OLIVIER TOURON / AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Israel just lit a diplomatic match—and tossed it straight into the Middle East. In a jaw-dropping interview with Tucker Carlson that aired Friday, U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee appeared to endorse the idea that Israel has a biblical right to much of the modern Middle East, triggering swift condemnation from Arab and Muslim nations. Carlson invoked the Book of Genesis and told Huckabee that God’s promise to Abraham would today encompass land stretching “from the Nile to the Euphrates”—essentially sweeping across Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and large swaths of Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Read more at The Daily Beast.