How Netanyahu risks making ‘Greater Israel’ the new Iran: ‘a rogue, destabilising state’
The Israeli PM’s expansionist rhetoric has shaken the Arab world, with a former top UAE adviser calling him ‘no less dangerous than Hitler’
The idea of a Greater Israel has circulated for decades on the Israeli far-right. Its imagined boundaries are debated, but all versions involve annexing the Palestinian territories and seizing some land from neighbouring states: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. More extreme interpretations extend the map even further, encompassing parts of Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
In an interview broadcast last Tuesday, Netanyahu declared he was on a “historic and spiritual mission” and felt “very much” connected to this expansionist vision of Israel.
He also accepted a symbolic amulet from interviewer Sharon Gal, a former right‑wing member of the Israeli Knesset, reportedly engraved with one of the more expansive maps of Greater Israel.
