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	F L A M E : Greater Israel: Does it have any relation to reality?
		Israel's current borders are the result of the 1948 War of Independence, in which six armies invaded the new-born state, but were utterly defeated, and the 1967 Six-Day War, in which those same armies once again invaded Israel.
		Israel is so small that its area is less than half the size of San Bernardino County, California; if it were dropped into Lake Michigan it would disappear from sight without a trace.
		It is clear that the concept of "Greater Israel," created as a propaganda ploy by the Arabs and thoughtlessly (one hopes) repeated by so many in many governments and in the world press, lacks any validity and has no basis in fact.
	www.factsandlogic.org /ad_42.html (696 words)

	Greater Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to some right-wing Israeli views, the term refers to a state of Israel (Hebrew: Medinat Yisra'el) established on the whole geographical region of Palestine (known in Hebrew as Eretz Yisra'el, distinct from the political entity Medinat Yisra'el), situated between the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, annexing both the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
		According to some anti-Zionist and Islamist rhetoric, Greater Israel refers to an extremist Zionist conspiracy to stretch the borders of the state of Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates.
		The idea that "Greater Israel" includes parts of Egypt is based on the term "River of Egypt" (נהר מצרים nehar mitsrayim) used to determine the south-west border of "The Promised Land".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greater_Israel (536 words)

	Why Greater Israel vision has perished \| Comment \| The Observer
		But in a visit to Israel over the past week (as part of a delegation of the Board of Deputies of British Jews) I have come to realise that the Biblical dream of a recreation of ancient Israel is dying on the vine.
		In a stunning repudiation of the Greater Israel vision, Olmert suggested that it was time for Israel to withdraw from most of the territories and salvage Israel as a predominantly Jewish democracy in the Middle East.
		Israel is seen as not having helped itself or the diaspora with its inadequate public responses to the past three and a half years of terrorism and brutal retaliation.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,6903,1120533,00.html (1781 words)

	A ‘Greater Israel’ In The Making: Experts
		KUALA LUMPUR, April 16 (IslamOnline.net) - A greater Israel is in the making with the fall of the Saddam regime in Baghdad and with the taming of Syria, Iran and other Arab nations in the Middle Eastern region, said political analysts in the South East Asian region on Wednesday, April 16.
		Israel is already considered the mini-super power of the region with its arsenal of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, said other experts in Asia.
		He believes the ‘greater Israel’ will see the day since the U.S. is now being lobbied by pro-Jewish influence in Washington that has led to the Iraq war and is now turning towards Syria and other Muslim nations in the Middle East.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article2987.htm (844 words)

	The Concept of "Greater Israel" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Israel covets the rich oil fields of the Middle East, especially those of Iraq.
		According to the Israel Firsters, in and out of the U.S. government, Iraq poses a monumental threat to the security of the United States, and its leader Saddam Hussein must be removed at all costs.
		Chairman, of the DPB is Richard Perle, a longtime Israel Firster and one of the leading advocates for a U.S. invasion of Iraq.
	litek.ws /k0nsl/detox/ConceptOfGreaterIsrael.html (616 words)

	Middle East Report Online: The Militarist and Messianic Ideologies, by Neve Gordon
		The settlers' bloc aspired to build on the lands Israel had occupied to fulfill a religious duty, while Sharon thought that settlement in and control over the Occupied Territories was the way to secure the state of Israel.
		But Sharon's notion of a Greater Israel is founded on militarism, as opposed to the messianic beliefs espoused by Haetzni and Gush Emunim.
		Although their aim was to pressure Israel to reach peace with Egypt and its other Arab neighbors, including the Palestinians, these doves also derived inspiration from tenets underlying the Jewish state that are non-universalistic.
	www.merip.org /mero/mero070804.html (3125 words)

	Redemption: the Zionist aim of Greater Israel
		When people in the UK talk blandly of "reconciliation" between Palestinians and Israelis, it is either an indication of indifference or a tacit admission of ignorance about Israel's territorial and demographic intentions - intentions conceived in the closing stages of the 19th century and given life in 1947 when the state of Israel was born.
		What Israel failed to foresee in its redemption planning was the resilience of Palestinian resolve, the strong sense of nationhood and the robustness of Palestinian society.
		Israel possesses one of the most powerful military machines in the world, while the Palestinians have only light arms, stones and home-made bombs.
	www.redress.btinternet.co.uk /npretzlik.htm (1010 words)

	Zionism and the Occupation - Israel and the Palestinians - Issues and Answers
		Zionism and the occupation - Israel and the Palestinians
		It is complicated by the beliefs of some Israelis in "Greater Israel," which was not a part of mainstream historical Zionist ideology and does not have consensus support of all Zionists.
		Israel is withdrawing from the heavily populated Gaza strip, taking the calculated risk that this area may become a base for intense terrorist activity against Israel, under the control of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad extremists.
	www.zionism-israel.com /occupation_zionism.htm (1539 words)

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		Impressive as this sounds, it may not be significant: Kuiper notes that there were greater differences between unaltered tomatoes grown in different conditions than there were between GM and normal tomatoes grown in identical conditions.
		This showed Israel's intention to use its nuclear arsenal as a deterrent political lever, or retaliatory capability against the Soviet Union itself.
		If Israel does not have enough soldiers to defend itself they may resort to arms of mass destruction, such as chemical and nuclear.
	lycos.cs.cmu.edu /info/nuclear--greater-israel.html (487 words)

	Imperial Israel: The Nile-to-Euphrates Calumny - Middle East Quarterly
		This notion of a Greater Israel, quite distinct from the one understood by Zionists, eventually became so routinized and accepted, it by now serves as the conventional wisdom in all the Arabic-speaking countries and Iran.
		According to Hafiz al-Asad, Dayan announced that "the past generation established Israel within its 1948 borders; we have established Israel within the 1967 borders; and you have to establish a Greater Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates."[13] An Iraqi writer recounts the speech somewhat differently: "We have taken Jerusalem.
		Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates."[39] In fact, the reverse approaches the truth: fear of Greater Israel is common coin on the Arab street.
	www.meforum.org /article/215 (5340 words)

	Israel Plans Blitzkreig to Capture Arab Oil Fields. Operation Shekhinah Part Two
		In order to get a true feel for the importance of oil to Israel, it is necessary to take a stroll back through history, to a time when the sky was continually lit by the flashes of heavy artillery shells and exploding bombs, as nations around the globe struggled with World War Two.
		In common with all 20th Century engagements, the battle for Greater Israel would require vast quantities of oil to drive the machines of war: Oil which the British and Iraqis had already piped into the port city of Haifa to serve the British naval and military bases in the Eastern Mediterranean.
		Robbed of what they believed to be their historical birthright, by a lack of oil to drive their war machine on to a Greater Israel, they were now forced to watch impotently as that very oil flowed by, tantalizingly close to their border on the Golan Heights.
	geocities.com /operationshekhinah2/two.html (1860 words)

	Eretz Israel HaShlema / Greater Israel / "from the Nile to the
		Eretz Israel HaShlema / Greater Israel / "from the Nile to the
		This conception of a Greater Israel encompassing much of the Middle East is evidently a pervasive element of popular culture in the region, and it is easy to understand how this would be taken up by bin Laden and other propgandists.
		Rather the term Eretz Israel HaShlema is used in practice to apply to to some approximation of the territory of the land occupied by the original twelve tribes, or to the two Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, or some fragment of the kingdome of the Macabees.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/israel/greater-israel.htm (3556 words)

	Sharon Stirs Up Conflict In Pursuit Of Greater Israel Policy By Jean Shaoul
		Israel has in effect served notice that it intends to exploit the excuse used by the US and Britain to launch their criminal war against Iraq to justify whatever military attacks it sees fit.
		Israel also accused Syria of supplying Hezbollah militants in south Lebanon with thousands of surface-to-air missiles capable of striking northern Israeli towns and cities and demanded that Syria rein in the Islamic fundamentalist group.
		Israel claimed that the houses were used to fire on security forces or concealed tunnel entrances.
	www.countercurrents.org /pa-shaoul151003.htm (1634 words)

	Catholic Insight : Israel : Bush endorses Greater Israel
		Israel is to keep its settlements on the West Bank and the Golan Heights, ending any thought of a viable autonomous Palestinian state.
		The roles of Israel and the United States in this sordid affair are typical of what is sometimes referred to by its German designation — “reàlpolitik,” a ruthless and often brutal pragmatism without ethical considerations for the other man. The relevant phrase in the declaration is: “In light of new realities on the ground”
		The American seal of approval confirms 40 years of diplomatic scheming on the part of Israel, aided by its influential Jewish lobby in the American Congress, and the general approval of American Evangelical Christians who believe that the Jews have a God-given right to Judea and Samaria, i.e., the West Bank.
	catholicinsight.com /online/political/israel/bushgi.shtml (650 words)

	Greater Israel \| Z (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Israel, we are repeatedly informed, is a modern, forward-looking democracy under constant attack from backward, fanatical neighbours hell-bent on its destruction.
		Despite's Israel's blatant aggression against Lebanon and their denial of rights to the Palestinians, it is the governments of Iran and, to a lesser extent, Syria who are denounced as the instigators of the latest Middle East conflict.
		Israel made mistakes, there are extremist Jews (even Jewish terrorists), but there is no way you can convince me that the arabs are not the aggressors, and always have been, from the Hebron Massacre of 1929 to date.
	blog.zmag.org /node/2710 (2706 words)

	Israel greater nuclear threat than Iran: Israeli whistleblower Vanunu
		Israel is a greater nuclear threat than Iran, Mordechai Vanunu, who was freed in April after 18 years in an Israeli prison for revealing the country's nuclear program, told Swedish Radio on Thursday.
		Israel, which now views Iran as its number one enemy after the downfall of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, has been lobbying hard for greater pressure to be exerted on Tehran.
		Vanunu meanwhile called in the interview on Israel to dismantle its nuclear program -- a program the Jewish state has never acknowledged -- pointing out that "Israel is the one who became aggressive and who took Arab lands".
	www.infowars.com /oct04/isran.htm (313 words)

	Religious Zionism Revisits Israel - Zionism and Israel
		Their political base was strengthened by alliance with the Likud, which had the political clout to implement the ambitions of the Greater Israel movement.
		According to the teachings of the most influential Religious Zionist theologian, the late Rabbi A.Y. Kook (1865-1935), the restoration of the State of Israel was to be an integral part of the Messianic era, as was the resettlement of the Land of Israel.
		Greater participation in Israeli power centers would require broader religious representation in the media, the national security bureaucracy, the High Court, the academia, the economy, as well as the creative arts.
	www.zionism-israel.com /ezine/religious_zionism.htm (3064 words)

	Israel in Cyberspace
		The most effective propaganda in the battle of the Government and Greater Israel groups against the peace process is documentation of Palestinian extremist statements and acts, taken from PNA controlled media.
		It is a Torah commandment for all generations to conquer the Land of Israel, to settle it and to preserve it.
		The highlight is a fantasy by founder Nadia Matar about Israel in the year 2048, relating that after the Israeli peace movement advised the PNA to use terror to advance his cause, the Israeli government arrested and executed Yasser Arafat and jailed Shimon Peres for life.
	www.ariga.com /peacewatch/iscyber.htm (2945 words)

	Greater Israel: A dream closer to fulfillment
		We fail to see that the US and Israel are well on their course to materialize the Zionist dream of Greater Israel and fulfill God's promise to Abraham in the Bible: "To your descendants I give this land from the River of Egypt to the Great River, the river Euphrates."
		The US and Israel, self-deluded into the most-superior-states syndrome, are set to surpass all previous records of bloodletting in human history.
		Even if it moves beyond a decade for some unpredictable reasons, Greater Israel is an inevitable fate the world has to face due to its inability to cope with the aforementioned three root causes.
	www.ilaam.net /Intl/GreaterIsrael.html (1684 words)

	Greater Syria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Greater Syria, also known (in a historic context) as Syria, or Bilad ash-Sham (Arabic: بلاد الشام) is an irredentist term that denotes a historic region in the Middle East bordering the Mediterranean.
		It is generally considered to comprise roughly the modern states of Syria, Lebanon, and Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Kuwait, portions of Iraq, the settled areas of Jordan, the Sinai and Hatay Province in Turkey.
		In the Syrian nationalist ideology developed by the founder of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, Antun Saada (March 1, 1904-July 8, 1949), Greater Syria is seen as the geographic environment in which the Syrian nation state evolved.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greater_Syria (225 words)

	Sharon, Bush and the race for ‘Greater Israel’ - Israeli Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sharon’s main objective is the building of a “Greater Israel” on the ruins of Palestinian nationalism.
		His latest instrument is the wall or separation barrier which is imprisoning the Palestinians on a fraction of their territory, cutting them off on all sides from contact with their Arab neighbors.
		The attack on the Palestinian camp near Damascus, together with Israel’s repeated incursions at Rafah, are clearly intended as warnings to Syria and Egypt to halt all support for the Palestinians or face the consequences.
	www.palestinemonitor.org /israelipoli/greater_israel.htm (1059 words)

	Israel's Water War
		Nor is the modern conflict still tied to the transplanting of a European (Jewish) population to the middle east in the late 40’s, an idea perhaps initially viewed by the locals as a “new crusade”.
		Israel claims a desire to have the Lebanese “national army” or some other force replace Hezbollah on it’s northern border.
		I think Israel’s principle war aim is to drive out the civilian population of southern Lebanon both by directly terrorizing the local population and by making habitation unsustainable.
	alexander.gnn.tv /blogs/16970/Israel_s_Water_War (2228 words)

	FRONTLINE/WORLD Fellows. Israel - Tracing Borders . Intro page \| PBS
		When Israel declared statehood in 1948, it didn't declare borders -- but in 1949, it agreed with each of its neighbors on ceasefire lines that also defined the West Bank and Gaza.
		In June 2002, Israel began constructing a massive new barrier to separate itself from the Palestinians, a vast formation of walls and fences intended to eventually surround the entire West Bank and enclose Jerusalem.
		Israel will not withdraw its forces from the Palestinian side, and that access is built in, with roads designated for Israeli military vehicles on both sides.
	www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/fellows/israel/intro.html (894 words)

	Gambling For Greater Israel By Jonathan Freedland
		Ariel Sharon has spent the best part of four decades gambling for the prize that is Greater Israel: a Jewish state in roomier, more spacious borders than those that confined it until 1967.
		Taken together, these amount to the most conducive circumstances advocates of Greater Israel are ever likely to enjoy.
		They are being strikingly obtuse, denouncing him for abandoning the Greater Israel project when he is, in fact, about to entrench an albeit modified version of it, forever.
	www.countercurrents.org /pa-freedland250804.htm (1175 words)

	xymphora: The Haifa-Kirkuk Pipeline
		As I have already written, it appears likely that Chalabi's fall from grace is because he reneged on his agreement with the neocons to give favorable treatment to Israel in its raping of the resources of Iraq.
		Israel wants to build a pipeline that it knows will be attacked as it is being built.
		The attempt at creating Greater Israel based on the pipeline will be based on exactly the same strategy of troops, settlers, roads, and American aid, spiced with allegations of 'terrorism' threatening Israel's very existence.
	xymphora.blogspot.com /2004/09/haifa-kirkuk-pipeline.html (569 words)

	israelinsider: Views: Israel marches to "Left, Right, Left"
		Right wing nationalists are under the illusion that the party's opponents of the referendum also support the Greater Israel vision in which all of the land over the pre-1967 borders is as much a part of Israel as Haifa, Tel Aviv and downtown Jerusalem.
		The middle-of-the-road have been burned by worthless peace agreements and messianic speeches for the redemption of Greater Israel, from the Jordan to the Mediterranean.
		Israel's star journalist Nahum Barnea wrote that there is going to be an uprising of the people against Sharon and for evacuating the Gaza Strip as soon as possible.
	web.israelinsider.com /Views/3667.htm (1007 words)

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