. They believed America WAS the covenant people of God, a new Israel, a chosen nation called out of the corrupt Old World the way Abraham was called out of Ur, given a wilderness to cross, a promised land to settle, and a divine mandate to build a city that would be a light to the nations. They named their towns Canaan (in Connecticut), Goshen (in Ohio), Bethlehem (in Pennsylvania), Beulah (in North Carolina), and Salem (for Jeru-Salem, in Massachusetts). They believed themselves to be a New Jerusalem, scattered across the map in half a dozen states. Their children were named Isaac and Ezra and Caleb and Nathaniel and Deborah and Hannah and Ruth, not because they were honoring Jewish heritage but because those were their people, their ancestors in the faith, the cast of the story they understood themselves to be continuing.
The Puritan preachers called England “Egypt,” called the Atlantic “the Red Sea,” called the American wilderness “Sinai,” and called the settled colonies “Canaan.” These were not metaphors decorating a political project, but a theological conviction driving one, and it was thoroughly, irreducibly, exclusively Christian in its framework, because the covenant they believed they had inherited had been expanded at Calvary to include the Gentiles, and the Messiah they worshipped had been crucified by the Jews outside Jerusalem and was not available for comment from any synagogue in the colonies.
These are not similar nations. These are competing ones, with polar opposite worldviews.
ISRAELIS ARE NOT ISRAELITES
The next flaw of Huckabee’s statement is his conflation of Israelis in 2026 with the Israelites of the Old Testament. A nation of Eastern Europeans who migrated to Palestine in the early 20th century, took Semitic-sounding surnames at the demand of David Grün, who you know as Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion. Jewish immigrants and public figures were required to “Hebraize” their surnames to help construct a new Jewish national identity rooted in the land and the new “Hebrew” language.
Hebraization was driven by the conviction that diaspora Jewish identity, Yiddish culture, European names, and European languages had to shed to be more authentically Jewish. Netanyahu’s surname was Mileikowski. The irony is that the Zionist project required inventing a people as much as gathering one. They were not recovering something ancient, but manufacturing something new and calling it ancient. When the United States was founded in 1776, the ancestors of modern Israelis spoke European languages, had European names, and read Christian versions of the Bible in their native, non-Hebrew speaking tongue.
But there’s something else here under the surface that is even more dumb. Let’s suppose that the Israelis are, in fact, authentic ancestors of the ancient Israelites. Better yet, let’s go even further and, as a thought experiment, pretend for a moment that modern Israelis are the actual ancient Israelites and just age well. In this thought experiment, what exactly would Americans owe them? The ancient Israelites, if we are reading the same Bible, were not a hallowed assembly of untouchable saints whose legacy demands perpetual Gentile gratitude and military subsidy. They were, by God’s own repeated and colorful description, a stiff-necked people. That is not a modern critic’s characterization. That is God’s characterization, delivered personally, to Moses, on the mountain, while the people were still within earshot of the thunder. “I have seen this people,” God told Moses in Exodus 32, “and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.” He said it again in Deuteronomy 9. He said it again in Deuteronomy 31. They were, for lack of a better word, awful.
The historical record the Bible provides of the ancient Israelites is of a people who received more direct divine intervention than any nation in human history and responded with a consistency that is almost impressive in its sheer awfulness. They watched ten plagues dismantle the most powerful empire on earth on their behalf and built a golden calf before Moses came back from talking to God. They were fed bread from heaven every morning and spent their wilderness years longing for cucumbers from Egypt. They were given the law of God directly, in thunder and fire, and within a generation had filled Canaan with the high places and the Asherah poles and the child sacrifice that the law had explicitly forbidden. God likened them through Ezekiel to a promiscuous wife who had been rescued from abandonment and given every good thing and responded by chasing every nation that passed by. “You were different from other women in your whorings,” God told Jerusalem, “for no one solicited you. You gave payment while no payment was given to you.”
“You are a whore who is so detestable and rancid, you have to pay them to sleep with you.” You can’t top that burn. God is the ultimate roast master.
The prophets who were given to call them back to God were received as problems to be managed and silenced. Jeremiah was thrown into a cistern. Isaiah was sawn in two. Zechariah was stoned to death in the Temple courtyard. Elijah fled into the wilderness. Jesus Himself, standing in Jerusalem, delivered the verdict that the city had been killing its prophets and stoning its messengers for generations, and then demonstrated the point within the week.
Stephen, making the same argument to the Sanhedrin in Acts 7, traced the entire history from Abraham to Solomon and reached the same conclusion. “You stiff-necked people,” he told them, using God’s own word for it, “you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you. Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute?”
Jews and Mike Huckabee are convinced, after reading the Bible, that Jews are morally superior beings, whom the Christian Church owes “an eternal moral debt, which is payable in shekels and Jericho Missiles. Reading the Old Testament should not leave you with that impression. If anything, it appears God chose the Jews because Jesus came to die, and God chose the nation on Earth most likely to crucify their own Savior. Had He chosen the Ninevehites or Sodomites, they might have repented. A more Biblical way to put it is that God chose who might be the most notoriously rotten people on Planet Earth to display HIs own righteous mercy, which is essentially what Deuteronomy 9:6, “Know, therefore, that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people.”
So what are Americans and Christians supposed to be grateful to Jews for exactly? Crucifying Jesus? Murdering the prophets? Assassinating the Apostles? Persecuting the early church? Yes, the Bible was written by the Holy Ghost through Jewish hands. And the Jews collectively murdered all the people whose hands those belonged to. I am failing to see how this requires the United States to give them missiles and jet aircraft to kill more people. I think we can all agree that the Jews have done enough killing.
WHAT HAPPENED “IN THIS LAND”?
The last stupid line in Huckabee’s betrayal of Trump is his claim that because of “what happened in this land,” the United States exists. What he was referring to specifically is anyone’s guess. The Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ? The Israelis don’t exactly believe that narrative. Is that why Huckabee was vague? Is he actually claiming that the United States wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for something that Jews fundamentally reject? Is Huckabee referring to something else, and if so, what is it if not the birth of Christianity?
Other than the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, arguably the next-biggest event in human history is God’s call to Abraham. That happened in modern-day Iraq. But God actually installed His covenant with Abraham in Mesopotamia, near modern-day Hebron in the West Bank, which is an occupied Palestinian territory. It doesn’t belong to Israel. Abraham also encountered God in modern-day Egypt, where Moses was born. Is Huckabee talking about the Ten Commandments? God handed down the Ten Commandments in modern-day Saudi Arabia (or Egypt, depending upon your geographical theory). Daniel and Esther took place in Iran. Can one also say that the United States would not exist if it were not for Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, and Palestine?
Perhaps, if we take Huckabee at his word in the infamous Tucker interview, he’s referring to “Greater Israel” where these things took place. But the very reason Greater Israel doesn’t exist now is that it didn’t even exist then, because Israel never fulfilled its obligations under the Covenant. The promise in Genesis 15 was unconditional in the sense that God alone passed between the pieces, binding himself by covenant while Abram slept, which is why theologians call it a unilateral covenant. But the possession and enjoyment of the land were always explicitly conditional on obedience. Israel was never big on obedience.
Deuteronomy lays out the conditional framework in exhaustive detail. Blessings for obedience, curses for disobedience, and the ultimate curse being removal from the land entirely. Moses told them before they ever crossed the Jordan that if they abandoned God, they would be plucked off the land and scattered among the nations, and that is exactly what happened, twice, first to the northern kingdom at the hands of Assyria in 722 BC and then to the southern kingdom at the hands of Babylon beginning in 605 BC.
Joshua 21:43-45 states that God gave Israel all the land he had sworn to give their fathers, that they took possession of it, that they settled in it, and that not one word of all the good promises God had made failed. The Text declares the land promise fulfilled under Joshua. Then Solomon’s reign in 1 Kings 4 describes his dominion as extending from the Euphrates to the border of Egypt, with all the kings west of the Euphrates paying tribute, which is as close to the full Greater Israel boundaries as the biblical record ever gets, and it lasted precisely as long as Israel remained faithful, which was not long at all.
The prophets are unanimous that the exile and the loss of the land were covenant consequences for covenant violation. God did not fail to deliver the land. Israel failed to keep the terms under which it was given. The Greater Israel project is therefore not a recovery of an unfulfilled promise. It is a demand to collect an inheritance that was forfeited, without meeting the conditions under which it was originally granted, while simultaneously rejecting the Messiah through whom the covenant was ultimately fulfilled and extended to all nations. Now, in the year 2026 – two thousand years after that Covenant had been ultimately fulfilled by Jesus Christ – some lazy-eyed yokel preacher-turned-politician from Arkanasas is somehow the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, declaring that somehow through this string of historical events, the United States exists on account of European Hebrew cosplayers in modern day Palestine and is perfectly willing to set the Middle East on literal fire to declare the people who crucified Jesus have passed on an irrevocable land trust contrary to the stated foreign policy of the American president.
SEND HUCKABEE HOME
Mike Huckabee is dangerous. If it is possible to spark World War III by the careless words of a Dispensationalist lunatic with a goyim inferiority complex, feeling the need to approximate himself to who he’s been told are the special people of God by promising things he’s not entitled to promise and undermining a president – and by extension, the will of the American people – this haystack theologian and corncrib prophet will do exactly that, inflaming Middle East tensions like lighting a whiskey still with the dried pages of Scofield Notes. His theology is as bankrupt, his hermeneutics are broke, and he reads the Bible like Mad-Libs, shoving the Holy Scripture into whatever place is required to morally indebt the greatest nation in the history of mankind to a desert war cult founded by honest-to-God terrorists. Not even John Nelson Darby could have foreseen a time that someone this riotously stupid could risk the lives of so many people based upon the presumption that the best way to love Jews is to provide them bombs to blow up the literal genetic ancestors of Abraham (the Palestinians).
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