| This bloke must have an even bigger hat than Darren. 10:50 - Feb 21 with 437 views | NthQldITFC |
https://www.theguardian.com/us
'Carlson – who recently made disputed claims that he was detained at Tel Aviv airport in Israel – asked Huckabee about a biblical verse in which God promises Abraham that his descendants will receive land “from the wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates – the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites”.
Carlson pointed out that this area in modern geography would include “like, basically the entire Middle East”.
“The Levant … Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon – it’d also be big parts of Saudi Arabia and Iraq,” Carlson said.
Huckabee said: “I’m not sure it would go that far, but it would be a big piece of land.”
He continued: “Israel is a land that God gave, through Abraham, to a people that he chose. It was a people, a place and a purpose.”
Pressed by Carlson on whether Israel has the right to that land, Huckabee responded: “It would be fine if they took it all.”
That a senior diplomat of the world's biggest power can make that kind of hyper-inflammatory statement on the grounds that some fantasy character is quoted in a very old book as making a promise two or three thousand years ago is a sad indictment on the human race and its intellectual evolution.
Reined in by *ucker Carlson, ffs! |  |
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| This bloke must have an even bigger hat than Darren. on 10:54 - Feb 21 with 402 views | GlasgowBlue |
The bloke is unfit to be US Ambassador to Israel. How can US policy even be pretended to be objective? |  |
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| This bloke must have an even bigger hat than Darren. on 11:22 - Feb 21 with 308 views | StokieBlue |
Saw this earlier, he's a shockingly inappropriate appointment for the role.
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| This bloke must have an even bigger hat than Darren. on 13:08 - Feb 21 with 203 views | Guthrum |
Quite apart from the fact that Isaac was not the only child of Abraham. Ishmael also was, which, traditionally, would include the Arabs among his descendents.
Not to mention that in Christian theology (and Huckabee claims to be one), they are also included as the spiritual heirs of Abraham. |  |
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