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ANALYSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee\u00a0is not\u00a0mincing words when it comes to Tucker Carlson\u2019s criticism of President Donald Trump over Israel.\u00a0It would neatly fit into the category of \u201crighteous anger.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0really care what Tucker says to me or about me, but I care deeply that he so routinely disparages the President with either direct attacks or inferences that his policies are wrong and hurtful to America and that President Trump is getting pushed around by foreign governments,\u201d Ambassador Huckabee told me\u00a0by text exchange.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI take offense to that as someone who is\u00a0very proud\u00a0of the incredible job President Trump is doing in the US and around the world.\u00a0No president in my lifetime comes close, and for Tucker to\u00a0seek\u00a0to undermine him and his decisions is divisive and dangerous.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Huckabee went on to tell ALL ISRAEL NEWS Editor-in-Chief Joel Rosenberg that Carlson should not be anywhere near the White House. \u201cTucker repeatedly disparaged my president, my boss, and this is hurtful to the movement, the party, and the United States of America,\u201d the ambassador said.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI hope they quit letting him into the White House because, quite frankly, this is a person who is doing serious, significant damage to President Trump and to the administration.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Hours after those comments, ALL ISRAEL NEWS learned that, apparently, Tucker Carlson was indeed at the White House on Monday. Jake Sherman, founder of Punchbowl News, reported this on X, as did Jack Posobiec of Human Events.\u00a0As of this writing, there are no details as to why he was there or what was discussed, and the White House has not officially confirmed the visit. You can be sure\u00a0we\u2019ll\u00a0follow up.\u00a0<\/p>\n Carlson has undermined Trump and his policies\u00a0regarding\u00a0Israel in too many ways to count at this point.\u00a0The\u00a0plethora\u00a0of\u00a0accusations cut at the core of Trump\u2019s political identity \u2013 strength, independence, and control over his own foreign policy.\u00a0Somehow, Tucker Carlson believes\u00a0that\u00a0the strongest figure in modern American history\u00a0has gone\u00a0soft at the direction of\u00a0Israel\u2019s Prime Minister\u00a0Benjamin Netanyahu.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI highly take umbrage at the repeated insinuations and inferences, if not outright declarations, that President Trump is so weak that he is being led around by the Israeli government, and that he’s not really in charge, that the Israelis are,\u201d Huckabee told Rosenberg.<\/p>\n \u201cIt’s\u00a0one thing to say that he\u00a0doesn’t\u00a0like the job\u00a0I’m\u00a0doing \u2013 fine. But for him to make these accusations about President Trump, I find that inexcusable. I find it very damaging to America First movement, of which I feel a part of.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0damaging to what I believe to be the greatest president not only in my lifetime, but certainly the greatest president that has ever led the US-Israel relationship.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n RELATED:\u00a0Huckabee Addresses Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory Behind Tucker Carlson Question About Jews<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Trump has consistently framed support for Israel as aligned with American strength. During his first term, he moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, and brokered normalization agreements between Israel and several Arab states under the banner of the Abraham Accords.\u00a0<\/p>\n Those moves, among many others,\u00a0cemented his reputation as one of the most pro-Israel presidents in modern history. They also solidified a long-standing Republican consensus that backing Israel was both strategic and morally clear.\u00a0<\/p>\n However, Carlson is challenging that consensus.\u00a0Since Oct. 7, he has publicly questioned whether U.S. financial and military backing of Israel is in America\u2019s best interest.\u00a0<\/p>\n He has\u00a0also\u00a0called\u00a0Israel\u2019s military strategy in\u00a0Gaza\u00a0a \u201cgenocide\u201d\u00a0and questioned whether Washington risks drifting into another prolonged Middle East conflict.\u00a0<\/p>\n That framing\u00a0has created tension and strains\u00a0inside the GOP.\u00a0It pits traditional pro-Israel conservatives and many Evangelical voters against\u00a0this\u00a0rising populist, non-interventionist wing that is increasingly skeptical of foreign entanglements.\u00a0<\/p>\n While\u00a0Carlson\u00a0does not\u00a0hold\u00a0an elected\u00a0office, he does hold a huge megaphone.\u00a0At Fox News, Carlson routinely commanded one of the largest audiences in cable news. Since leaving,\u00a0he has built a\u00a0substantial\u00a0digital platform, reaching\u00a0tens of\u00a0millions.\u00a0<\/p>\n He frames his arguments around a consistent set of questions: Who benefits? Is this really America First? Are American leaders being manipulated by foreign interests, and those questions resonate with a segment of Republican voters who are wary of elite consensus and skeptical of overseas commitments.\u00a0<\/p>\n But\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0not just that. He routinely interviews either anti-Israeli voices or antisemitic ones. Popular\u00a0Conservative\u00a0Radio\u00a0Host Mark Levin\u00a0told me\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0beyond time for Republican leaders to\u00a0strongly rebuke\u00a0him.\u00a0\u201cTucker Carlson is so toxic and getting crazier and\u00a0more vile\u00a0by the hour,\u201d\u00a0Levin said. \u201cThe\u00a0administration and GOP must openly condemn him and distance themselves from him.\u00a0His racism, bigotry, antisemitism, and Christian-bashing, and his advocacy for Islamic regimes that fund terrorism, plus his psychotic behavior and serial lying, are cancerous to our country and our party.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n There are limits to Carlson\u2019s influence. Evangelical voters\u00a0remain\u00a0overwhelmingly pro-Israel, and many Republican lawmakers are firmly aligned with Trump\u2019s Israel record.\u00a0Trump\u2019s achievements\u00a0on\u00a0Israel\u00a0are\u00a0already\u00a0deeply embedded in his political legacy, something Carlson is actively trying to destroy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n So, will President Trump publicly rebuke Tucker? It\u00a0hasn\u2019t\u00a0happened yet. While there are reports that Trump privately urged Carlson to turn down the temperature on anti-Israel rhetoric,\u00a0there\u00a0hasn’t\u00a0been a\u00a0public severing\u00a0of\u00a0ties.\u00a0It is\u00a0no secret that Carlson\u00a0speaks to a\u00a0vocal, if not small,\u00a0segment of\u00a0the president\u2019s\u00a0base.\u00a0<\/p>\n So, is\u00a0Carlson\u00a0getting\u00a0too much credit\u00a0here? Maybe.\u00a0He is\u00a0not going to\u00a0dictate Trump\u2019s foreign policy. Tucker was against bombing Iranian nuclear sites back last\u00a0July,\u00a0but Trump did it anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n However,\u00a0he\u00a0does\u00a0influence\u00a0and set\u00a0the tone and direction\u00a0for\u00a0a meaningful slice of the Republican electorate, and\u00a0that\u2019s\u00a0harder to dismiss.\u00a0Any fracture in the MAGA movement is a political nightmare for the current state of the Republican Party.\u00a0And as Huckabee warned,\u00a0that would be divisive and dangerous and\u00a0possibly split\u00a0MAGA beyond repair.\u00a0<\/p>\n Republished by agreement with All Israel News.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Read Joel Rosenberg\u2019s full interview with Ambassador Huckabee here.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ANALYSIS U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee\u00a0is not\u00a0mincing words when it comes to Tucker Carlson\u2019s criticism of President Donald Trump over Israel.\u00a0It would neatly fit into the category of \u201crighteous anger.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cI\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0really care what Tucker says to me or about me, but I care deeply that he so routinely disparages the President with either direct<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[70,553,695,668,168,3355,5039,174,6417,1249],"class_list":["post-19742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jesus","tag-carlson","tag-hope","tag-house","tag-huckabee","tag-israel","tag-letting","tag-quit","tag-trump","tag-undermined","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}