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Fourteen Governments Answer the Ambassador

When the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, told Tucker Carlson on 20 February 2026 that "It would be fine if they took it all" (meaning the land from the Nile to the Euphrates), the countries sitting on that land did not treat it as a slip of the tongue. Within a day, Jordan's Foreign Ministry had issued a formal condemnation, and fourteen Arab and Muslim governments had signed a joint statement from Doha. For Americans this matters for a practical reason: several of these governments host U.S. troops, keep the Suez Canal and Gulf oil moving, and cooperate with American intelligence. Their trust rests on believing the United States does not back the redrawing of their borders.

Evidence rating: CONFIRMED (the statements are quoted by Anadolu, the Times of India, and Jewish Insider).

Jordan​

Jordan is on every version of the wide map, and Revisionist Zionists once claimed its land outright as the "other bank" of the Jordan River (see Jabotinsky and "Both Banks of the Jordan"). Its Foreign Ministry called Huckabee's remarks "absurd and provocative" and said they "constitute a violation of diplomatic norms, an infringement on the sovereignty of states in the region, and a blatant breach of international law and the UN Charter." It added that the comments "contradict the publicly declared position of US President Donald Trump rejecting annexation of the occupied West Bank," and called for implementing "the US president's plan and UN Security Council Resolution 2803, instead of issuing absurd, escalatory, irresponsible statements that carry no legal value or effect" (A News / Anadolu, 21 February 2026).

Notice what Amman did. It did not argue with Israel. It argued with the United States, reminding Washington that its own ambassador had contradicted its own president.

The Doha joint statement​

"In a joint statement issued Saturday night from Doha, the foreign ministries of Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkiye, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Lebanon, Syria and the State of Palestine described the comments as 'dangerous and inflammatory,'" a "flagrant violation of the principles of international law and the Charter of the United Nations" that "pose a grave threat to the security and stability of the region" (Times of India, February 2026). The ministries said the comments "directly contradict the vision put forward by US President Donald Trump, as well as the US Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict."

The list is worth reading slowly. It includes Egypt and Jordan, the two Arab states at peace with Israel; Saudi Arabia, which Washington has spent years pressing to normalize relations with Israel; the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, which already signed the Abraham Accords; Qatar, host of the largest U.S. air base in the region; and Turkey, a NATO ally. Jewish Insider noted the statement was part of "a response from a group of Arab and Muslim states and multinational organizations, led by Saudi Arabia" (Jewish Insider, 23 February 2026).

A pattern, not a one-off​

This was the second time in six months. In August 2025, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told i24 television that he connects "very much" to the vision of Greater Israel, foreign ministers from 31 states and the secretaries-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the Arab League, and the Gulf Cooperation Council condemned him (see How 31 Governments Answered "Very Much"). The Saudi former intelligence chief, Prince Turki al-Faisal, had warned only days before the Huckabee interview: "We see Israel, for example, publicly declaring that it wants to develop what they call 'Greater Israel' from river to river, from the Nile to the Euphrates" (Israel Hayom, 15 February 2026).

The commentator JD, in a long essay viewed 125,000 times, spelled out the American cost: "Every one of those relationships, and a dozen others like them, depends on those governments being able to tell their populations, with a straight face, that the United States does not actually support the territorial dismemberment of the Arab world" (JD on X, 21 February 2026). When the American ambassador says the opposite on camera, every one of those governments has to explain it at home.

Status: Mike Huckabee is alive. Donald Trump is alive. Prince Turki al-Faisal is alive. Benjamin Netanyahu is alive. Nothing on this page states that any of them committed a crime.

Sources​

Research captures: twitter/t19__v226.md, twitter/t19__v228.md, twitter/t29__v342.md

Last Updated: 2026-09-26

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