Re: [Salon] Why questions are being raised over the 'Greater Israel' ideology

[Todd Pierce <todd.e.pierce@icloud.com>]

This was shared here last night. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKM8T_BGa5g&t=23s&ab_channel=AlJazeeraEnglish

Why questions are being raised over the 'Greater Israel' ideology

For good reason; because that's the Plan, as articulated by New Right/National Conservative Yoram Hazony, as the latest Zionist Supremacist to work for that goal (see below). 

First see this:  

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/greater-israel-from-the-euphrates-to-the-nile/ (Part 1)

Quote: "Many of us understand Greater Israel to mean exactly what is described in the Bible, which is to say, from the “Euphrates to the Nile,” or at the very least the reconstructed outlines and demarcations of the historical polities of King David, or King Solomon, or King Herod—all greatly exceeding the existing State of Israel in size and area. 

. . . 

Remarkably, it was not the Jews who mooted and fretted and contended with the political, strategic, military, economic and political implications of a Greater Israel. This was to be the fevered conspiratorially-minded obsession for generations of Arab politicians and leaders, and for countless Arab writers, academics, journalists, intellectuals, and Imams. And it is to this very day a preoccupation to a considerable extent. Israel and particularly the political concept of a Greater Israel, that is from the “River to the River,” is an ongoing and chronic obsession of the Arab world.  

B.S. See Hazony, and Herzl, in the video above. 

Here is where Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Charles Koch, et al., come in: 

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/greater-israel-from-the-euphrates-to-the-nile-part-3/ 

"Zionism 2.0 is about establishing the foundation for a new emerging civilization centered and based in Israel, propelled by Israel’s culture, language and gifted people. This civilizational transformation will require a revolution in the use of materials, tools, energy, agriculture, money, transportation, education, and our overall relationship to nature and the larger world and solar system around us. I see this emerging civilization giving rise to a new social, cultural, literary and religious efflorescence which will enrich the whole world. 

"Zionism 2.0 seeks to alter and transform the existing material and economic basis of the world, and through these efforts give rise to a new global structure or civilization if you may. How will this new civilization be developed? It will be done by developing one of the most ambitious technological and scientifically driven research and development programs in human history. It will be done perforce by the seeding, launching, and promoting of millions of high-technology startups and firms around the world. It will be accomplished by developing new atomic and molecular materials, new manufacturing technologies based on three dimensional and volumetric fabrication, and new decentralized financial modalities and monetary regimes that will allow one’s work and savings to be safeguarded and held proof to all forms of subversion and governmental expropriation and depreciation.

Here is how Yoram Hazony defines the borders for the coming Greater Israel: 

http://yoramhazony.org/images/stories/Yoram-articles/does_the_bible_have_a_political_teaching.pdf

Hazony Quote: "If we are to state this simply, the Law of the King was set against the life of the imperial state. Instead, it proposes what we might today call a limited state:66 one headed by a king whose life is not consumed in the unending quest for ever greater power.

"In a similar vein, the narrative insists that the state be limited territorially as well. The the books of Moses and Joshua include clear boundaries for the land, instructing the Israelites that they are to:

"Come to the mountain of the Emorites, and to all the places near it, in the plain, in the hills, and in the lowland, and in the Negev, and by the seaside, the land of the Canaanites and the Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Perat.67 (Perat=Euphrates)

"Perhaps in comparison to the borders of the present Jewish state, the borders stipulated by Moses and Joshua seem generous. But if we compare Israel’s ambitions to those of Egypt and Mesopotamia, we see that the biblical narrative is laying down as law the idea that Israel is to be limited in terms of the territories it may seek.68"

I'm not a Biblical scholar nor a geographer, but taking Hazony's description of Israel's borders that he lays out from the Bible, they're from the "Euphrates to the Nile," including Lebanon, if this map of Canaan is correct (correct me if I'm wrong), and the US NatCons are doing their best with Hazony and his fellow Israeli ethno-Nationalist fascists to achieve that. Trump/Vance will set about accomplishing that as soon as they take office, and escalating their incitement of Israel to "Finish the Job." Why else would Miriam Adelson be so supportive. When it happens, Israel's fascists will owe a hat tip to so many NatCons/Traditional Cons, and Koch libertarians here on this email list for making it possible, whether through their active advocacy, or silent neutrality with the NatCons.