By Laala Bechetoula
THEY HAVE FINALLY SAID IT OUT LOUD
For decades, whenever we pointed to the map of “Greater Israel” — stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates, encompassing not only Palestine but vast parts of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia — we were dismissed as conspiracy theorists, as paranoid, as antisemitic.
That era is over.
On February 20, 2026, Mike Huckabee — the official United States Ambassador to Israel, appointed by Donald Trump, a man who speaks with the authority of the world’s most powerful nation — sat down with journalist Tucker Carlson and confessed.
Carlson asked him about the biblical passage in which God promises Abraham’s descendants the land “from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates.” Huckabee did not deny it. He did not retreat. He did not hedge.
He answered with chilling calm: “It would be fine if they took it all.”
Let us translate what he said. The American ambassador just told the world that it is “fine” — indeed, that it would be “a good thing” — for Israel to conquer and annex Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt.
This is not a conspiracy theory. This is a recorded, broadcast, undeniable confession from the highest levels of the U.S. government.
THE MAP THEY NO LONGER DENY
The map Huckabee and Carlson discussed is not new. It is the same map Netanyahu carries in his pocket, the same map Smotrich has displayed in the Knesset — the same Smotrich who, upon hearing Huckabee’s words, responded publicly: “I ❤️ Huckabee.” No ambiguity. No subtext. Pure confirmation.
This so-called “Promised Land” includes: all of historical Palestine; the entire territory of Jordan; Lebanon, up to the Litani River; Syria, including the occupied Golan Heights; vast parts of Egypt (Sinai and the Nile Delta); Iraq, to the Euphrates River; and northwestern Saudi Arabia.
When Huckabee later attempted to walk back his statement, the contradiction was glaring. The first statement revealed the intent; the second was merely a diplomatic maneuver. The word, like a bullet once fired, does not return.
HUCKABEE IS NOT ALONE: THE TRIUMVIRATE THAT RUNS AMERICA
Some will claim Huckabee speaks only for himself. They are lying.
On September 15, 2025, at the City of David in occupied Jerusalem, Huckabee stood beside Netanyahu and Secretary of State Marco Rubio and delivered a sermon, not a diplomatic address: “4000 years ago, here in this city, on Mount Moriah, God chose His people… The people were the Jewish people. The place was Israel.”
On August 12, 2025, Netanyahu openly declared his commitment to the “Greater Israel” vision on i24NEWS. When presented with a pendant depicting the map from the Nile to the Euphrates, he responded: “Very much.” Huckabee’s February 2026 statement is simply the American echo of Netanyahu’s August 2025 declaration.
THE INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE: RARE UNITY — AND WESTERN SILENCE
Within hours, a joint statement from more than 14 countries — including Türkiye, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the UAE — along with the OIC (57 member states), the Arab League (22 members), and the GCC (6 members), declared unequivocally:
“ISRAEL HAS NO SOVEREIGNTY WHATSOEVER OVER THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY OR ANY OTHER OCCUPIED ARAB LANDS.”
Saudi Arabia condemned the statements as “extremist rhetoric.” Jordan described them as “absurd and provocative statements” amounting to “an assault on the sovereignty of the countries of the region.” Egypt rejected the remarks as a “blatant violation” of diplomatic norms.
And Washington? The White House did not respond. The State Department did not respond. The only official American voice was a single Embassy spokesperson in Jerusalem, who murmured that the remarks had been “taken out of context.”
Fourteen nations spoke. Fifty-seven member states of the OIC spoke. The world’s most powerful government said nothing.
And Europe? Also silent. No statement from Brussels. No rebuke from Paris or Berlin or London.
Silence, in diplomacy, is not neutrality. It is consent.
CHINA, RUSSIA, INDIA: THE GLOBAL SOUTH CALCULUS
China does not need to speak. It watches, records, and waits. Every silence from Washington is filed away in Beijing as evidence for a future it is already preparing.
Russia does not condemn. It amplifies. Every American contradiction is Russian oxygen.
India is the most explosive fracture of all. Prime Minister Modi arrives in Tel Aviv on February 25 — two days from now — to embrace Netanyahu, the man the ICC has indicted for war crimes. Meanwhile, in the streets of New Delhi, Mumbai, and Pune, hundreds of thousands of Indians — a country of 200 million Muslims and a civilization with a century-long tradition of solidarity with Palestine, from Gandhi to Nehru — are demanding Modi cancel his visit. Some were arrested. The government of the world’s largest democracy is suppressing its own people to maintain its alliance with a state condemned by the ICJ. Modi speaks. His people speak louder.
THE JEWS WHO SAY: NOT IN OUR NAME
J Street said it clearly when Huckabee was nominated: what is happening today is “a world that no one in our parents’ and grandparents’ time would recognize.” The overwhelming majority of Jewish Americans did not vote for this ambassador. They are being spoken for without their consent.
Jewish Voice for Peace occupied Grand Central Terminal with t-shirts reading “Not in our name” — and was subsequently labeled a “hate group” by the ADL. An ADL employee quit in protest, saying: “Those were Jewish people we were defaming.”
The ADL defamed Jews for opposing genocide. This sentence should stop the world.
A FINAL IRONY
After the interview, Tucker Carlson — the man who offered Huckabee the platform to say what American diplomacy had never said out loud — was briefly detained by Israeli airport authorities before being released. Even the useful voices are controlled, monitored, disposable.
THE FINAL INDICTMENT
To Western Media: The silence of your studios this week — when fourteen nations condemned and you said nothing — is the loudest thing you have ever broadcast.
To the International Community: America uses its veto every time. Now you know why. Those running American policy genuinely believe Israel is entitled to everything. And they no longer bother to hide it.
To World Jewry: You are not being protected. You are being used.
To Evangelical Christians: Huckabee’s vision is not Christian. It is Constantinian — the fusion of cross and sword, the sanctification of power. And it has led, inexorably, to genocide.
To Benjamin Netanyahu: History will not remember you as a visionary. It will remember you as the man who destroyed Gaza, starved children, bombed hospitals, and justified the unjustifiable.
To Mike Huckabee: “It would be fine if they took it all.” Say that to the mothers of Gaza. The stones cry out, yes. But the bones of the dead cry louder.
To the White House: You chose silence. That silence has been heard in Cairo, in Amman, in Beirut, in Baghdad, in Riyadh. Your silence was your statement.
THE AGE OF DE-WESTERNIZATION
As Algerian scholar Amir Nour writes in “The Monstrosity of Our Century” (Clarity Press, 2026):
“What we are witnessing today is not merely a ‘political conflict,’ but a historic turning point marking the collapse of Western hegemony that has dominated the world for three centuries. I call this transformation the dawn of a new era — the Age of De-Westernization — in which power is being redistributed, universal values are being rewritten, and moral balances are being redefined.”
Huckabee’s confession — and Washington’s silence in response — will be remembered as one of the funeral bells of Western hegemony.
THE MIRROR AND THE CHOICE
Nour also writes: “Palestine is not merely the cause of an oppressed and occupied people; it is the mirror of the world’s conscience.”
Huckabee has spoken. Netanyahu has declared. Smotrich has confirmed. The Arab and Islamic world has responded. The White House has chosen silence.
Now it is your turn.
WHAT WILL YOU SAY?
The age of Western impunity is not ending because the world has become more just. It is ending because the world has become more awake. And an awake world is the one thing empires cannot survive.
Sources: Anadolu Ajansı, U.S. Embassy Jerusalem, Jordan Times, Clarity Press, The Jerusalem Post, The Hill, J Street, CNN, Jewish Voice for Peace.
Laala Bechetoula is an independent Algerian writer and analyst.
23 February 2026
Source: countercurrents.org