Timur Shah – Middle East Eye Aug 15, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he “very much” identifies with the vision of Greater Israel during an interview on Tuesday, as he accepted an amulet of the “promised land” from former right-wing MP Sharon Gal.
His comments have sparked condemnations from many Arab states, who viewed his words as a threat to their sovereign territory.
The concept of Greater Israel, which has various interpretations, has long been invoked by ultra-nationalist Israelis.
It is often understood as a vision of territorial expansion to encompass Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan, along with significant parts of Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
It has also sometimes been used more narrowly to refer to the territories occupied by Israel in 1967: the Palestinian territories, the Golan Heights in Syria, and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
While Netanyahu’s remarks are recent, the idea of Greater Israel is neither new nor clearly defined, and for some, it now appears increasingly relevant in light of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Where did it start?
The concept of Greater Israel was explored by Theodor Herzl, the father of political Zionism, who wrote in his diaries that the Jewish state should stretch “from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates”.
The phrase is taken from Book of Genesis, where God grants Abraham and his descendants a vast expanse of land stretching “from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates.”
Some Israelis refer to a narrower vision mentioned in the Book of Deuteronomy, where God instructs Moses to lead the Israelites in taking possession of Palestine, Lebanon, and parts of Egypt, Jordan and Syria.
Others invoke the Book of Samuel, which describes lands secured by Kings Saul and David, including Palestine, Lebanon, and sections of Jordan and Syria.
For those who hold this belief, the pursuit of Greater Israel is not merely political, it is the fulfilment of a divine mandate, a reclamation of land they see as rightfully theirs.
How has Greater Israel changed?
Following the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the country’s borders remained undefined.
In 1967, during the Six-Day War, Israel occupied the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, along with the Golan Heights in Syria and the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.
It was the first major military effort by Israel to expand its territorial control. Sinai was later returned to Egypt as part of a peace treaty, while the Golan Heights were formally annexed by Israel.
The war brought renewed attention to the idea of Greater Israel, particularly among religious Zionists.
By the late 20th century, the term had become political shorthand, embraced by some Israelis as the realisation of a historical and religious destiny.
The “Movement for Greater Israel”, a political party founded in the aftermath of the Six-Day War, was active until the late 1970s. It advocated for retaining the captured territories and settling them with Jewish citizens.
How does the current government view the vision?
Since the current Israeli government was sworn in in 2022, reference to Greater Israel became more common.
Last year, in a documentary, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich was filmed advocating for the expansion of Israeli borders to include Damascus.
He suggested that Israel would gradually grow to encompass not only all Palestinian territories but also parts of Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
“It is written that the future of Jerusalem is to expand to Damascus,” he said, invoking the “Greater Israel” ideology.
Smotrich had previously raised similar ideas during a 2023 memorial service for a Likud activist in Paris.
Speaking from a podium adorned with a map of Israel that included Jordan, he controversially stated that “there is no such thing” as the Palestinian people.
Other ministers and MPs have openly advocated for “taking land” from Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
During the ongoing genocide, an Israeli soldier was pictured with a patch of map of Greater Israel in on his uniform.
The latest incident came earlier this week, when Netanyahu explicitly reaffirmed his commitment to the vision.
His comments came amid ongoing Israeli military occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and parts of southern Lebanon and southern Syria.
All Jews should be driven out of these states and only allowed to take with them possessions they can carry. If they damage their property or any household goods, they should be punished as the Jews and Zionist Communists punished such offenders as they drove sixteen million ethic Germans from their homes after WWII. Chabad Jews and Talmud believers have sentenced themselves to be punished by their own beliefs regarding Jesus, Christians and Gentiles. The Jewish Holocaust narrative has killed tens of millions, and a billion innocent people have suffered. All those who have been involved in the false Jewish Holocaust propaganda will be severely punished. You have chosen your punishment by your behaviour and beliefs.
greater israel is amerika europa asia,africa, antarctica;
the whole world . insolent haughtiness knows no borders !
they can refer ad infinitum to Abraham (genesis), Moses (deuteronomy) and Samuel (prophet) but need to understand that these promises were negated when the israelis LOST that grant and favoured status after reneging on their covenant with God in sinai having turned to their evil ways of sacrifice. Hence Moses broke the tablets and refused to enter the ‘promised’ land
its the same jewish policy of population replacement here in the UK
Not only a plan, but an accomplishment, considering how the International Zionist has conquered England, countries in Europe, Australia, and for America, a most ruinous conquest, for not only haver American’s taxpayer’s money been taken to be given to Israel, but the utter take-over of foreign policy, the media, academia, and the MOA’s (memorandum of understanding) which are known and unknown. All showing the ruination of America for the Zionist International and why…
Israel is not an ally to America. It is the opposite.
The Holy Land?
Is that not the place where everything holy given to the people by God, they squandered and polluted with false gods and mammon.
Is that not the place where they killed Christ?
Is that not the place from which the the people first chosen to reveal the true nature of God betrayed him and were dispersed from the area and scattered all over the world?
Is that not the place from which the early Jews became so mixed with the rest of the world over the centuries that most of them now living in the place they call “Israel” have no real roots to any place in the entire Middle East at all?
Is that not the place of the Zionist Rothschild bogus land claims?
Is that not the place in which re the Muslims conquered the inhabitants by the sword and slaughtered all those who would not convert to Islam?
Is that not the place of vast oil and gas resources where out of greed there have been endless wars?
Is that not the place which modern Jews of the West want to own and control along with the entire Levant just like they want to own and control everything else in order in order to pretend they are some kind of superhuman beings or god-like creatures?
Is than not the place in which the Jewish money power of the West has made a deal with the Western, Saudi Arabian and other Middle Eastern and Egyptian powers controlled by their debt-rigging money powers, first to dispossess, kill and scatter the people of Palestine and then the peoples in their way in their planned lebensraum settlements into Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and all around the Suez Canal?
Is that not the so-called “holy” land? But how can it be when it is clear that for 2,000 years it has nothing really to do with God or holiness, and to the Jews, Americans, Brits and various corporate interests, that very idea of a “holy land” is only a pretext for the false entitlement of the Jews in their quest to increase their pottage of mammon for which they traded their true birthright when then rejected their own Messiah?
Is there anything really more “holy” and closer to God about the people who come from the Middle East these days, or go there, than anyone else in the world? No of course not. If you do not seek the true God you will never find Him or any real holiness in your life. We also know that holiness and God and his graces know no borders and that all “nations” to Him are “no more than a drop in the bucket”.
Christ, the Messiah, did come and because many Jews at his time who were not salves to mammon and who were prepared, such were able to recognize him and to carry his presence to the entire world at the time of the dispersion, and in a world in which they converted millions and millions and blended into the people they converted as they did so. To Christians “Israel” or ought to be “the Kingdom of God” living in the people on matter what place or nation on earth they are living in.
“Israel” in scripture has never really been a place, but always a people. As First Isiah said, “The ox knows its master and the ass its masters stall, but Israel my people has no knowledge, no discernment.” They were a stubborn, backsliding people but nurtured with enough graces and chastisements to enable them to reveal the true nature of God to the world, which the true and faithful people of God actually did and in the midst of great obstacles, persecutions, and in a culture with most of their own tribe bent on more temporal ends than eternal ones. The faithful in their Messianic mission became a part of that world in order to reconcile it to God. The place known as modern Israel is simply a pagan land and has nothing really to do with the true Israel and the real descendants of Christ. The entire Zionist movement is simply one more aspect of “anti-Christ” in our midst.
If Gaza is not a clear sign to people who call themselves “Christians” of the anti-Christ and the forces of evil working through the temporal powers which control that place called “Israel” and also through the temporal powers in control of our Western nations, then they are not really the people of God and in fact they are serving the anti-Christ and in effect serving the devil to expel the presence of Christ from the world.
Most anti Israel sites are run by Britain based crypto jews.
Starmer is a crypto jew.. …importing millions of Muslims is part of the strategy…..the jews want to create war within Britain.
See Marrano’s in Spain circa 1500.
Thus it makes sense if the importation of Afghanistan is etc.Most anti immigrant websites are run by the jews.
The only people who are trying to placate the kike “god” are the sunni arabs – they installed the jewlani regime in syria and normalize their relations with the Kikestan by abraham accords.
People live off land, so they need some, but Jews don’t, because they live off people, by way of swindles
Well written all of the above.
@FRED PERRINI
because they have the brain, money + entrepeneurship .
Fulfillment of a “divine mandate”, huh? The books of Genesis, Deuteronomy, and Samuel from the Ol’ Festerment Book O’ Bullshit that were scribbled by some drooling delirious kikes in the desert, a jew claiming that “God” told him that his tribe of miscreant parasites were the “chosen people” of the Almighty and had a “divine” right to take everything they see. Laughable insanity.
But the really insane part is that million upon millions of deranged imbeciles actually believe that festering bullshit. They believe the con that hogwash is holy water, that THE most vile, evil tribe of lying, thieving, psychotic scum ever squeezed out of Satan’s asshole are somehow looked upon favorably by the Creator when the whole notion should be laughed out of the room at best, if not the deranged believers of that long-game con put in mental institutions…while the promoters of it are executed for causing so much misery, mayhem, and murder.
“God said that we get…” Bwahahaha Go f*ck yourself, asshole.
The rantings of the self-proclaimed “chosen” – suckering countless weak-minded morons into the longest running con in the history of history – and the unconscionable behaviors and actions of the Jew over millennia have been THE most wickedly destabilizing events in the history of the whirled.
Greater Israel = Planet Earth
How long will it be before the kosher coin finally drops – in the numb skull of “demoncratized” man?????
There is a Satanist here that feels he can have a field day against bible and bible nuts, Christards, commie rabbi Jesus, etc.
Since the walking-backwards training burned into him a new way of thinking, he now can see clearly the (satanic) “truths” because now his mind is “superior”.
Now he diligently works in alliance with Jews, which he only pro-forma blasts against in order to confound us, to “eradicate from earth the very name of Jesus”.
He thinks all his dedication will endear him with his master Satan – imagine, a satanist seeking love!, and this from the Father of Lies! – sounds crazy to us but how could we understand a “superior mind”?
By his diligent working he will ascend to a higher grade and with time he will be deemed worthy of participating in the abuse and sacrifice of children which according to his great master Aleister Crowley must be white, beautiful, innocent, and without blemish – btw, same as the Jews.
Can we assume he be looking forward to glorious days ahead when he, Bwahahaha, can “enjoy” that filthy and twisted “sacrament”?
Sorry for being so “stupid” but I will never be able to understand such “superior minds”