Author Elle Purnell profileAll politics is theology, as Federalist CEO Sean Davis likes to say, and nowhere was that clearer than in a recent discussion between Tucker Carlson and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, about the United States’ relationship to Israel’s recent offensive against Iran.

In the interview, which aired Wednesday, Cruz invoked the biblical statement that “those who bless Israel will be blessed, and those who curse Israel will be cursed.” The verse, which comes directly from Numbers 24:9, is a reference to God’s promise to Abraham in Genesis 12:3: “I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”  …

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