The “Greater Israel” Project Is Now in Full Swing
There is a reason why Israel has no official borders.
Israel is currently at war with its neighbours. Israel is regularly bombing Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine.
Moreover, Israel is invading those neighbours, sending in occupying troops. The Jewish state is occupying land in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine, and has been for decades. Israel is even occupying part of Egypt, with whom it signed the famous Camp David Accords.
Why Israel has no borders
Not many people realise that Israel has no official borders. The State of Israel was self-proclaimed amid the ongoing Nakba, the forced expulsion of Palestinians, land theft and ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
According to Wikipedia: “Only two of Israel’s five total potential land borders are internationally recognised and uncontested, while the other three remain disputed”.
The majority of these border disputes date back to what the Mossad-curated Wikipedia calls “territorial changes that came about as a result of the 1967 Arab–Israeli War, which saw Israel occupy large swathes of territory from its rivals.”
What a cynical use of euphemism!
Israel’s two formally recognised and confirmed borders exist with Egypt and Jordan since the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty and the 1994 Israel–Jordan peace treaty.
All of Israel’s other borders remain contested. This is because, for the Zionists, the State of Israel is “a work in progress”. They have no interest in defining borders, because they are embarked on a holy crusade to “take back” all of the “Land of Israel”.
Zionist leaders such as Avraham Stern and Menachem Begin believed in the “historical” land of Eretz-Yisrael. This put them at odds with the more secular, statist Zionists who first founded the Jewish State. Encyclopedia.com sums it up so:
“After 1948, David Ben-Gurion insisted on the term State of Israel (Medinat Yisrael), because of his statist emphasis. By contrast, Menachem Begin frequently spoke of “Eretz Yisrael,” reflecting his allegiance to the historic Israel, the “Greater Israel.”
The pursuit to conquer “Greater Israel”
The “Land of Israel” that God bequeathed to Abraham in the Bible‘s Book of Genesis is described as follows:
On that day Hashem made a covenant with Avram, saying:
“To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates — 19 the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.” — Genesis 15:18–21
“I assign the land you sojourn in to you and your offspring to come, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting holding”. (Genesis 17:8)
Below is a map of the Land of Israel that God “promised” to the Jews according to the above mentioned Bible verses, which includes part or all of modern Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon:
This is the land that far right, militaristic Zionists like Begin and now Netanyahu believe in. In fact, the map of Eretz-Yisrael was used as the logo for the Irgun, a Zionist terror group that was led by Menachem Begin:
Again, encyclopedia.com explains:
“After the 1967 war, the Greater Land of Israel movement (Eretz Yisrael ha-Shelema) developed. Sparked by an enhanced attachment to the biblical Promised Land, its adherents — predominantly religious but comprising secular nationalists as well — opposed ceding sovereignty over the newly conquered territories and embarked on a settlement campaign.”
The never ending wars
The quest to re-establish “Greater Israel” never ceased: it is alive and well in modern Israel. In fact, with extremist settler politicians like Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich at the helm, the settler movement has become a central goal of the Israeli state.
Even the IDF soldiers supporting settlers in the West Bank, exterminating Palestinians in Gaza, and destroying non-Jewish Christian and Muslim communities in Lebanon know what they are fighting for:
This is why Israel has no official borders. The only way to accept “official”, internationally recognised borders would be to accept a two state solution such as was decreed by the United Nations.
In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a partition plan for Palestine, leading to the 1948 Palestine war. During the war, the British withdrew from Palestine, “chased” out by Zionist terror groups such as the Haganah, Irgun and Lehi/Stern Gang.
Zionist forces conquered territory and established the State of Israel, and over 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled in what has come to be known in Arab circles as the Nakba, or “catastrophe”.
As Wikipedia notes, this was “the first war of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the broader Arab–Israeli conflict.”
Israel has been at war ever since.
As a result of the 1948 war, Israel was established on the area the UN had proposed for the Jewish state, but the Zionists also took almost 60% of the area proposed for the Arab state. Israel also took control of West Jerusalem, which was meant to be part of an international zone.
Jordan initally took control of East Jerusalem and what became known as the West Bank. The territory which became the Gaza Strip was occupied by Egypt but never annexed. Since the 1967 Six-Day War, both the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza Strip have been militarily occupied by Israel, becoming known as the Palestinian territories.
Ben Gurion set the course in 1948
David Ben Gurion was a consummate Zionist. A European Ashkenazi Jew whose real name was David Grün, Ben Gurion is universally recognised as the Founder of the Jewish State of Israel, and indeed served as Israel’s first Prime Minister.
In May 1948, Ben-Gurion addressed his general staff as follows:
” … we should prepare to go over to the offensive with the aim of smashing Lebanon, Trans-jordan and Syria… The weak point in the Arab coalition is Lebanon [for] the Moslem regime is artificial and easy to undermine. A Christian state should be established… When we smash the [Arab] Legions strength and bomb Amman, we will eliminate Transjordan, too, and then Syria will fall. If Egypt still dares to fight on, we shall bomb Port Said, Alexandria, and Cairo.”
— From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.
As we can see today, Ben-Gurion’s words serve as a generational guide for the Zionist project. First, Israel fomented a civil war in Lebanon in the 1970’s and allied with the Lebanese Christians in an attempt to take over the Lebanese territory and create a Christian state.
Today, Israel is still seeking to destroy Lebanon, what Ben-Gurion called “The weak point in the Arab coalition”, in their latest attempt to “smash” the Arab coalition and seize more land from the surrounding territories.
In fact, Lebanon has already been targeted by Israel for settlement:
Viewed through the prism of Zionist expansionism and the quest for Greater Israel, the Six-Day War was just another step in the direction of re-establishing Zionist control over the entire “Land of Israel”.
The subsequent wars, such as the Yom Kippur War, the several Lebanon wars, the Syrian wars and the various Gaza wars, have all been initiated by Israel with the aim of conquering or re-conquering territory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Israel
The decades long campaign of Zionist conquest continues to this day.
Israel’s proxy wars
Let us not forget that, in addition to those wars where Israel participated directly, the Zionist state has launched several “proxy” wars through its vassal, the United States. Libya, Iraq and Syria were all attacked by the US with an aim of regime change that would create the chaos that Israel needed to seize control of more territory.
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While the US “dirty wars” in Syria failed to overthrow Israel’s enemy, Bashar Al-Assad, the operations in Libya and Iraq were great successes from Israel’s point of view.
According to Netanyahu’s 2011 speech to the UN, Muammar Gaddafi had been unleashing a “river of lethal weapons flowing into Gaza”. He wanted the Libyan nationalist leader gone, and so President Obama was happy to oblige.
Before Libya, Netanyahu was relentless in pushing for America’s war in Iraq. In 2002, he told the US Senate:
“I must state clearly that the need to topple Saddam is paramount. I think the commitment of America and Britain to dismantle this terrorist dictatorship before it obtains atomic bombs, before it develops nuclear weapons, deserves the unconditional support of all sane governments and all sane people around the world.”
Needless to say, Israel did nothing to contribute to the war effort in any of these proxy conflicts.
The impossible “two state solution”
When we consider that Israel has been actively fighting, going to war to increase its territory in a sacred quest to reconquer “Greater Israel”, it becomes clear why Israel will never accept a two state solution that includes internationally recognised borders and territory for both the Palestinian State and the State of Israel.
This is why Israeli leaders have constantly sought to delay and reject any negotiations with the Palestinians regarding a two state solution. Indeed, starting with Yasser Arafat, Israel has a policy of assassinating the chief negotiators for its enemies — most recently Ismail Haniyeh and Hassan Nasrallah.
Obviously, peace can never be negotiated if one side keeps assassinating the negotiators from the other side.
Israeli contempt for international laws and conventions
Since its founding in 1948, Israel has determinedly violated and ignored all manner of international law, humanitarian law, the Geneva Conventions and United Nations resolutions.
In fact, Israel has violated dozens of UN resolutions, and continues to violate more. Israel is conducting a genocide, and refuses to cease or to even relent in the slightest.
This is because Israel “answers to a higher authority”. Whereas all the other nations of the world must obey international law and respect the UN, Israel alone can ignore all the constraints that the world would put on them, because they are “God’s Chosen People”.
Precluding the possibility with settlements
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, a court which has binding jurisdiction over all UN members, ruled that the Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), specifically in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, are ILLEGAL.
Consequently, the UN General Assembly issued a resolution condemning the Israeli occupation and the settlements:
“With a recorded vote of 124 nations in favour, 14 against, and 43 abstentions, the resolution calls for Israel to comply with international law and withdraw its military forces, immediately cease all new settlement activity, evacuate all settlers from occupied land, and dismantle parts of the separation wall it constructed inside the occupied West Bank.”
Israel was swift to respond with its customary combination of hubris, disdain and contempt:
“The Jewish nation cannot be an occupier in its own land,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.
Moreover, Israel’s foreign ministry rejected the opinion as “fundamentally wrong” and one-sided, and repeated its stance that a political settlement in the region can only be reached by negotiations.
NEGOTIATIONS.
Given the recent campaign of Israeli assassinations of Palestinian negotiators, one is tempted to ask, “negotiations with whom”?
But then that is the point.
Israel have been accelerating the pace of settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and plans are already underway to “re-settle” Gaza — as well as to settle Lebanon.
Every expert agrees that given the current rate of settlement, and the sheer volume of land that has been illegally seized by Israeli settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, it is impossible to even contemplate creating a Palestinian state in the OPT.
And yet, international leaders like the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres continue to call for a “two state solution” — even though the UN itself has declared that settlements prevent a two state solution.
The futility of asking Israel for a cease-fire
Knowing that the Greater Israel Project is underway, we can now see the utter futility in trying to negotiate with Israel. Israel does not negotiate. They pretend to negotiate only in order to buy time or to support a hasbara campaign to propagandise the world into thinking that “Israel wants peace”.
This is, of course, all lies.
Israel was built using terror and war. They have universal conscription for a reason. The Zionist founders, such as Moshe Dayan, warned the Israelis that they would never be able to stop fighting:
“A generation of settlement are we, and without the steel helmet and the maw of the cannon we shall not plant a tree, nor build a house. Our children shall not have lives to live if we do not dig shelters; and without the barbed wire fence and the machine gun, we shall not pave a path nor drill for water.”
This is because, as Dayan explained, the Israeli mission was to dispossess the Arab population of all that they owned:
“Why should we complain of their hatred for us? Eight years have they sat in the refugee camps of Gaza, and seen, with their own eyes, how we have made a homeland of the soil and the villages where they and their forebears once dwelt.”
This is the sad and terrible truth at the heart of Zionism: Israelis recognise what they have done to the Palestinians and the Arabs in the region, who now live in “a surging sea of hatred and vengeance”. The Zionists understand and acknowledge that they have stolen the land, and even admit that the local populations have a right to hate them.
But that does not dissuade them from their quest. They will “carry a gun in one hand and a plough in the other” until they reconquer and resettle all of the Biblical “Land of Israel” promised by God to Abraham.
Only one way for this to end
As we teeter on the brink of yet another Israeli-provoked regional war in the Middle East, we should be honest with ourselves about what is really going on.
In the State of Israel we have an implacable, violent, expansionist settler coloniser of the most aggressive sort. Like a cancer destroys cells, Israel seeks to destroy the indigenous societies in the region and replace them with its own — as Moshe Dayan said, to “make a homeland of the soil and the villages where they and their forebears once dwelt”.
This is the sacred Zionist mission, ordained by God.
Israel will not stop. The peace-loving Labour Kibbutzniks of the early days of Israel are gone; their secular Ashkenazi dreams of European socialism have been crushed under the boot of the religious Zionists like Ben Gvir and Smotrich and their cohort in crime, a bloodthirsty megalomaniac in the person of Benjamin Netanyahu.
We should also remember, however. that despite the early flirtation with peace and socialism, the impossibility of the Zionist state can be traced back directly to its founding, to David Ben-Gurion himself, who once said:
“If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti — Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault ? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”
— Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in The Jewish Paradox (Le Paraddoxe Juif), p121.
What makes Ben Gurion’s statement so odious is that it is a well documented fact that Ben Gurion was himself a secular atheist and did not believe in God. He did not want to have a Jewish state bound by religion but rather a secular state bound by a common language.
In short, he wanted Hebrew, not Judaism, to be the foundation of Israeli society.
And yet, in his quest to justify Zionist expansion and settler colonialism, Ben-Gurion was happy to rely on the Biblical prophecy, the ancient texts, and the “pact” between God and the Jews that gave “God’s Chosen People” the right to seize all the lands that made up “Greater Israel”.
Ben-Gurion showed us the truth
The fact that Ben-Gurion, a self-described “irreligious person” and an avowed atheist, could nonetheless promulgate the relentless capture of territory and the “smashing” of the Arab societies in the region shows us the truth behind the Zionist cause.
In short, this has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with colonisation, expansion, and GENOCIDE. For although Ben-Gurion did not believe the Jews were chosen by God, he did believe that the Jews were inherently superior and deserved to take all the land around them, “eliminating” (in his words) the local populations along the way.
Israel must go
In Israel, we are faced with an implacable aggressor who is bound on conquest, war and genocidal campaigns of extermination and ethnic cleansing; an aggressor who is unwilling and indeed incapable of negotiating peace.
We therefore have two possible solutions to contemplate:
We allow Israel to continue its blood-soaked “reconquista” until it occupies all of what it believes to be the God-given territory of “Eretz-Yisrael”, or
We must do away with Zionist Israel, as we did away with Apartheid South Africa.
If someone can think of a third possibility, please leave a comment.
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Just a note for anyone wandering by who DOES believe "God" promised Abraham Eretz Israel. Archeology has now proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that there was no Abraham, and indeed there was not even an Israelite until well into the Iron Age. The "Israelites" were a disparate group of people (not a tribe or ethnicity) who fled to the Canaanite hill country upon the Bronze Age collapse of the Egyptian empire. Over time they developed a group identity and began, like all people, to invent their legendary past. None of this was written down until many hundreds of years after these "events' supposedly took place; in fact, these stories were probably first written down during the Babylonian Captivity between 598 and 538 BC. Some scholars have hypothesized that this legendary bloody past of the Israelites may have been prompted by their shame at having been repeatedly seized by large empires (which they would be several more times.) But in any case, we know conclusively there was no Abraham, because Jews are of Canaanite ancestry, not Mesopotamian; there was no Exodus, because 100 years of trying have turned up no evidence whatsoever of any group of people wandering through the Sinai, and there was no "conquest," because the cities the Israelites supposedly conquered either didn't exist or were just a few poor shanties when they were supposedly "conquered." Archaeology has also shown that Hebrew monotheism was a fairly late development: the early and mid Israelites worshipped all the usual Canaanite pantheon. David and Solomon were not great kings and had no great kingdoms--they were minor warlords at best. Jerusalem under David probably had no more than 5000 people. And there was no "united kingdom" of Judah/Israel. First there was the northern kingdom of Israel, and then when that was conquered by the Assyrian empire, many Israelites fled south to Judah, which then was independent for a short time before it too was conquered. At no time did the Israelites control or rule all of Palestine (and they were by no means the only native Canaanite group) except for 17 years under the Greek/Hasmonean tyrant Alexander Jannaeus, and about 95% of their existence was spent as vassals of the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks and Romans. So this entire Zionist narrative of "Eretz Israel" is not only completely hypocritical because Zionism is a colonial, secular movement, but it was a fairy tale to start with.
Thank you for this exhaustive description of the greater Israel project and its course.