Huckabee didn’t just mouth off - he put “take it all” on the record with a US job title attached, and now the White House owns the fallout. Right, so US envoy to Israel Mike Huckabee has sat down with Tucker Carlson and said, with regards to the so called Greater Israel project that, “It would be fine if they took it all.” He then hurriedly walked back on it, presumably realising what he’d said, describing it as “somewhat of a hyperbolic statement,” and says Israel is not looking to expand its territory. Well tell that to Syria when the settlers broke through, or Lebanon as happened just the other week or indeed to the West Bank as further land seizures get legalised in Israeli law and Gaza is under the yoke of Trump’s Board of peace, where Israel have a seat at the table, but no Palestinian does. Tucker Carlson has done something that interviewers almost never do in these roles though, which was to push the question until the answer was plain. He asks about the biblical land framing, he names the rivers, the Nile to the Euphrates and he forces Huckabee to say out loud whether the claim is acceptable. Huckabee gave the permissive answer, not the careful one. Carlson then spelt out what “all” would mean in modern geography, because anyone pretending this is harmless talk relies on people not visualising the map. Huckabee didn’t stop there either, he leans into the framing and only later tried to pull back. The recording is out there, its on social media for all to see, there’s no deniability that’ll pass muster. Of course it was the Cheeto dusted one himself, Donald Trump who appointed Huckabee to the post, begging the question who is the bigger fool here. Ambassadors are selected, nominated, and sent to represent an administration, they are not free agents hired by chance. If the ambassador is reckless, the appointment is reckless.