The Toxic Vows of Empire: Mike Huckabee’s Marital Metaphor for the US-Israel “Partnership”

In a recent interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored aired on September 25, 2025, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee invoked a strikingly intimate analogy to defend the unbreakable bond between America and Israel.

“The one partner we have, which is Israel, is a relationship like no other,” Huckabee declared, likening the alliance to a sacred marriage. He elaborated that if someone at a dinner party dared to criticize his wife, he’d swiftly eject the offender from the table.

“You insult our partner, you’re insulting us!” he thundered, framing any critique of Israel as a personal affront to the United States itself.

This wasn’t mere rhetoric; Huckabee, a longtime evangelical advocate for Israel and former Arkansas governor, was doubling down on a worldview he’s championed for decades—one that casts the US-Israel tie as divinely ordained and beyond reproach.

Huckabee’s appearance on Morgan’s show, which has become a battleground for heated debates on the Gaza conflict, came amid escalating US involvement in Israel’s ongoing military campaign in the territory. Just weeks earlier, at the 50 States, One Israel conference, Huckabee reiterated this marital fidelity to a room of over 200 US lawmakers, denying accusations of genocide in Gaza and insisting that Israel’s actions are purely defensive.