SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: Huckabee’s remark would go down as the single most catastrophic sentence in the history of U.S. diplomacy. He said the quiet part out loud: Israel has a mandate to relocate or rule over 310 million indigenous people and occupy 400,000 square miles of the Mideast.

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I’ve appreciated Mike for a long time. He gave me a letter of recommendation for law school, gave me an invite to his Governor’s Gala, and for a brief time I was tasked with keeping his son, John Mark, occupied and away from the cameras along with his handler, Lt. Col Dallas Woods (the boy is different). The Huckabees are kind people. But yesterday, I said that Huckabee’s remark would go down as the single most catastrophic sentence in the history of U.S. diplomacy. He said the quiet part out loud: Israel has a mandate to relocate or rule over 310 million indigenous people and occupy 400,000 square miles of the Mideast. Called “Greater Israel” by the Israelis, it’s the real Zionist ambition. When the Jews speak of Zionism, they don’t mean Israel’s current boundaries, but all of it. And for 50 years, we have given assurances to our Mideast allies we don’t support the Israeli’s plan to invade and conquer them. And today, we see the consequences of Huckabee’s Jew-Fetish Theology. Since uttering that idiotic sentence, the U.S.-Israeli alliance has been denounced by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Lebanon, Palestine, Turkey, Indonesia, Pakistan, and by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the League of Arab States (LAS), and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). And they should denounce it, because the claim was outrageous. It makes the U.S. into a liar. It makes our foreign policy captive to a bizarre 19th eschatology invented by an Irish cult. And the consequences couldn’t be greater. The United States relies on working relationships with all of these nations. Egypt and Jordan are central to regional stability and our peace deals; Egypt controls access to the Suez Canal - which we must have remain open. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman are key energy producers and host our critical military bases across the region. Turkey is a NATO member and controls access to the Black Sea. Pakistan is a freaking nuclear power. Indonesia is the world’s largest Muslim-majority democracy and our partner in the Indo-Pacific. If the U.S. loses cooperation with them it will be catastrophic for our energy markets, military basing, counterterrorism, and global trade. We are already a hairs breadth from losing U.S. dominance in the Mideast and China and Russia would take those nations into their pocket overnight. And this blooming jack-hat just declared that Israel has a divine right to their land. Have you got ANY IDEA how much the leaders of these nations personally sacrifice to work with the U.S.? Their citizens loathe Israel (for many good reasons) and working with the U.S. costs those national leaders politically. Maintaining security partnerships, intelligence sharing, military base agreements, energy coordination, and diplomatic alignment with the U.S. exposes them to accusations of betrayal from their citizens and political rivals, clerics, and local media. Some of them are hanging on by a thread, with anti-U.S. political opponents waiting in the wings. A statement as dumb as Huckabee’s literally has the capacity to throw the entire Mideast into chaos as those leaders are replaced with extremists or Russian puppets. Huckabee’s claim was not a gaffe. It was a tragic display of what happens when you place a Dispensational cult follower into a position of authority in a Mideast embassy. He needs recalled immediately and replaced with an ambassador who holds to historic Christian theology and has loyalty to U.S. interests rather than Israel’s bloodlust and bottomless greed.

7:23 AM · Feb 23, 2026