'Make a choice': Huckabee warns Gulf to choose between Iran and Israel

'Make a choice': Huckabee warns Gulf to choose between Iran and Israel Submitted by MEE staff on Tue, 05/12/2026 - 20:18 The US ambassador to Israel made the remarks as he touted the Abraham Accords at an event in Tel Aviv Left to right: US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee stands alongside Israeli ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter, US Vice President JD Vance, US President Donald Trump, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Lebanese ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh Moawad, and US ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa in the White House's Oval Office in Washington, DC, on 23 April 2026 (Kylie Cooper/Reuters) Off US  ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has warned Arab Gulf states that they must "make a choice" between Israel and Iran amid the current standoff, after 40 days of a US-Israeli war on Iran that saw it target and destroy US-aligned assets in the region in retaliation. "The Gulf states now understood they will have to make a choice. Is it more likely they will be attacked by Iran or Israel?" Huckabee said in a conversation with Israeli television presenter Hila Korach on Tuesday.  "They see that Israel helped us and Iran attacked us. Israel is not trying to take over your land and is not sending missiles to you," he added. Huckabee, a Baptist minister and avowed Zionist, said he is confident that more Arab states will now join US President Donald Trump's Abraham Accords and normalise their relations with Israel. This is despite widespread public outrage across the Arab world at Israel's genocide in Gaza, and a fast-growing dissatisfaction with the closeness of the US-Israeli relationship among the American public .  As part of that conversation in...

Original source: Middle East Eye