Did @Netanyahu get ambushed with a "Greater Israel" question? ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Thursday, August 14, 2025

Did @Netanyahu get ambushed with a "Greater Israel" question?

Several Arab countries expressed dismay on Wednesday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a day earlier that he felt a connection to the vision of the “Promised Land” and “Greater Israel.”

In an interview with i24News aired on Tuesday evening, Netanyahu was asked by network anchor Sharon Gal if he “feels a connection” to a “vision” of the biblical Promised Land, as depicted in an amulet that Gal had just given him. Netanyahu responded: “Very much.”

Gal stressed to him, “It is Greater Israel.” Netanyahu responded, “If you ask me, we are here,” paused, and then turned the subject to the role of his father’s generation in establishing Israel and his own generation’s responsibility to ensure Israel’s survival.

Gal sells the pendants so we can see what he gave Netanyahu. Here it is:

This is a map showing a version of Greater Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates.

But the pendant can easily be viewed this way:

Which, if only glanced at for a second, could easily be mistaken for a map of Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights.

The words "Greater Israel" has two meanings - one roughly the area of British Mandate Palestine and the other the Biblical promise extending from the Nile to the Euphrates. It seems entirely possible that Sharon Gal, who uses the latter definition, trapped Bibi by using the same phrase that could mean two things while handing him in real time a pendant that could be mistaken for the smaller one.

This is a difference between 28,000 and 1.5 million square kilometers.

There is no way Netanyahu supports an Israel that extends over that vast amount of territory, not to mention the 250 million Arabs who live in that area. But some extreme right-wing Israelis do want that, and the Arab world is convinced that this is what all Israelis want - and now they have "proof."

I think Bibi got ambushed to say what Gal wanted him to say, without clarifying what definition of "Greater Israel" was being discussed.

And the media is eating this up.