India, June 19 -- In a fiery and contentious interview, Tucker Carlson appeared visibly baffled as Senator Ted Cruz invoked scripture to justify his support for Israel's bombing of Iran. The face-to-face exchange, aired Wednesday on Carlson's alternative media platform, spotlighted a deepening divide within the MAGA movement over potential US involvement in the escalating Israel-Iran conflict.

In the almost 2-hour-long interview dropped on Wednesday, Cruz said, "Growing up in Sunday school, I was taught from the Bible, those who bless Israel will be blessed and those who curse Israel will cursed. And from my perspective, I wanna be on the blessing side of things." Baffled by the Senator's reasoning, Carlson asked him where in the Bible t...