Greater Israel, the Far Right Zionist Dream

Have no doubt, Israeli Zionists want Empire, a Jewish empire with full rights and privileges, opportunity, and a future for only the Jews. Accuse me of antisemitism all you will but the evidence is online for the entire world to see.

Lately lot has been made about the Palestinian phrase, “From the river to the sea” but there has existed since the earliest days of Judaism, the Biblical promise that Israel will someday control all the land from the Euphrates River in central Iraq to the Nile River in central Egypt as shown on the map below. This is the Zionist dream of Greater Israel, and for some it spells out their long term goals.

Genesis 15: 18–21 as taken from ESV.org.

“18. On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give 1 this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, 19. the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20. the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21. the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”

The exact river referred to in Egypt may not be the Nile and is likely a lesser known river or stream somewhere to the east of the Nile, but the river Euphrates is a sure bet for the northeastern border,

In 1918 the Word Zionist Organization suggested the borders in green shown below.

According to PalestineRemembered.com,

“The Jewish Agency at the Evian Conference in 1938 demanded that the borders of the future “Jewish state” to include Jordan as well, and when Winston Churchill removed the East Bank of the River of Jordan from the promised Balfour Declaration, Zionists registered their strongest objections.”

Interestingly, the green areas shown to be in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan are where the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) are fighting today. The intentions of the Zionist were as follows,

“It must be clear that there is no room in the country for both peoples….If the Arabs leave it, the country will become wide and spacious for us…. The only solution is a Land of Israel…without Arabs. There is no room here for compromises…There is no way but to transfer the Arabs from here to the neighboring countries, and to transfer all of them, save perhaps [a few]”. Source: Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestine Refugee Problem, 1947–1949 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 27; As cited in Finkelstein, Image, p. 86.”

Could Zionist intentions not be any clearer? Zionist want a pure Jewish Israel.

“Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment…Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.” Theodore Herzl, Complete Diaries, June 12, 1885 entry

Sound familiar? Instead of allowing Arabs to work Israel imports low wage workers from Thailand, China, India, and elsewhere, but those imported workers will never be allowed citizenship . So what are Zionist intentions today? From Settlement and Sovereignty by the Religious Zionist Party,

“The Torah establishes that the Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people — this is our belief, and this is what we aspire toward. For this reason, extending sovereignty to all regions of the Land of Israel is our top priority.

With that, like the redemption process in its entirety, extending sovereignty is a long and drawn-out process that slowly gains steam as it progresses.

In recent years, the Israeli government has agreed to suspend the process of implementing sovereignty. There was always one reason or another. At times it was motivated by political concerns, at times an impending election, at times legal challenges.

We will work to advance Israeli sovereignty immediately! At the very least, we will work to implement sovereignty in areas where there is national consensus: the entire Jordan valley, and/or Israeli settlement blocs. Implementing sovereignty establishes that these regions are an inseparable part of the State of Israel and ensures equal rights for Israelis who live in Judea, Samaria, and the Jordan Valley.

At the same time, in areas that are not under Israeli sovereignty, it is imperative to respond to the institutionalized and well-funded Palestinian land grab of unsettled territory, a move that seeks to de facto create a Palestinian state by establishing facts on the ground in accordance with the Fayyad plan that literally gains ground every single day.

When MK Bezalel Smotrich, head of the Religious Zionist Party, served on Israel’s security cabinet, he was the first one to advocate for the cabinet’s decision to preserve ‘Area C’, a preliminary move that must spur future government decisions and form the foundation of government protocol.”

For now at least. As you read above the Religious Zionist Party has intentions to claim land beyond the sovereign lands of Israel. There are also several among the Knesset (parliament) who have expressed desires to bring about Greater Israel as shown on the map above. From JagranJosh.com,

“ Many historians and International Relations watchers state that this is the reason Israel is slowly and strategically grabbing more and more land from its neighbours, specially Palestine.

While many other Zionists also say that Greater Israel included the land from the Nile in the West to the Euphrates in the East, comprising Palestine, Lebanon, Western Syria and Southern Turkey.

However, it is also important to keep in mind that the design of Greater Israel may not strictly be a Zionist Project for the Middle East. Many experts and academics have stated recently that it is an integral part of US foreign policy aiming to extend US hegemony to the middle east as well as fracturing and balkanising the Middle East.

Such a policy being pursued by the US in the region goes along with the Yinon Plan. This plan is an Israeli strategy to ensure regional superiority. It is a continuation of an earlier ploy that Britain used in the Middle East.”

And from The Nation,A

“The drive to establish the “Greater Land of Israel” is the central ideological goal of the Likud Party, which has dominated Israeli politics since 1977. The commitment to Greater Israel was enshrined in the “Basic Laws” of the Israeli state in 2018 when the Knesset passed the “Nation State of the Jewish People” law. This law states that the right to national self-determination in Palestine “is unique to the Jewish People” and that “the State views the development of Jewish settlement as a national value, and shall act to encourage and promote its establishment and strengthening.” This commitment is one of the “guiding principles” of the current Israeli government, which stated that “the Jewish people have an exclusive and inalienable right to all parts of the Land of Israel,” including “Judea and Samaria.”

And from The Times of Israel,

“The larger question being essayed in this entry is how do we define the quest for Greater Israel within the framework, plans, and ambitions of Zionism 2.0 and the industrial, technological and social-intellectual agenda that is being advanced as an integral part of this program? Is thinking in territorial terms about a Greater Israel that stretches from the Euphrates to the Nile River, or some other comparable geographical configuration, a meaningful line of political and strategic thought? Does Israel require a larger geographical footprint for its security and foreseeable economic and demographic growth? Is territorial expansion a viable option in the post-WW2 security and political framework? Do modern states want land and the inconvenient often indigent ‘native’ people that inhabit this land? Is a larger national landmass meaningful when one has the limitless frontiers of outer space beckoning and now within technological reach? And what about the unparalleled opportunities afforded by ‘colonizing’ the uncrowded and vast realms of the micro and nano scale. World-making and imperial empire building has to no small extent become a ‘computational’ science.”

Have no doubt, Israeli Zionists want Empire, a Jewish empire with full rights and privileges, opportunity, and a future for only the Jews. Accuse me of antisemitism all you will but the evidence is online for the entire world to see. And the United States of America under Genocide Joe will continue to do their bidding just to appease the Little Bully America so wants to like it. Just 1 month ago Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood before the United Nations and declared,

“Israel must have security control over all the territory west of the Jordan,”

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich displayed a map of Greater Israel that included the whole of Jordan at his recent speech in Paris that was attended by senior officials from the U.S., Jordan, Egypt, Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Want more proof? Haaretz explains how Israeli expansionism continues for everyone to see, I kid you not.

“The head of the Israel Defense Forces Central Command signed an order on Tuesday that will allow an unauthorized outpost in the West Bank to become a large urban settlement.”

While even Zionists don’t agree on the proposed borders of Greater Israel, have no doubt, like all West Bank “settlements” this will force more Arabs from the lands they have lived on for thousands of years, with any who dare to resist being killed or imprisoned. One little town at a time the Zionists intend to build an empire based on mythological accounts from ancient novels bound together and declared holy by the very people who seek to build an apartheid empire. Israeli police withhold accounts of Jewish terrorism against Palestinians from the public while hiding the truth about the level of destruction the Israeli people will themselves, suffer.

“Devastating attacks on civilian infrastructure, regional spillover, lack of U.S. backing for war — this is the grim reality if a second front opens with Hezbollah.”

So what if a Million Jews have to die, the rich profit from the weapons sales and the Zionists get the empire they’ve always dreamed of. The Jews are tough, they’ll recover and the conquest will be deemed justified in the vague language of the newest holy book just as religious writers have always done. Remember, Rome began as a single city.

The problem with expansionism is there is never enough to satisfy a craving for more of something the expansionist don’t already appreciate. You cannot satisfy expansionism by giving the expansionist more of what they don’t already appreciate. While Revisionist Zionism is currently defined as “a form of Zionism characterized by territorial maximalism. Revisionist Zionism promoted expansionism and the establishment of a Jewish majority on both sides of the Jordan River.” like all empire it only ends when the empire exceeds its ability to control what it has. Such has been the case with every empire ever created. Babylonia began as a single tract of land which included the then relatively small city of Babylon.

Managing empire is expensive. It requires constant expansion to enrichen a loyal base and prevent overthrow from within. This is achieved through constant, never ending war. Sure, there may be pauses, cease fires, and even interludes, but as soon as the resources begin to lessen and the working classes start feeling the pinch of inflation, the call to expand the empire by again striking at the poorest of neighbors begins with those in charge labeling the weak as unacceptable, criminal threats against a way of life built on the backs and labor of the poor while being branded as lazy, subhuman, and threatening. The Ottoman Empire began a single beylik, or principality.

Jews like to say that Judaism is a religion of peace but just like Christians the men they call heros are warriors who fought not for peace but for expansionism. The Crusades started with one sermon by Pope Urban II at Clermont-Ferrand in November 1095.

“Absolution from sin and eternal glory were promised to the Crusaders, who also hoped to gain land and wealth in the East.”

Does that sound familiar? It will if you have been paying attention.

“In a November 19 op-ed, the Israeli Minister of Intelligence, Gila Gamliel, openly advocated for Palestinian resettlement outside Gaza specifically in the context of this opportune moment, writing, ”Albert Einstein was quoted as saying: ‘In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.”

By the way, Albert Einstein, himself a Jew who was once offered the Presidency of Israel, had a low opinion of Zionism.

“In a Dec. 4, 1948, letter to The New York Times, Einstein, along with 28 other prominent members of the Jewish community, wrote that the then-current Israeli political party, the Freedom Party, led by Menachem Begin, was “a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties.”

“It is inconceivable that those who oppose fascism throughout the world, if correctly informed as to Mr. Begin’s political record and perspectives, could add their names and support to the movement he represents,” the letter continued.

Referring to the massacre of Arabs by Jews in the village of Deir Yassin, the letter said “the [Jewish] terrorists, far from being ashamed of their act, were proud of this massacre, publicized it widely. … The Deir Yassin incident exemplifies the character and actions of the Freedom Party.”

Albert believed the Zionists were,

“an admixture of ultranationalism, religious mysticism, and racial superiority” and that it bore the “unmistakable stamp of a Fascist party for whom terrorism (against Jews, Arabs, and British alike), and misrepresentation are means, and a ‘Leader State’ is the goal.”

I certainly couldn’t have said it better. Einstein believed Zionists to be,

“misled and criminal people.”

His words, not mine.