MIDDLE EASTERN countries erupted in condemnation of the US ambassador in Tel Aviv over the weekend after he claimed Tel Aviv had a right to much of the region.

Mike Huckabee was on US rightwinger Tucker Carlson’s show on Friday. Mr Carlson pointed to biblical claims that the descendants of Abraham would receive land between the Euphrates and Nile — currently occupied by modern-day Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

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