Christian Zionism is Dying
Ihear people say those who bless Israel will be blessed,” Tucker Carlson said with a signature head tilt to a smiling but visibly annoyed Mike Huckabee. “I know it’s a reference to Genesis,” Carlson said in his much-discussed February 2026 interview with the U.S. ambassador to Israel.
“I don’t understand the connection between that concept and modern Israel and the geopolitical world.” “I agree with you as a Christian,” the journalist pressed on his eponymous podcast, “that God promised this land from modern-day Iraq to modern-day Egypt to this people, the Jews — to Abram’s descendants, as it says in Genesis 15.” But, he asked the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, “Who are his descendants now? And how do we know who they are?”