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Netanyahu...and Greater Israel

Friday, August 22


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• Netanyahu revealed Israel's ugly face and sparked widespread controversy after his hints at a Greater Israel project. He brought to mind what we used to say during the era of Abdel Nasser and Sadat about Israel's desire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates.

• According to strategic studies experts, the concept of Greater Israel that Netanyahu wants to revive is based on a biblical text that refers to the Promised Land in the Jewish religion. It is from the Book of Genesis, Chapter 15: “On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram (meaning Abraham), saying: To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt (the Nile River) to the great river (meaning) the Euphrates River.” What is strange is that this promise was not given to Ishmael, the eldest son of Abraham, but to Isaac, considering his sons God’s chosen people.

• This myth is repeated by Zionist extremists, but this is the first time the head of the Israeli state has publicly declared it. In doing so, he is impersonating the global spiritual imam of the children of Israel, who will rule most of the Arab countries and revive the glories of the children of Zion. • Such ideas emerged after the June 5 setback, when Israel felt proud and arrogant, but the October victory restored it to its former size once again. It desired peace and the exchange of land for peace, but the Arabs missed this precious opportunity called for by President Sadat, which could have guaranteed the liberation of the Golan Heights and the establishment of a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders.

• The groups of Peres, Rabin, Yossi Beilin, and others were inclined to make peace with the Arabs. As President Mubarak recounted in a famous speech, Rabin told him that he wanted to make peace with Syria during the era of Hafez al-Assad and withdraw his forces from the Golan Heights in exchange for an exchange of ambassadors. Mubarak spoke to al-Assad, and the latter agreed. Secret negotiations began between them, but it seems that a third party in Israel did not want to make peace and planted agents who killed Rabin, wasting the opportunity for peace with Syria and liberating the Golan Heights forever. • Netanyahu and his team, Smotrich, Ben-Gvir and others like them, are following in the footsteps of Hitler and Mussolini, considering the sons of Zion as the sons of God and God's chosen people who have the right to seize the land, money, countries and blood of others. This team will lead to the destruction of Israel.

• These ideas may exist in the subconscious minds of some of Israel's political and military leaders, but no one has revealed their innermost thoughts except Netanyahu, who convinced Trump of his ideas and wants to lead the entire Arab region to occupy their land and control them economically and politically. The Arabs will never accept that. • The Grand Mufti of the Republic did well when he said that Greater Israel is a baseless lie and an old myth that is being revived.

• Al-Azhar, under the leadership of its great Sheikh, Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, issued a statement condemning in the strongest terms the provocative and unacceptable statements, stressing that they reflect a deep-rooted occupation mentality and expose extremist ambitions and intentions that seek to seize the wealth of the countries of the region and swallow up what remains of the Palestinian lands. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry also issued a strongly worded statement against this project. • All of Egypt has risen up, rejecting Netanyahu's calls, who found a golden opportunity in the era of Trump, who is close to this ideology.

• Netanyahu's ideas mean destroying all Arab-Israeli peace treaties, and mean that the Arab region will not enjoy peace and security as long as the likes of Netanyahu remain in power.

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