Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has unleashed fresh controversy and anger among Arab countries and leaders by suggesting a huge land expanse of Israel's borders in an interview he gave to i24 News.
In the newly published interview he said he is on a "historic and spiritual mission" and expressed strong attachment to the vision of a Greater Israel, which is a longtime reference to Israel encompasing parts of Jordan, Egypt and Syria - along with the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
It comes on the heels of some hardline Israeli officials and settler groups loudly proclaiming that soon Israeli forces will be in Damascus. This is all based on Biblical concepts of what God is said to have promised the Jews thousands of years ago.
The interviewer had presented Netanyahu with an amulet featuring what he described as a "map of the Promised Land" - with the image symbolically depicting the greatly expanded vision of Israel's future.
Netanyahu when asked if he feels a connection with this concept of a Greater Israel, responded "Very much". The interviewer himself is known to back radical settler ideologies which seek to take land by force from neighboring Arab communities.
Among the first regional governments to condemn the remarks has been Jordan.
Jordan’s Foreign Ministry highlighed the 'Greater Israel' remarks, commenting that it constitutes "a dangerous and provocative escalation, a threat to the sovereignty of states, and a violation of international law and the United Nations Charter."
The ministry further emphasized "the need for the international community to act immediately to stop all provocative Israeli actions and statements that threaten the region’s stability and international peace and security." Some war monitors fear that the Netanyahu government is in effect already trying to enact this - given that from the start of post-Assad Syria (last December), Israel's military quickly expanded the Golan occupation far beyond, into southern Syria.
This is to the point where currently there are reports saying IDF ground forces are a mere dozen kilometers from the outskirts of the capital Damascus.
Bye Bye AlaskaFuelman » 14 Aug 2025, 7:24 am » wrote: ↑ Something to ponder:
There are Native American groups that are in full support of Israel.
Let that sink in for a bit.
They have similar lived experiences.JohnnyYou » 14 Aug 2025, 11:27 am » wrote: ↑ Bye Bye Alaska
Native Americans were brainwashed by White Christian Nationalists a long time ago.
Let it sink in there are thousands of Graves of children dead at the hands of evil Evangelicals
The groups that settled Alaska were the ancestors of those who ended up in the lower 48.Johnny » wrote:Bye Bye AlaskaFuelman » 14 Aug 2025, 7:24 am » wrote: ↑ Something to ponder:
There are Native American groups that are in full support of Israel.
Let that sink in for a bit.
Native Americans were brainwashed by White Christian Nationalists a long time ago.
Let it sink in there are thousands of Graves of children dead at the hands of evil Evangelicals
I tried. But I have zero regard for native american groups.Fuelman » 14 Aug 2025, 7:24 am » wrote: ↑ Something to ponder:
There are Native American groups that are in full support of Israel.
Let that sink in for a bit.

No.
Yeah.. If Bebe had been a Christian he would have killed them just like Gazans..
He's quoting the KowTow Tribe and the Gimmeback Tribe.JohnnyYou » 14 Aug 2025, 4:32 pm » wrote: ↑ Yeah.. If Bebe had been a Christian he would have killed them just like Gazans..
Except more cruelly with starvation instead of some quick unimaginable horror.
The Gubomint has Native Americans so jacked up they can't think straight. Yes the chiefs know they suffer at Oppression of a Mega Force..
I get ya on the similar experiences. I believe only the Mayans ever got Mathenmatics from ET.. North American ones lived in a permanent Woodstock?
It seems there ability to compute social equations may be impaired to me. Whatever tribe you are getting media story from is probably on the wrong side.
I don't. The only ones who have been put on reservations, manipulated and lied to, and murdered by settlers, are the palestinians.
The only ones who have been put on reservations, manipulated and lied to, and murdered by settlers, are the palestinians.
Oppression is as Oppression Does..Cannonpointer » 14 Aug 2025, 5:15 pm » wrote: ↑ I don't. The only ones who have been put on reservations, manipulated and lied to, and murdered by settlers, are the palestinians.
Comparing the israelis to the natives is pure assery. I mean full-on, between-the-cheeks, up-in-the-brown assery.
What makes you think they're native?Cannonpointer » 14 Aug 2025, 3:54 pm » wrote: ↑ I tried. But I have zero regard for native american groups.
We took their ****, and they drank about it. Now I'm supposed to value their opinions?
Let that sink in for a bit.
He called them natives. Ax him.roadkill » 14 Aug 2025, 7:31 pm » wrote: ↑ What makes you think they're native?
Way back in my college days on Native American Studies information was presented that said there was a dig showing other possible people who were here before those we call native American.
I think it was somewhere near the west coast...maybe Oregon...I don't remember. But a local tribe didn't like what the dig was suggesting so they shut it down cause it was on their reservation. Maybe they learned politics early on too.
Cannonpointer » 14 Aug 2025, 5:16 pm » wrote: ↑ The only ones who have been put on reservations, manipulated and lied to, and murdered by settlers, are the palestinians.
Comparing the israelis to the natives is pure assery. I mean full-on, between-the-cheeks, up-in-the-brown assery.
It's Herman Two Feather - no s.Fuelman » 15 Aug 2025, 12:23 pm » wrote: ↑I come across all kinds of information and thought you would enjoy this specific topic. Believe it or not, it's a thing. One Google click away and you can read what Herman2feathers has to say on the matter.
It’s not religion…it’s the genes.JohnnyYou » 14 Aug 2025, 2:55 am » wrote: ↑ We gotta get out of this place, if it's the last thing we ever do
Stuck in the Middle with You in the Judeo Islamic Chrisitian Triangle.
Am I allowed to be upset about anyone's ambitious colonial imperialistic goals?
Ban Religion.. It is the Root of All Evil.
This is the only spaceship we have right now. Too many cocks in the cockpit. America has been kicked out of the pilots seat.