By Catholics for Catholics
Last week, political commentator Tucker Carlson released an interview he filmed in the Jerusalem airport with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. In his monologue, Tucker detailed a number of circumstances about the interview that he found bizarre.
First, the US embassy did not provide security. Tucker said his team then sought to use private security, but asked if a representative from the office would simply ride with their private security from the airport to the US embassy, which is where the interview was originally scheduled to occur. The embassy office refused.
According to Tucker, the office then notified Tucker’s team that Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs would now be in charge of arranging the logistics of the interview. “Well, this was within 24 hours of the Deputy Foreign Minister Sharon Haskell releasing a video calling me an anti-semite and an enemy of Israel,” Tucker claimed, so he immediately felt uncomfortable.
After compromising to hold the interview in the diplomatic welcoming center of the Jerusalem airport, Tucker and Huckabee recorded their discussion. As Tucker’s team was getting ready to leave after the interview, Tucker explained that Israeli security detained some of his team members, withheld their passports, took them into rooms and gave them the “third degree,” asking them about what Tucker and Huckabee discussed, if Tucker has an office, where it is located, etc.
Some poor catechized Catholics and the vast majority of protestants, like @GovMikeHuckabee , have tragically bought the dispensationalist heresy that have slaved so many noble Americans to devout themselves to a foreign country based on an erroneous biblical interpretation. This… pic.twitter.com/O64qKfHxJd
— Catholics for Catholics 🇺🇲 (@CforCatholics) February 20, 2026
The first topic Huckabee and Tucker discussed in the published interview was why Huckabee had a meeting with the “most dangerous spy in American history” last year, Jonathan Pollard. In the 1980s, Pollard, a U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, sold American secrets to the Israelis, allegedly including battle plans which were then apparently given to the Soviets. Pollard was arrested and served 30 years in prison and was released in 2015, but Huckabee advocated for the release in 2011. In an interview in 2021, Pollard said he would encourage young Jews in America’s security industry to spy for Israel.
The White House was apparently unaware that Huckabee was planning to meet with Pollard in 2025. Huckabee describes the meeting as innocent, and that Pollard simply wanted to thank him in person for sending a sympathetic note after his wife passed away.
Tucker then turned to the topic of Jeffrey Epstein. During the interview, Tucker incorrectly claimed that Israel’s President Herzog had visited Epstein’s Island and later retracted that claim and apologized. But with regard to Jeffrey Epstein himself, Huckabee was unwilling to acknowledge Epstein’s ties to Mossad or the Israeli government.
Tucker attempted to nail down a clear answer from Huckabee as to understanding who exactly has a claim to the land that currently encompasses Israel’s borders, trying to pinpoint if it is a religious heritage or ethnic claim that defines ownership. The two discussed various biblical references and political events from the 20th century.
Tucker mentioned Genesis 15 where God makes a covenant with Abraham and promises him and his descendents the land from the Nile to the Euphrates rivers and asked if the modern day Israeli state has the right to this land, which of course encompasses much of the Middle East. Stunningly, Huckabee said, “it would be fine if they took it all.”
Tucker spent time discussing the fact that the state of Israel was founded by secular leaders, many of whom were avowed atheists with no genealogy linking them to the land. He mentioned that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s parents did not speak Hebrew and were from Eastern Europe.
Tucker continued to challenge Huckabee on the claims of the Israeli government to the land, drawing a clear contradiction: if ethnicity (Jewish heritage and lineage) – not religion – is what grants your claim to the land in Israel, why is the Bible used as justification for supporting the modern Israeli political state? What are the rights of the Christians who lost their homes in the Holy Land in 1948 and after?
Huckabee said the Christian population is increasing in Israel, and claimed that Christians “are not doing very well” in Muslim-controlled countries. When Tucker correctly pointed out that there are more Christians in Qatar than Israel, Huckabee rejected this claim. Over the past several months, Tucker has interviewed multiple Christians living in the Holy Land who have consistently conveyed cordial relationships with Muslims.
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