{"id":57708,"date":"2026-02-22T09:40:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=57708"},"modified":"2026-02-22T16:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:02:09","slug":"tucker-confronts-mike-huckabee-on-americas-toxic-relationship-with-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/22\/tucker-confronts-mike-huckabee-on-americas-toxic-relationship-with-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Carlson Confronts Mike Huckabee on America\u2019s Toxic Relationship With Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tucker Carlson interviewed US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee last week.\u00a0 \u00a0 In addition to the lengthy interview, Tucker details the treatment he and his crew received at Ben Gurion Airport.\u00a0 \u00a0They underwent intensive interrogation and detention by Israeli security, including them demanding to know the details of the interview and Tucker&#8217;s positions on various political issues (which are explained in the first 30 minutes of the this video).<\/p>\n<p>Huckabee&#8217;s remarks were quite alarming.\u00a0 \u00a0 At one point, he said that Israel has a right to conquer most of the Middle East.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cIt would be fine if they took it all.\u201d Huckabee told Tucker.\u00a0 Several nations have <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-ambassador-huckabee-middle-east-arab-muslim-e88a235c48bfb904f0ee7f8a72edf250\">sharply condemned the remarks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XS7itdfgNnU?si=jf2u1P9Pt9_B-4se\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tucker Carlson interviewed US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee last week.\u00a0 \u00a0 In addition to the lengthy interview, Tucker details the treatment he and his crew received at Ben Gurion Airport.\u00a0 \u00a0They underwent intensive interrogation and detention by Israeli security, including them demanding to know the details of the interview and Tucker&#8217;s positions on various [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[779],"class_list":["post-57708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57713,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57708\/revisions\/57713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57708"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=57708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}