Borders of Ambition: The Fierce Dream and Global Uproar Over Greater Israel
Saudi Arabia, Palestine And Arab League Condemn The Controversial Map: The Concept Of ‘Greater Israel’ Is Just ‘Dream Of Extremists’ Or No Concrete Plan
Saudi Arabia, Palestine, the United Arab Emirates and the Arab League have strongly condemned the Israeli government’s release of ‘Greater Israel’ controversial map.
The map, released from Israel’s state social media account on January 6, describes parts of Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan as part of Israel.
Saudi Arabia has termed it an extremist move, saying such actions show the ambitions of strengthening Israeli occupation, continuing open attacks on states’ sovereignty and violating international law.
Palestinian and Jordanian officials have also condemned the controversial map.
The Saudi Foreign Ministry and Palestinian officials have appealed to the international community to stop Israeli violations, and Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Abu al -Gheit has warned that the international community’s failure to tackle such provocative measures is at risk of increasing extremism from all sides.
What has Israel claimed?
It was claimed with a map shared with Israel’s state social media account that the state of Israel was established almost 3000 years ago, and its first three kings included Shah Shaul, Shah Dawood and Shah Suleiman, who ruled for 120 years. During his time, Jewish culture, religion and economy grew.
The post claimed that after the death of King Suleiman in 931 BC, the state was divided into two parts due to internal conflicts and heavy taxes: Israel in the north and Israel in the south. The northern state of Israel ended 209 years later by the Assyrians (722 BC) and the South Juda 345 years after the King of Babylon (568 BC).
“This division led to political conflicts for centuries, but during the exile, the Jewish nation wanted to restore its state, which was established in 1948 as the state of Israel, which is the only democratic state in the Middle East today.”
Although the concept of Greater Israel is not a new idea, we will have to go back several hundred years to find out where this concept came from and what areas are included in the ‘The Promisedland’.
But let’s tell you here that many Jews in Israel also know the region as ‘Ersz Israel’ or ‘Land of Israel’, and it is a larger geographical territory than Israel’s current borders.
The concept of ‘Greater Israel’, spread from the Nile to the canal
“There will come a day when our borders will extend from Lebanon to the Great Desert of Saudi Arabia, from the Mediterranean to the canal (Iraq).”
In January 2024, the interview of Israeli author Avi Lapkin was very viral, in which he spoke on the concept of Greater Israel, ‘On the other side of the Euphrates, our friends. We have the Mediterranean and in front of us … Lebanon needs the protection of Israel and I am sure we will occupy Mecca and Medina and Tumina and purify these places. ‘
Since Israel’s ongoing operations in Lebanon after Gaza, social media has once again heard the concept of ‘Greater Israel’.
One of the reasons for this was done in some social media posts during the ground operation in Gaza, claiming that some Israeli soldiers were wearing a map of Greater Israel on their uniforms, while the far -right Israeli ministers have been mentioned in the past.
It raised concerns by consumers from Arab countries because the map of the ‘Promsedland’ (the land promised) also included parts of Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Egypt.
Israeli operations in neighboring countries have increased since Hamas’s invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023. Over the past few months, the Israeli defense forces have also carried out targeted attacks in Iran, Syria and Lebanon, and Israeli operations are becoming more and more foolish after the failure of ceasefire efforts by the United Nations and the United States, including the United States.
According to Theodore Herzal, the founder of Zionism, the map of the ‘Promsedland’ or the Greater Israel, from Egypt to the Nile to Iraq, includes areas from the Nile to the canal in Iraq, namely Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Turkey and Saudi Arabia will also be part of Greater Israel.
In 1947, the United Nations approved the division of Palestine into two separate Jewish and Arab states, and Jerusalem was declared an international city.
Subsequently, Israeli politician and former Prime Minister Manchim Begen said, “The division of Palestine is illegal. Jerusalem was our capital and will always be, and the borders of Israel will be restored forever. ‘
Adren Einstein, author of the ‘Zyonism 2.0: Themes and Proposals of Rishping World Ciuleization’ writes in the newspaper Times of Israel that Greater Israel means different for different groups.
He writes that the term Greater Israel for Jews in Israel and outside the country means to establish Israel’s sovereignty to the West Bank (the Jordan River). This includes the Juda, Samara, and possibly the areas that were occupied after the 1948 war. In addition, it includes Sinai, northern Israel and the Golan hills.
In this regard, a close eye on the Middle East situation and Washington -based policy analyst Taqiya Nusrat says that “the concept of Greater Israel has settled in Israeli society and many elements of Israeli society, from the government to the military, have its pioneers.”
Talking to the BBC, Taqiya Nusrat says Israelis believe that Israel deserves lands in the Bible and history, which extend not only from the river to the sea, but also ‘from the river to the river’. That is, from the Euphrates River to the Nile River and all areas between them.
She says, “Although the real idea behind the concept of Greater Israel may be the same, a more realistic thinking in today’s Israel is that it also includes areas outside the Israeli borders that it has long occupied, namely the West Bank, Gaza and Golan.”
Why is Greater Israel again debate, is Israel working on the ‘Greater Israel’ plan?
Taqi Nisrat refers to the map of the ‘Greater Israel’ presented by right -wing Israeli minister Bezelil Smithrich in 2023, which included Jordan and causing diplomatic disputes.
It is to be remembered that the Israeli minister presented a map of Greater Israel during a speech in Paris, showing Jordan and the occupied West Bank as part of Israel. Jordan strongly protested Bezelil, accusing the two countries of violating a peace deal.
Taqiya Nusrat says, “The fact is that the Summit or Ben -Gauer, the circles he represents, considers the same concept as the legitimate future of Israel.”
She says that she has used the same concept and has turned it into a reality by armed, supporting and protecting illegal Israeli settlers in the current government of Netanyahu.
Taqi says that these illegal Israeli settlers are forcing Palestinian olive gardens, displaced them from their homes and threaten them to flee to their safety and set up new settlements in the West Bank.
Taqi Nisar believes that these elements (illegal armed Israeli settlers) have gained significant influence and power following the October 7 attacks on Israel, and they are working on this agenda to protect the Israeli army (IDF) and Netanyahu ministers.
She says that they are often called ‘non -state elements’ but call them anything, the fact is that they have directly supported Prime Minister Netanyahu, who approved the establishment of 5300 new settlements in July this year.
However, Omar Karim believes that “extremists in any nation dream like that of the right -wing Zionist people in Israel.”
He says that after the establishment of the Israeli state, the Jews have re -founded the concept of a religious state because the Jews were either in the minority or citizens of those countries where they were first settled.
He says that for the first time, like Pakistan, he has found the concept of a religious state in the case of Israel, where your religion is the basis of your nationality and ‘This is what the debate has arisen that since we have now established our religious state, we will now take it to the traditional boundaries.’
Omar says that few people in today’s Israeli ‘who are in the extreme minority’ do such things, but they believe that in practice it is not possible that Israel has diplomatic relations with neighboring countries like Jordan, which means it recognizes the boundaries of these countries.
He says Israeli diplomatic relations with the Arab Emirates and the Gulf are also established and they do not have bad relations with Saudi Arabia. And with Syria on the third side of the country, Israel has only the Golan Heights dispute and there is no problem between the two countries.
Omar Karim says that politically and practically the establishment of Greater Israel is merely imagined, and serious politicians and analysts in Israel never seem to talk about it, but this fantasy is certainly in the classes that are in some way imagine Jews all over the world.
What will be the reaction of the West if Israel wants to put into practice the Greater Israeli plan?
What will the West react if Israel wants to put into practice the Greater Israeli plan? In this regard, Taqiya Nusrat says that so far, the West, especially the United States, has reacted to a weak reaction to the change of ground facts and the expansion of Israeli settlements.
She says that earlier this year, when Israel approved some violent settlers to set up settlements, the Biden administration condemned them in a very deal. ‘
Taqiya Nusrais believes that there was no serious reaction from Israeli supporters in the West to these actions, so they believe that ‘in a way, Western countries have found a green light to fulfill Israel’s dream of’ Greater Israel ‘and an influential Israeli dream.
However, Omar Karim says the establishment of Greater Israel will not be acceptable to Jews living in the West nor the West.
He says that when the state was established for the Jews in 1947, it was believed that they had been exploited all over the world, so they should find a separate country where they could survive such exploitation, and all the Western countries and the United States were called the United States and the United States.
He says that Greater Israel’s talk on the one hand, in addition to the occupied territories, Golan Heights, where Israel has been in control of 1967, is also considered as all Western countries and international organizations.
Omar Karim believes that Greater Israel has neither legal status nor Israel has enough military capability to put such a project in the future but suppose that if Israel is to make such an effort, it cannot be possible without the political and military permission and help of the West. ‘
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