Tucker: Will we be safe in Israel, the most violent country in the world?
Part 1 of 3 segments on the Tucker/Huckabee Interview
The title is exactly how Tucker Carlson described the country where he was scheduled to interview U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee, who extended an invitation to him to “come speak to him rather than speak about him” (without accuracy).
The 2-hour 45-minute session begins with Tucker’s back story of this trip, outlining the lack of security assurances he felt that should have been granted him, in “the most violent country in the world.”
What a great relief that must have been to Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Haiti, North Korea and the Central African Republic, all listed among the most savage places in existence.
But, unlike Israel, they are not fighting seven nations, according to Carlson, who omitted the minor detail of their first attacking Israel.
This interview revealed the master manipulation of Carlson who seems to enjoy making provocative statements, almost for effect.
The same nation that organizes rescue teams, at a moment’s notice, as soon as natural disasters hit, somehow is inhabited by violent predators who instigate wars for sport. How does anyone respond to such utter nonsense. In the case of Huckabee, he refused to be baited into absurd and outlandish accusations.
Tucker, who is, by now, probably guilty of believing his own press releases, was not a happy camper that he didn’t receive the red-carpet treatment, accompanied by a security entourage or, at the very least, a government representative, who would have escorted him in proper style to the Jerusalem Embassy for the interview.
Consequently, feeling unsafe “in the world’s most violent country,” he opted to conduct the meeting at a designated diplomatic area in Ben Gurion Airport, described by him as dirty and ratty.
The Mike Huckabee interview, and the truth about America’s deeply unhealthy relationship with Israel.
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 21, 2026
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Of course, nothing would have been suitable for Tucker, who has received V.I.P treatment just about everywhere he’s traveled, including Qatar. But when you’ve spent the last couple of years bashing Israel and the Jews, why does it come as a huge surprise that he was not treated as royalty.
Hard-pressed to find anything he could compliment or admire, Tucker took note of the t-shirt clad security people who clearly made a disappointing impression on him.
And now it’s easy to see why the details of this back story, preceding the actual interview, were so crucial in setting the mood of the ill-treatment he felt was given to him and his team.
And why not? That victimization he claims they experienced helps to paint Israel as the immoral place he deems it to be. This was a constant insinuation during the nearly 3 hour-long interrogation – always asking how anyone, let alone, Huckabee could support the unworthy IDF which has killed “thousands of children.”
Nothing to back up the accusations, short of using the phony Hamas estimates, but if you are truly the most violent country in the world, isn’t killing innocent people what you do best?
The interview continued into a combative blame fest, even though it began with an apology for Tucker’s previous statement where he expressed great loathing for those he referred to as “Christian Zionists.”
Only this time around, his tune changed dramatically. Referring to them as very nice people, he must’ve forgotten that the Christian Zionists he now claims to have always liked, were those he described as being inflicted with a brain virus just a few short months ago.
Although Tucker insisted over and over, throughout the interview, that he is not an antisemite or a Jew-hater, it’s hard to reconcile that when your first order of business is to reference Jonathan Pollard and Jeffrey Epstein, as if to already set the table with two of the most unsavory Jewish characters that one could think of. Undoubtedly, also for effect?
After a while, the subject returned to Christian Zionists, with Huckabee, wisely suggesting that the term be defined in order to have a proper understanding of the words.
While both agreed that a “Christian” is a follower of Jesus, it’s not clear if Tucker accepted the definition of “Zionist,” as being the right for Jewish people to have a homeland where they can live with security and safety.
In fact, rather than answer Huckabee’s first question, as to whether the Jews have the right to live in Israel, Tucker posed his own question, “Where does that right for Israel to exist come from?
From that point, the manipulation was breathtaking as he attempted to completely discredit the Jewish people along with their homeland. As Genesis 15 entered the discussion, outlining all of the land which God bequeathed to Abraham and his descendants, Tucker reminded Huckabee that this area is not the tiny sliver of Israel in 2026 but also encompasses Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Now the question becomes, does Israel have the right to appropriate those countries to enlarge itself at their expense, and, in the process, disenfranchise millions of people?
Although completely hypothetical, as pointed out by Huckabee, who stated that Israel is not pursuing those lands, the newly defined borders was too delicious for Tucker to put aside. Nor did it matter that Huckabee emphasized the point that Israel has done nothing but relinquish territory over and over again for the sake of peace.
Tucker needed to bring the discussion to a place of absurdity in order to contend that Israel does not have the right to exist – certainly not in what is referred to as The Greater Israel (the full territory given to the Jewish people by God). Once that was established, he could then chisel away at the small strip of land, the size of New Jersey.
And that was what he did. Moving on to other European countries, the discussion swirled around whether or not any people had a right to their own land. Although it was hard to argue that no other group is being told to leave their land, so that another people could inhabit it, Tucker did his very best to insinuate that if others don’t have such a right, then why should Israel?
What becomes apparent is that, despite Tucker identifying himself as a Christian, the scriptures don’t seem to have any relevance for him in this discussion. Reducing everything to secular, humanistic arguments, is a more comfortable place for him to be, since that’s his familiar turf.
His next course of action was to discredit the Jewish people…
(Stay Tuned for Part 2 - Jews must undergo DNA testing to prove their right to live in Israel)
A former Jerusalem elementary and middle-school principal who made Aliyah in 1993 and became a member of Kibbutz Reim but now lives in the center of the country with her husband. She is the author of Mistake-Proof Parenting, based on the principles from the book of Proverbs - available on Amazon.
