Much has been written and discussed about the recent debate between Tucker Carlson and Ambassador Mike Huckabee. This writer wants to “put in my two cents” as well.

I used to listen to Carlson on Fox News quite a bit and really admired his style and expertise. He was convincing and eloquent. I was sorry to see him leave Fox.

Something apparently happened to him suddenly and now he is still eloquent but his style has allowed him to distort the truth and even fabricate it. There is strong suspicion that an outside force is behind this change.

Although most of his points can be disputed, I wish to discuss two in particular. His claim of genocide and ancestry.

When he joins the crowd of uninformed and biased entities in this world that claim that Israel committed genocide in Gaza he fails to acknowledge some basic facts. In his discussion with the Ambassador he implied that he is a staunch and loyal citizen of the United States and therefore was reprimanding Israel for committing genocide to the Gazan people during the last war with American aid. He seemed to resent that aid because that meant that he, as a citizen of the U.S., was supporting, by his tax dollars, this genocide.

The Ambassador illustrated to Carlson how wrong he was and that no genocide* occurred and that Israel was the only country in the world that warns its enemies of a strike before it does so and, additionally, that the amount of deaths that were reported were dubious at best since the numbers were derived from the Hamas “health ministry”. The ambassador further reminded Carlson that many of the deaths of civilians were the exclusive responsibility of Hamas since they used all kinds of civilian locations for their operations. Carlson was also informed that his criticism of the death of a particular Gazan child was proven to be a blatant lie when the “dead” child appeared quite alive a week later.

My point is that if Carlson is such a concerned and loyal U.S. taxpayer why doesn’t he acknowledge that the U.S. committed genocide in World War II when it bombed and obliterated many European cities and also Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those bombings were WITHOUT warnings and killed millions of innocent men, women and children. In addition, does Carslon acknowledge that the U.S. also murdered, at least, thousands of native Americans in order to confiscate their land that he, so comfortably, now lives on?

The second point that begs a comment is that Carlson disputed the fact that Israel was the ancestral land of Bibi Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders since they came from European and other locations around the world. The Ambassador rightly pointed out the Biblical connection which Carlson seemed to refute. What should have been pointed out was that, as God gave this land to the Jews at the time of Abraham that was the beginning of the right of Jews to the land of Israel. In subsequent generations the Jews were exiled to different parts of the world and many eventually ended up in Israel. That doesn’t mean that they had lost the rights to the land. It was still their ancestral property.

Hopefully, someone somewhere will be able to “straighten out” Carlson and that he will return to his original self.

* Genocide is usually defined as the “deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political or cultural group”. Is that what Israel was doing in Gaza after the “holocaust” of October 7th?

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