Tucker Carlson’s February 18 interview of the US Ambassador to the State of Israel, Mike Huckabee, aroused a storm of controversy over Huckabee’s endorsement of a maximalist Israeli claim to a biblically-defined territory between the Euphrates River (which flows through Syria and Iraq) and the “ Brook of Egypt” (roughly corresponding to the modern border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip according to most scholars, though identified with the Nile River in the interview): Carlson: Does Israel have the right to that land? Because you’re appealing to Genesis. You’re saying that’s the original deed