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The U.S. ambassador doesn't represent Israel; he barely represents its crazies. But it's definitely possible that he represents an America in the making

– "Genesis 15 says it's Abram – it's pre-Abraham, it's Abram – receives from God the news that his descendants will inherit the land. And you tell me, as the theologian, if I'm getting this wrong, but from the Euphrates to the Nile, I think. And that would include basically the entire Middle East. That would be the Levant. So that would be Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon. It would also be big parts of Saudi Arabia and Iraq. ... I mean, not sure it would go that far. ... It would be a lot of places that are now countries."