Muslim Nations Jointly Condemn U.S. Ambassador’s ‘Greater Israel’ Remarks

RIYADH/ISLAMABAD — Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan, along with several other Muslim-majority nations, have collectively rejected statements made by U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, in which he suggested Israel has the right to control territories stretching from the Nile River to the Euphrates — a vision aligned with the far-right concept of “Greater Israel.”
In a rare joint communiqué, the foreign ministers of the Muslim nations, alongside the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the Arab League, and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), condemned Huckabee’s remarks as “irresponsible and a blatant violation of international law.”
The statement warned that such inflammatory rhetoric poses a direct threat to regional peace and stability, and paradoxically contradicts President Donald Trump’s own stated framework for resolving the Gaza conflict and achieving broader Middle East stability.
The signatories reaffirmed their unified position that Israel holds no legal sovereignty over occupied Palestinian and Arab territories under any framework of international law.
Huckabee had stated that it would be acceptable if Israel were to take control of lands stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates — a reference to the extremist “Greater Israel” ideology that envisions Israeli dominion over a vast swath of the Middle East, encompassing parts of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and the Arabian Peninsula.
Analysts note that the unified response from nations as geopolitically diverse as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signals the depth of alarm the remarks have triggered across the Muslim world. Diplomatic observers are now closely watching whether Washington will issue any clarification or distancing from the ambassador’s comments.