Some Israelis still interpret “Greater Israel” to include the Golan Heights and Sinai Peninsula, or even as a promise of dominion over entire area from the Nile River (in modern Egypt) to the Euphrates River (which flows through today’s Turkey, Syria, and Iraq) Vey recently the US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee sent shock waves throughout the civilized world when he said that Israel has biblical right to all the land between Egypt and Iraq when reminded that the verse includes land far beyond Ghaza and the West Bank his response was that it would be fine if they took it all which implies that sovereignty is derived from a divine promise.

It simply means that when territorial claims are framed as biblical entitlement they are not bound by moral obligations or even international law they are no longer constrained by the June 4, 1967 lines, by UN resolutions or by negotiated settlement. A divine mandate does not recognize compromise, nor partition. It only recognizes the fact that the goal is to be achieved at any cost. This irrational and illegal outburst by the US ambassador was immediately condemned by Pakistan and 13 other countries and it was called a highly dangerous and inflammatory statement on the other hand the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu announced he was feeling “very attached” to the vision of “greater Israel” and he called this a historic and spiritual mission.Zionists wanted to create........

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