Introduction
TUCKER CARLSON: We’re about to play you an interview we did with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee two days ago in Israel… So this interview with Mike Huckabee came about a couple of weeks ago on Twitter… Mainly, the United States is moving toward a big war, a real war with Iran, a regime change war, the biggest war we’ve had since the invasion of Iraq in the spring of 2003. And Israel is driving that… Huckabee’s behavior in the last year in Jerusalem as the ambassador has been very, very striking. He famously had a meeting with the most damaging spy in American history.
Interview
CARLSON: Abraham’s descendants are the ones who have the right to have this land. Correct?
HUCKABEE: Yes.
CARLSON: Why don’t we do genetic testing on everybody in the land and find out who Abraham’s descendants are? It’s really simple. We’ve cracked the human genome. We can do that. Why don’t we do that? Would you be against doing that?
HUCKABEE: I have no idea what that would prove.
CARLSON: It would prove who Abraham’s descendants are, and who has a right to live here and who doesn’t, according to the theology you just explained.
CARLSON: You have three times that God gave this land to this people. And so it is entirely fair for me with respect to ask, what land are you talking about? Because I just read Genesis 15, as I have many times, and that land, I think it says from the Nile to the Euphrates, which is once again basically the entire Middle East. So God gave that land to his people, the Jews, or he didn’t. You’re saying he did. What does that mean? Does Israel have the right to that land? Because you’re appealing to Genesis. You’re saying that’s the original deed.
HUCKABEE: It would be fine if they took it all.
CARLSON: So God gave that land — basically the entire Middle East.
HUCKABEE: They don’t want to take it over. They’re not asking to take it over.
CARLSON: What about people who convert to Judaism? Would they have a right?
HUCKABEE: No, they wouldn’t have the right. They wouldn’t have the right to go into a country on land that doesn’t belong to them and literally, ethnically cleanse it and steal it from the Palestinian people. No, they wouldn’t have the right to do that.
CARLSON: Everyone I’ve talked to in preparation for this has said the same thing. Jonathan Pollard.
CARLSON: (Regarding Netanyahu’s invocation of Amalek) That is genocide. God is calling for the genocide of the Amalekites. And the prime minister of Israel described the Palestinians in Gaza as Amalek. That’s calling for genocide. And you know that.
HUCKABEE: I totally disagree. Tell me then what it means. Because if Israel wanted to commit genocide, they could have done it in two and a half hours.
CARLSON: When you say that at the outset of a war, and then you wind up with massive civilian casualties… then I have to ask you, what is that? And is that kind of thinking consistent with Western values and with Christianity? Do we as Christians believe it’s okay to kill people’s children?
HUCKABEE: No, we don’t. And neither do the Israelis because they didn’t go after their children.
CARLSON: How many kids were killed?
HUCKABEE: I don’t know. I’m sure it was thousands. And it’s thousands too many.
HUCKABEE: The only available numbers come from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, which is dubious.
HUCKABEE: (Defending the IDF) The military sends text messages, drops leaflets, and makes phone calls before strikes. Nobody does that. The US doesn’t do that.
CARLSON: Your dig at the United States is very revealing. Because your priorities are very clear… I said many civilians have been killed, and you said right in the middle of your elaborate defense of the IDF’s killing of civilians, including children, you said they do a better job than the United States does. That’s my country and my government.
HUCKABEE: (Gesturing to his lapel) What flag am I wearing here?
CARLSON: Well, that’s, of course, my flag as well.
CARLSON: You don’t know the numbers, do you?
HUCKABEE: From the conversations that I’ve had with the people who fought there. I don’t have the exact numbers for you.
HUCKABEE: One of the reasons I’m so grateful President Trump and Secretary Rubio are pushing hard, trying to get rid of the ICC and the ICJ is because they have become rogue organisations that are no longer really about an equal application of law.
Aftermath
HUCKABEE (later clarifying his comments): “It was somewhat of a hyperbolic statement.”
HUCKABEE (on social media): “The version Tucker put on X edited out my full response. Truth matters to many of us. Apparently not to Tucker. Sad.”
Source Note: This transcript is compiled from multiple news reports summarizing the February 2026 interview. The most extensive source for dialogue comes from The Jerusalem Post’s coverage , The Young Turks’ coverage , and The Singju Post’s partial transcript . Additional context is drawn from Al Jazeera , The Express Tribune , and TheWrap .
