From the Nile to the Euphrates 24 February 2026, 7 Adar 5786.
See Also: Borders of Israel
Contents:
1. The Interview with Huckabee. Descendants of Abraham.
2. DNA may be Wrong.
3. Bibi Netanyahu and T. Carlson.
4. Conquering the Promised Land.
5. Carlson as an "Agent of Qatar," and his Past Misdeeds and Crazy Allegations.
6. The Lost Ten Tribes (LTTs) and the USA.
7. The Temple and the Jews.
Extracts from and Article by
Rabbi Pesach Wolicki.
1. The Interview with Huckabee. Descendants of Abraham.
Recent A Media Personality, Tucker Carlson, interviewed the US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee.
See:
"Tucker Confronts Mike Huckabee on America's Toxic Relationship With Israel."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS7itdfgNnU
Unlike regular interviews it was more an exchange of differing opinions.
Tucker Carlson, possibly an Enemy of the Jews and the Israelite Nation, suggested that DNA should be used to see who had ancestral ties to the region and who did not. Carlson does not really care whether or not the Israelis descended from Biblical Israelites. He simply dislikes Jews
Tucker referred to "Descendants of Abraham" but did not clarify what he meant by that.
In Biblical terms " "Descendants of Abraham" means only Israelites and in some contexts only Jews.
Physically however "Descendants of Abraham" may be understood to include all those descended from Abraham including the sons of Keturah, of Isaac (including Edom), and Ishmael.
The Bible however counts only through the Birthright.
The Birthright passed from Abraham to Isaac and from Isaac to Jacob (aka Israel).
The Promise to the Land went to Israel. The term "Israel" includes Judah and the LTTs (Lost Ten Tribes).
See: Geneaology of the Blessings.
The LTTs however have had their membership temporarily suspended.
For the moment,
The Jewish Religion has the right to decided who is a Jew and who is not.
Converts accepted by the Jewish Religious authorities also have equal rights in the Land.
The LTTs will return. The covenant will be renewed. This has not yet happened.
Even descendants of non-Jews who converted to Judaism in Biblical Terms are considered Jewish. This is what the Bible says!
DNA is useful to a degree BUT in many cases it may be wrong.
Concerning descendants of converts in the End Times the Bible commands:
Ezekiel (TCB) 47:
21 AND YOU SHALL DIVIDE THIS LAND AMONG YOURSELVES ACCORDING TO THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL.
22 AND THAT WILL BE WHAT YOU ALLOT AS A HERITAGE, FOR YOURSELVES AND FOR THE STRANGERS WHO DWELL IN YOUR MIDST, WHO WILL BEGET SONS IN YOUR MIDST, AND THEY WILL BE TO YOU AS CITIZENS AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL; WITH YOU THEY WILL INHERIT OF THE INHERITANCE IN THE MIDST OF THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL.
23 AND IT SHALL BE IN THE TRIBE WITH WHICH THE STRANGER SOJOURNS, THERE YOU SHALL GIVE HIS INHERITANCE, SAYS THE LORD GOD.
We are reserved concerning DNA. Nevertheless, according to DNA most Jews (especially the males) have a great degree of Jewish ancestry.
The Jewish religion recognizes them. That is all that is needed.
Regardless of DNA findings the BIBLE identifes the Jewsih People with Judah of the Bible, see:
Ambassador Huckabee says that he is acquainted with numerous Jewish Christians who made aliyah to Israel and as far as he knows they are accepted as Jews. This may be so. Legally however it may be, a priori, that only a Jew who has not changed his religion is accepted as Jewish.
There are also many non-Jews (from Russia etc) who in some cases have been accepted as Jews by the secular authorities in Israel. An agreement with the Russian Government may exist on this matter. Putin likes Jews. He considers all Russian-speaking Jews to be the same as Russians. Israel is a succesful country and the more 'Russian-speakers" among its population is considered a plus for Russia by Putin.
Being Jewish according to the Jewish Religion and not being so legally is not necessarily the same.
Jewish Religious Law however in these cases is what is decisive.
The State of Israel is in principle is a secular state but in many cases it tries not to contradict Jewish Hakachic Law.
Genesis 15 says that God gave all the Land from the Nile to the Euphrates to Israel.
Genesis (TCB) 15:
18 ON THAT DAY, THE LORD FORMED A COVENANT WITH ABRAM, SAYING,
"TO YOUR SEED I HAVE GIVEN THIS LAND, FROM THE RIVER OF EGYPT UNTIL THE GREAT RIVER, THE EUPHRATES RIVER.
That is what the Bible says.
Also the BIBLE identifies the present-day Jews as Judah of the Bible, see:
WHY THE JEWS ARE JUDAH
https://britam.org/judah.html
Points made by Brit-Am:
(5. Jews Persecuted by Gentiles
(6. Jews Keep the Law
(7. Jews Observe the Fasts
(8. Jewish State to be Named "Israel"
(9. Return of Judah Precedes Return of Other Tribes
(10. Jews identified with Judah
(11. Jews Must be Judah also proven from the lack of Contrary Verses
(12. Jewish Judah Loath to Recognize Joseph of Israel.
3. Bibi Netanyahu and T. Carlson.
Carlson also asked about Bibi Netanyahu? How do we know his ancestors were ever in the Holy Land?
Bibi Netanyahu had Religious Jews among his ancestors. So did his wife. His father may not have been observant BUT his father (the grandfather of Bibi) was a Rabbi AND his father himself was a Jewish Scholar of note and an expert on certain aspects of Jewish Law. PM Netanyahu surrounds himself with a staff of helpers, advisors, and asssitants who are nearly all Torah-Oberservant both Ultra-Orthodox and National Religious. His office is especially designed to be user-friendly towards them.
At all events Bibi is the chosen elected leader of the Israeli People.
DNA is not a decisive factor concerning who is Jewish. Our present day appreciation of DNA may well be seriously impaired and not take account of drastic changes in the past.
4. Conquering the Promised Land.
Carlson also queried as to the implications in practical terms concerning conquering the Land.
The State of Israel is not a religious state and it does what it sees valid.
Nevertheless, most of the countries and peoples all around are antagonistic to Israel.
They are primitive and bloodthirsty.
And they are dangerous.
Egypt for instance is very hostile and potentially treacherous.
If as a result of hostilities Israel was attacked and ended up conquering portions of Egypt that happened to be in the realm of the Promised Land -
That could become one factor enabling Israel to retain control over the area.
The same applies to Turkey and other regions.
5. Carlson as an "Agent of Qatar," and his Past Misdeeds and Crazy Allegations.
Prominent Israeli News Reporter, Ayelet Sasson, says that Carlson is an agent of Qatar. "AI Review" notes that while Carlson denies these reports "there is evidence of financial and professional links between Carlson and Qatari interests."
Carlson recently accused the emissaries of Chabad of plotting to rebuild the Third Temple. This in the eyes of Tucker is negative! The emissaries of Chabad are not people who go around plotting things but they would probably feel flattered by the allegation.
Tucker Carlson has been named in several lawsuits involving allegations of sexual harassment, pressuring women to be alone with him, and creating a hostile work environment during his tenure at Fox News. He was dismissed from Fox News because of this. Allegations of anti-Semitism, regular Anti-Jewish jokes, and creating an environment hostile to Jews have also been made.
Carlson (born 1969) may have some Scandinavian ancestry.
6. The Lost Ten Tribes (LTTs) and the USA.
The Lost Ten Tribes are descendants of Israelites who were exiled by Assyria. They moved to Western Europe. Their descendants are to be found among the peoples of Finland, Sweden, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, France, the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the USA. The USA is an Israelite nation. Even residents of America whose ancestors did not pertain to the nations listed above may still be descended from the LTTs.. An identifying characteristic of Hebrew Ancestry is a positive attitude towards the Jewish People. Anyone who is antagonistic towards the Jews is suspect of not belonging to Israel.
The task of the People of the USA in our time is to re-affirm their Israelite Ancestry. By helping the State of Israel and identifying with the Jews and Israel this is what they are doing!
7. The Temple and the Jews.
Extracts from and Article by
Rabbi Pesach Wolicki
"Yes, this is a holy war. Just not the way Tucker thinks."
https://israel365news.com/416636/yes-this-is-a-holy-war-just-not-the-way-tucker-thinks/?utm_source
Tucker Carlson has figured out who the real extremists are in the Middle East. They're the IDF soldiers wearing patches on their uniforms - patches depicting the Third Temple, the future temple that Jews have prayed toward and mourned across two thousand years of exile. Tucker spotted these patches, connected them to the broader war in Gaza, and concluded that Israeli soldiers are secretly fighting a religious war to bulldoze Islamic holy sites. The American taxpayer, he noted gravely, is footing the bill.
He's right that this is a religious war over Jerusalem and the Temple Mount. He's just got the sides confused.
The taxpayer line is worth clearing away first. American military aid to Israel amounts to approximately ten percent of Israel's defense budget, and that was before October 7th, after which Israel dramatically escalated its own military spending without a corresponding increase in American assistance. As a percentage of Israel's GDP, aid to Israel clocks in at well under one percent. Tucker repeats the 'we're paying for all of this' line with such regularity that it's worth pointing out: it's simply not accurate.
But the Temple - that's where Tucker's commentary gets interesting, and where the real argument begins.
For Jews, the Temple Mount is not a symbol or a political talking point. For Jews, it is the holiest place in the world, where Solomon built the First Temple nearly three thousand years ago, where the Second Temple stood until the Romans destroyed it in 70 CE, where the Holy of Holies once housed the Ark of the Covenant and the presence of God.
When the Romans burned the Temple and drove the Jews into exile, something happened that has no parallel in the history of nations or religions: the Jewish people spent the next two millennia mourning the loss, rebuilding their entire liturgical life around that mourning, and refusing to forget. Every synagogue in the world faces Jerusalem. Jews pray three times a day for the restoration of the Temple. At every Jewish wedding, a glass is broken as a reminder of its destruction. Every Passover, we say next year in Jerusalem, and we mean the Temple. This was not some medieval religious affectation. It was, and remains, the living expression of a continuous, unbroken chain of Jewish memory and longing stretching from antiquity to the present day.
So when Tucker Carlson spots IDF soldiers wearing a Temple patch and acts as though he's caught them in some extremist confession, what he's really revealing is that he knows nothing about the Jewish people. The Temple isn't a fringe idea among Jews. It is woven into the fabric of Jewish identity so completely that it would be strange if soldiers fighting to defend the Jewish people weren't thinking about it.
Hamas named the October 7th massacre 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.' ...They named the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, an attack that took place near Gaza, a full two hours' drive from Jerusalem, after the mosque built on the Temple Mount. The connection to Jerusalem wasn't incidental. Hamas itself declared, in its own words, that the attack was intended to rally the Muslim world around the claim that Jews were threatening the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The organization that massacred, raped, and kidnapped Israeli civilians on that October morning framed the entire war as a battle over the Temple Mount.
And if there is any doubt about the theological underpinnings of that framing, one only needs to open the Hamas charter. Among its founding documents is a quotation from the hadith - Islamic religious texts ... - in which the Prophet describes Judgment Day as the moment when Muslims will hunt down and kill every Jew, even those hiding behind rocks and trees. The Hadih describes the rocks and trees themselves calling out to identify the hiding Jews. This is not some marginal commentary. This call to genocide is enshrined in the founding document of an organization that Tucker has referred to as a political movement.
In other words: Hamas made this war about the Temple Mount. Israeli soldiers responded by putting the Temple on their uniforms.
