NEWSBITE 25.2.2026
“The Apple of His Eye”
“…for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye” (Zechariah 2:8b)
The whole Muslim world is up in arms at a comment made by US Ambassador Mike Huckabee, when being interviewed in a podcast by Tucker Carlson was asked about the biblical promise to Abraham that his descendants would inherit land stretching “from the Nile to the Euphrates the US Ambassador made the statement that “Israel would be justified in controlling vast swabs of the Middle East. It would be fine if they took it all.”
Mike Huckabee, a Bible believing Christian who supports Israel from the Word of God, was giving a Biblical interpretation of the Land given to Abraham and his decedents through the lineage of Isaac and Jacob, not through Ishmael and Esau, the fathers of the Arab nations.
The comment which was his own personal view which was based on the Bible caused a chain reaction throughout the whole Middle-East and unleashed a political storm in relation to how the whole Muslim world really views Israel.
The comment also had the White House scrambling behind the scenes seeking to pacify the leaders of the Islamic world, which are already involved indirectly with the situation concerning the flashpoint between the United States with Iran, a situation which has the high probability of escalating into a regional war that may well see other non-Islamic nations drawn into the possibility of another world war.
Previously President Trump had reassured the Arab world that he did not support Israel sovereignty over Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), the heartland of Israel. He also said that the United States Middle-East policy had not changed.
When you consider the reaction of the whole Islamic world to the comment made by Ambassador Mike Huckabee it clearly reveals the real agenda of global Islam where Israel is concerned.
Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and the League of Arab States were outraged at the statement which speaks volumes about the Arab world’s hatred of the Jews. In separate statements they called Ambassador Huckabee’s statement as “extremist and provocative and not in line with the US position.”
Saudi Arabia strongly condemned the remarks by the US Envoy to Israel calling them dangerous and illegal and a threat to regional stability while reaffirming their support for a so called ‘Palestinian’ State. They firmly rejected Israel’s right to control Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) or to separate it from the Gaza Strip.
Egypt denounced the envoy’s comments as “a blatant violation of international law.” They also stated that Israel has no sovereignty over what they call “occupied Palestinian territories”.
The Palestinian Authority said that Huckabee’s words “contradict US President Donald Trump’s rejection of Israel annexing the West bank as they call it.
Kuwait categorically rejected what they called “such dangerous and provocative statements” which they also said constituted a flagrant violation of the principles of International law and the United Nations Charter and posing a grave threat to the security and stability of the region, and reaffirmed its support for the so called “Palestinian self-determination and state based on 1967 borders before the six-day war,” something that would expose Israel to its implacable Islamic enemies.
Oman condemned the comments as “illegitimate” and warned that they “undermine peace and threaten regional stability. Oman also stated their support of giving the Arabs their independent state based on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital and the so called “end of the occupation of all Arab territories.”
The Arab League said the envoy’s remarks “violated all the basic principles and established norms of diplomacy, as well as defying logic and reason.” They also added that such statements undermined the Arab states meeting under the auspices of the Board of Peace to launch the serious peace process. Most of the ‘Board’ if established would be Islamic.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation condemned the statements made by the US envoy as “dangerous and irresponsible comments” that could “further escalation.” They also added that the envoy’s comments were “an unacceptable call for the expansion of Israel that were based on a false and rejected historical and ideological narrative.” They further added that such remarks “fuel extremist ideological rhetoric which would fuel extremism and encourage Israel to increase its so called annexation of so called Palestinian territory.
As for President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu they have both so far remained silent on the comments made by Mike Huckabee.
The reality of the comments has undoubtedly caused “a Knee jerk reaction” from the Islamic nations throughout the whole of the Middle-East and beyond.
History has a way of repeating itself. Conflicts between Islamic armies and Western nations have spanned over 1,300 years, ranging from the early 8th-century Umayyad conquest of Hispania and the Crusades (11th–13th centuries) to Ottoman expansion into Europe. Modern conflicts, largely driven by Islamist ideology, have occurred over the last 30 years.
Today the Islamic nations it would seem are on a collision course with the west. A global caliphate is the underlining agenda of Islam today as it has always been, and is a major factor in the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood. It poses a clear and present danger for western democracy and especially for Israel and wider Christendom.
Israel is the only nation that recognizes that the whole land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people, an inheritance given to them by God through the Patriarch Abraham and passed on to the decedents of Isaac and Jacob. The whole land of Israel from the Wadi of Egypt to the River Euphrates and everything in between including Judea and Samaria (the West bank) has been bequeathed by God to Israel and the land to be for the Jewish people as “an everlasting possession” (Genesis 15:17-21; 17:7-8).
As for the United States their Middle-East policy President Trump has bluntly stated, “I am against annexation” and “It’s not going to happen.” In late 2025, he warned that Israel would “lose all of its support from the US” if it proceeded with formal annexation.” Following comments by U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee suggesting Israel had a “right” to much of the region,” the White House and State Department clarified these were his personal views and did not reflect a shift in official U.S. policy. One asks the question; “does the Trump Administration really have Israel’s back?”
The day is rapidly approaching when Israel will no longer be able to go along with the political agenda of the United States especially when the Board of Peace for Gaza for the most part is made up of Islamic leaders. As for Hamas, they will not give up their weapons and plans to attack the Jewish people any time soon and Prime Minister Netanyahu knows this.
The time will come and possibly very soon when Israel will have to stand alone. However, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob will not abandon His covenant people. Yes, He will allow their enemies to afflict them, not to destroy them, but to bring His people back to Himself and to the Messiah our Lord Jesus.
Difficult times are ahead for Israel and the wider Body of Messiah and the world at large. God will spiritually refine Israel, and they will be saved through their encounter with the Messiah our Lord Jesus when He returns to once again stand on the Mount of Olives.
God will bring them under the kingship of the Messiah after He has returned and utterly destroy those armies of the nations that have attacked Israel and savaged the people of Jerusalem (Zechariah Chapters 12, 13, 14).
US Ambassador Mike Huckabee may not be in favour, even with the current US Administration, let alone with the whole Islamic world, however, what he stated was the eternal Biblical truth of God’s unchanging Word and a refutation of Satan’s agenda to destroy Israel, a feat he will never achieve!
Satan and all who follow him in this world that hate the Jews will learn that it does not pay to mess with Israel, God’s covenant people that are still “the apple of His Eye” (Deuteronomy 32:10) (Psalm 17:8) (Zechariah 2:8). Selah.
