How many times has the mask fallen since the beginning of the al-Aqsa Flood battle, exposing the depth of the conflict, its doctrinal roots, and its historical complexities? This time, however, the fall was neither gradual nor subtle. It was a resounding collapse of all illusions surrounding “American neutrality,” the “honest broker,” and the “two-state solution” long used as a topical anesthetic to numb the global conscience, facilitate normalization, and prolong dreams of an illusory peace.

The statements of the U.S. ambassador to the Israeli entity, Mike Huckabee (a former Baptist pastor), in an interview with right-wing conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, amounted to an explicit declaration that the “Land of Israel” extends from the Nile River in Egypt to the Euphrates River in Iraq and Syria—and that “it would be good” if it were entirely seized. These remarks represent a full exposure of the expansionist colonial project backed by the U.S. administration—not behind closed doors, but openly, voiced by a senior diplomat unconcerned with accountability.

Appointed personally by the American President Donald Trump, Huckabee carries the seal of a superpower over the jacket of a biblical preacher. Meeting Carlson at Ben Gurion Airport, he did not speak of drawing boundaries for peace, but rather preached a “kingdom of myth” stretching across geographic and historical borders that would erase entire countries from existence.

When asked about Zionist claims to Arab lands, the U.S. ambassador did not hesitate to invoke ancient myths to legitimize a Zionist kingdom, brushing aside diplomatic norms, state sovereignty, and the rights of peoples. With unflinching candor, he expressed what the ruling American elite believes and seeks to realize. In an elevated American tone, he stated: “I read Genesis 15—Abraham received a revelation from God… from the Euphrates to the Nile. That covers almost the entire Middle East,” adding, “There’s nothing wrong if they control it.”

Indeed, the U.S. ambassador left little for Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich to say. As described by the Zionist newspaper Haaretz in an opinion piece that seemed stronger than many Arab media positions: “What have you left for our rabbis and Ben-Gvir, Huckabee?”

With confidence rooted in declared belief, Huckabee spoke of Washington’s allies and regional normalization partners as though they were temporary tenants on the land of a “promised” covenant—casting aside the rhetoric of the “two-state solution” long used to soothe international outrage.

If Huckabee represents the far-right current within the U.S. administration, what of Israel’s “opposition”? Opposition leader Yair Lapid entered the fray, revealing that the dispute is not over ultimate objectives, which Zionists uniformly deem necessary to achieve. At a live press conference, when asked, “Do you support Israeli control from the Nile to the Euphrates?” Lapid replied without equivocation: “I have a biblical debate about what the original borders of the Land of Israel were… I support anything that allows Jews to have a wide, strong land and a safe haven.”

When pressed further—“Even Iraq?”—he answered: “The discussion is about security… beyond practical considerations, I believe our rights and presumed borders in the Land of Israel are defined by the Bible. Therefore, the borders are biblical.”

These statements once again confirmed the absence of genuine Zionist opposition within an entity united by religious myth and Torah-based narratives. The difference lies only in degrees of expansion and the pace of implementation—biblical mandate, scriptural authorization, and “Torah-defined” borders clear to all.

This episode is not merely a diplomatic slip of the tongue by an extremist envoy, but a manifestation of a systematic collapse of the Western moral order—hijacked by Zionism and plunged into depths unprecedented in human civilization. This is the same Western civilization that long proclaimed “human rights,” “rule of international law,” and “peaceful conflict resolution,” waging wars, toppling regimes, and battling nations in their name.

Huckabee—pointing to the American flag on his chest and declaring, “It’s my flag. It’s the flag I serve”—reveals a fused identity: imperial and Zionist intertwined. It was no coincidence that Carlson himself remarked, “This person does not represent my country; he represents Israel.”

More alarming than the statements themselves was the official American silence that persisted for days. When criticism mounted within U.S. media, the State Department offered justifications for its “Zionist pastor” ambassador—more ardently than some Jewish voices. The paradox remains: how can a high-ranking ambassador express “personal views,” as the U.S. State Department claimed, that contradict official policy, without being summoned or dismissed?

In the face of this brazen Zionism spoken in fluent American diction, official Arab positions lie prostrate—issuing timid statements framed in the vocabulary of “concern,” “condemnation,” and “denunciation,” while their supposed protector declares himself their usurper.

Haaretz, in a rare moment of candor, asked: “What have you left for our rabbis and Ben-Gvir, Huckabee?” Meanwhile, much of the official Arab media continues to treat the matter as a “gaffe” or “exaggeration” that can be remedied through “constructive dialogue.”

The U.S. ambassador declared—without room for interpretation—that Arab state sovereignty is mere “ink on paper,” and internationally recognized borders are “procedural formalities,” including those separating “ally” from “enemy.”

Do they realize that the “normalization” for which billions were spent and the Palestinian cause bartered has changed nothing in the ideologized Zionist mindset—except to embolden its greed and audacity?

What is unfolding today is a definitive unveiling of the American-Zionist project in the region—a project that recognizes neither geographic boundaries, nor the rights of peoples, nor international legitimacy. Instead, it rests on an alleged “divine promise” to a “chosen people” at the expense of entire nations.

From Washington to Tel Aviv, through Western capitals and Arab normalization hubs, Huckabee and other Zionist voices speak the same language—the lexicon of sacred appropriation, legitimate seizure, and necessary expansion. Yet the Arab world, instead of learning from this stark historical lesson, continues to wager on “restraint,” “wisdom,” diplomacy, and “avoiding confrontation,” even as confrontation appears inevitable and long overdue.

When the U.S. ambassador openly declares that your land is not yours and your sovereignty merely a temporary permit granted by “divine promise,” silence becomes betrayal—and protocol condemnation is not diplomacy, but preemptive surrender.

If the U.S. ambassador dares to speak this way publicly, what then is being planned behind closed doors?

What is certain is that Zionism today feeds on Arab silence and grows stronger from their weakness—meeting their protocol denunciations with explicit biblical assertions. When Zionists today act and speak without concealment, when will Arabs realize that a partner of Zionism can never be their ally?