AhlulBayt News Agency: Hamas has strongly condemned recent remarks by the U.S. ambassador to the occupied territories, saying his statements reflect a colonial mindset and expose Washington’s support for Zionist expansion and annexation projects.
In a statement on Saturday, the movement said Mike Huckabee’s comments represent “a clear embodiment of the colonial mentality on which the Zionist movement was founded.”
Hamas added that the ambassador’s remarks reveal “the depth of blatant American bias toward domination and annexation schemes, in violation of international law and the UN Charter, and in disregard for the sovereignty and rights of the region’s peoples.”
The reaction came after Huckabee said in an interview that it would be acceptable for Israel to expand across the region under the so‑called “Greater Israel vision.”
During the interview with Tucker Carlson, Huckabee said “it would be fine if they took it all,” referring to the regime’s ambition to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates.
He invoked what he described as the biblical “promised land” to justify such expansionist ideas, while Carlson noted that the descendants of Prophet Abraham include Jews, Christians, and Muslims.
When asked whether he supported Israel taking over the entire region, Huckabee claimed the regime was not seeking to do so, but added that if Israel were attacked and won a war, “that’s a whole other discussion.”
The “Greater Israel” concept envisions borders stretching from the Euphrates in Iraq to the Nile in Egypt, covering present‑day Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and parts of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has openly promoted such ideas, calling them a “historic and spiritual mission” in a 2025 interview.
Far‑right Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has also stirred controversy by appearing with maps showing Palestinian territories and parts of neighboring countries as part of Israel.
This week, Smotrich said they would seek to “encourage” Palestinians to leave their land and demanded the cancellation of the Oslo Accords, which were intended to secure Palestinian self‑determination.
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