In a statement released on Sunday, General Samir Farag expressed that the implications of Huckabee’s remarks extend beyond Egypt’s security, posing a broader threat to Arab national security, particularly concerning Saudi Arabia, which Huckabee claimed would lose a third of its territory.Farag noted that these comments have sparked widespread discontent across the Arab and Islamic world, with numerous countries condemning them. He urged U.S. President Donald Trump to take action against Huckabee to mitigate the repercussions of these statements in the Arab world.The Egyptian general asserted that Egypt is well aware of its borders as defined in the Camp David Accords and that no one is permitted to violate them. He dismissed the concept of ‘Greater Israel’ as nothing more than a falsehood that Egypt chooses to ignore, despite its long history of being discussed since the time of David Ben-Gurion.He emphasized that Egypt possesses a strong military capable of effectively securing its borders, asserting that no one in Israel has the right to alter these boundaries. The Arab Republic of Egypt has officially condemned Huckabee’s statements.The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that Huckabee’s comments included claims regarding Israel’s right to Arab territories, which blatantly violate international law and the United Nations Charter. Egypt expressed astonishment at these remarks, highlighting their contradiction with the views presented by Trump and the twenty points related to ending the Gaza conflict, as well as the Peace Council conference held in Washington.Egypt reiterated that Israel holds no sovereignty over the occupied Palestinian territories or any other Arab land and firmly rejected any attempts to annex the West Bank or separate it from Gaza, as well as the expansion of settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories.Arab and Islamic governments have condemned the U.S. ambassador’s statements, which suggested that Israel has the right to seize vast portions of the Middle East based on biblical claims. In response to a question from conservative host Tucker Carlson about whether Israel has sovereignty over a region that effectively includes the entire Middle East, Huckabee stated, ‘If it takes all of it, that’s fine.’More than twelve countries, including Jordan, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates, issued a joint statement labeling these views as ‘dangerous and provocative,’ posing a threat to efforts aimed at ending the Gaza war.The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs also condemned Huckabee’s remarks regarding the legitimacy of seizing Arab-Islamic lands ‘from the Nile to the Euphrates’ by the Israeli regime. A spokesperson for the ministry emphasized that the Islamic Republic of Iran in alignment with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation denounces these ‘extremist ideological rhetoric’ which emboldens the occupying regime in its ongoing crimes against Palestinians and continued aggressions against regional countries.
