Middle East Condemns Mike Huckabee's Biblical Land Claims

Middle Eastern nations and organizations issued a joint condemnation after US Ambassador Mike Huckabee suggested Israel has biblical rights to territory from the Nile to the Euphrates.While Mike Huckabee later described his comments to Tucker Carlson as hyperbolic, leaders in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey denounced the rhetoric as a dangerous violation of international law.Israeli Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana defended the ambassador and accused Tucker Carlson of manipulation as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a $31B gas deal with Egypt.These diplomatic tensions coincide with domestic unrest in Israel, where police protected female soldiers from religious mobs in Bnei Brak and politicians were removed from the Knesset.