'“Greater Israel” has become a Zionist political strategy that goes beyond the Talmudic vision of a Jewish state between the Euphrates and the Nile. To realise it, Israel is pursuing not just the occupation of more land, but also military dominance over large swaths of the Middle East, as well as ever-expanding spheres of influence. Iran has stood in the way of all of these goals.
The “Greater Israel” project is not merely about territorial expansion; it is also about establishing regional control to secure the freedom to conduct military operations with minimal constraint. This mirrors what Israel has been doing in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip since 1948, in Lebanon since September 2024, and in Syria since the collapse of the al-Assad regime in December 2024.
In this context, “dominance” implies the capacity to act unilaterally and project force across borders. Israel wants freedom of operation not only over its neighbouring states – Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, but also over Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, the Gulf states, and even parts of the Horn of Africa, such as Somalia.
Israel has made progress on this aspect of the project by using force against its neighbours. It has also concluded various peace and security agreements with countries in the Eastern Mediterranean.'
This is never covered by most MSM and so people are not informed about what is behind the current attacks by US Israeli forces across the region.
Does @Cje95 support The Greater Israel Project land grabs that Trump and USA military are now enabling?
Interesting, is what Israel is doing according to this project similar to what the USA has done since the end world war 2 by establishing military bases around the world especially in the regions of Europe and Asia? Now the land mass itself wasn’t under the USA but military base are there and military exercises have been and still are be executed at such locations. Or am I way off making this comparison?
Similar perhaps although Israels 'Greater Israel Project' is usually seen as being limited to the Middle East, so regional hegemony as opposed to the US with its global hegemony.
Nearly all of the world is currently subject to US military dominance and monetary dominance.
The petrodollar SWIFT trade payments mechanism supported by its military bases and global power projection has been the US mechanism- but that is now coming under increasing competition from China.
The current middle east war suits both Israels 'Greater Israel' expansion objectives and the US imperative of perpetuating petrodollar dominance.
Today most of the Middle Easts oil and gas exports go to Asia, in particular China and increasingly that trade is being paid for in Yuan not dollars.
By invading Iran which has long accepted yuan for its oil and gas exports to China in direct breach of US sanctions the US is seeking to both make an example of Iran and stop the trend of other middle east energy exporters accepting payment in Yuan.
The Saudis, UAE and others have increasingly been accepting payment in Yuan, not the dollar and are joining mBridge which enables digital trade payments outside of the USD SWIFT system.
Israel may be seeking to expand its regional hegemony as it sees US global hegemony receding and so sees the need to expand its own territory and power projection capacity.
Yea that’s great insight. I’ve heard it said before many years ago that Iran will be Israel’s last Boss to defeat, with all that’s been happening, would you agree with that statement?
Yes Iran appears to be the biggest, perhaps only real challenge to Israel gaining regional hegemony.
Take out Iran and who then could stop them and The Greater Israel Project?
Most other Middle East states are subservient to US military 'protection' and host to US bases- Iran is challenging that and the impact on other gulf states may see some moving away from US-Israeli alignment . . . China is now their biggest market for energy exports and US military looks like not being capable of enforcing its will on Iran.
The Hormuz strait could be the USAs equivalent to what the Suez Crisis was to The British Empire, which saw the end of British Pound dominating global bank reserves and trade payments and switching to the USD in the 1950s.
Now I do have to ask, since WW3 has been discussed since the Cold War, would say that this will be the catalyst that thrust the earth into world war or do we have many more years as Israel continues to expand? And who will the many players on both side?
IMO we are already engaged in WW3, at least to the extent that US-China are fighting via proxies on several fronts already in Ukraine and Middle East...and US is directly involved in Iran conflict.
Without Chinese energy purchases and supply of manufactured goods neither Iran or Russia would be able to engage in the conflicts now ongoing with US and US allies in Middle East and Ukraine.
US is attacking Chinas energy suppliers who have been selling oil and gas for Yuan, in the case of Iran for more than a decade in breach of US-SWIFT sanctions.
China is challenging the US and its petrodollar hegemony...via mercantile success.
China has won the trade war in terms of coming to dominate global trade in manufactured goods and commodities.
US is responding with military aggression to cut Chinas energy supplies.
China is not engaging directly with the US militarily but has cut the supply or refined rare earths US military needs to make most of its high tech military equipment.
China gets low cost supply of oil from Russia and Iran paid for in Yuan and exports and enables both Russia and Iran to challenge US military and monetary hegemony.
'Sun Tzu's philosophy emphasizes strategic victory through understanding and outmaneuvering opponents rather than direct confrontation. The idea is to use intelligence, timing, and adaptability to achieve goals without unnecessary conflict, making the best victories those won without fighting.'
If you want to argue we are in a World War than you need to realize its WWIV because the Cold War was a proxy war as well with both sides deploying soldiers to fight in various proxies.
That is a fair point.
Wow! That’s a great breakdown. Any reading or viewing recommendations for these topics?
For this war as it happens and some background Aljazeera is maybe the best current MSM source.
For a westerner understanding modern China Peter Hesslers books are informative.
On a broader overview and background these docos although not directly related are some of my favourites.
Pakistan opens overland border trade with Iran to assist Iran trade and supplies despite US blockade.
Very cool.
Is there a greater bitcoin project, or still a celebration of weakness aligning with the "intersectional" losers and filled with feminine impotence?
Kill me and other Jews, I do not care, unlike the decadent ones who think there is any horror in death, but enough with this pathetic display of your weakness.
When will bitcoiners express strength rather than whining about those who do?
Bitcoin is inherently and deliberately a challenge to the Zionist bankers who own the Fed Res and enslave the world to debt.
The Zionist bankers who own the Fed Res control the US military industrial complex and direct it to assist them in their Greater Israel land grabs...because they can see the US empire is in decline and the Chinese will not be subservient to Zionist usury.
The largest population of Jews in the middle east outside of Israel is in Iran - Jews have lived there for hundreds of years and nobody is about to kill them, except perhaps the Israeli attacks.
Who do you think wants to kill you?
And why?
As a Jew do you feel The Greater Israel Project is a good thing?
They certainly won't be. Because Bitcoin will be legal in China once the Marxists are out of power.
Marxists are not in power in China.
The CCP of today, despite the name, is a state capitalist-mixed economy model in many ways operating politically upon the principles of The Mandate of Heaven.
Politicians are accountable- arguably more so than in the west, as in China failure to deliver results is likely to lead to removal if not death.
In contrast western politicians go from power to work for the corporate sponsors who owned them all along and seldom if ever are held to account for their failures and corruption.
China has demonstrated superior economic development capability to the crony capitalist west and looks like it could topple the centuries old Zionist debt slavery model of global hegemony.
If you identify as the slave class, to be ruled, yes, you are right at home in China. Lots of bitcoiners have deep slave morality. I realize this contradiction must be very painful for you.
Wages and salaries across the board increase substantially over the last 40 years in China, in real terms, in contrast to what most western economies have experienced... stagnation and increasing debt and insecurity.
The 'rights and freedoms' that westerners claim give them a moral high ground are only built upon the profits from slavery and global resource hegemony and military dominance over 500 years.
A hungry citizen wants food before 'rights' and only when his immediate needs are met and more than satisfied does he start demanding 'rights' from the state.
As this process continues citizens come to demand more and more and offer less and less in return.
The nation state and the quality of its government is a significant factor in the wealth of nations.
As China rises its people still recognise and value the importance of a strong state and its development of the infrastructure and skills that wealth is built.
In the west the sense of entitlement and ignorance of the history or western imperialism and ongoing imperialism predisposes the entire edifice of western civilisation to continued decline.
The party itself disagrees with you. The entire legal system is built around state-worship, outdated economic theories, and trampling individual rights for some fanciful vision of opposing "Western Imperialism." It's Marxist through and through.
Yeah. They are failing to deliver results and they will be held accountable.
The communists haven't even conquered China. They're not going to win the war with the US. Cuba and Venezuela are out of commission, you're cut off from Iranian oil, Russia is busy. Japan, Taiwan, and the US all voted resoundingly against national suicide. It's over.
Officially maybe but in practice, no.
China is now a mixed economy- a pragmatic and powerful hybrid economy - led by state capitalism and with extensive free enterprise underneath that.
The costs of inputs for competitive producers are kept low, creating the most competitive manufacturing economy in the world.
Strategic technologies, infrastructure and supply chains are prioritised by a poliburo composed 80% of engineers- politburo who know that to fail in delivering continued economy success is to risk their necks.
In contrast the wests crony capitalism is captured by big oil, Zionist banksters and other war criminal thugs, buying their way into power and it does not matter who wins they own all the major candidates. They do not have a cohesive strategy for the nation, only their own short sighted greed driven profit targets- and so the masses in the west see their centuries old global domination fading, as a stronger more determined and united China has already won the trade war- dominating global commodity markets and manufactured goods production.
Trump is owned by Zionist war criminals and Chevron.
That you can't recognize that both the US and the PRC are mixed economies, that you actually believe the propaganda claiming that the communists did something special, is how I can tell that you're too retarded to win a full-scale hot war. They accomplished absolutely nothing that the Republic couldn't have done decades sooner with far fewer civilian casualties. The only reason the Chinese leftists managed to make it this far at all is because of American leftists, who now have zero influence on our foreign policy and military for the next two years and have no power to stage a coup because God hates them.
Get this through your silky-smooth brain. Socialism is when the government does stuff. The government cannot manage an economy. It does not lift people out poverty. Literally all it does is harrass working people for extortion fees and then waste their money. Socialism is the same across every culture and ethnicity. It's gang rule. It fails everywhere. What you're describing in China is essentially FDR's New Deal and it failed here just as badly.
Forget the masses. What rational individuals of the West see is that the West's decline is entirely a choice and adherents of leftist ideology are the ones at fault. The US private sector managed to wrest control of the military away from inept government officials and now Laissez-Faire capitalism is free to conquer East and West. The UK, New Zealand, and Canada don't matter. France and Germany don't matter. Those countries can go ahead and kill themselves if they insist.
As long as Japan, Taiwan, and the US want to keep Taiwan free, then it will be free. How many communists have to die is entirely up to Xi Jinping. We want peace. The US is the most peaceful country on earth.
You think "The Government" exists and there is a "private sector?"
All have been infiltrated with philosophy that runs deeper than the categories you think to name, which are mere shadows.
How can one kill what is both everywhere and nowhere?
It is clearly good for them, bad for the people who die. Everyone dies in the end. In the meantime, there is simply the actual reality of the power. Commenting on what is "good" or "bad" is a fun way to distract oneself from the present reality. Re-sentiment of actual reality through morality... isn't that the common thread that has emerged today across most philosophies? When people point out the distinctions, I mostly hear the same noise as when people come with their whitepapers on "blockchain technology" -- what is the core?
Bitcoin is a great way to see the truth of the world... the truth of the world and commentary brings often a sort of pleasure; the full truth of oneself comes with some pain. But the bitcoiner type does not run from that which is hardest so he will find Nietzsche.
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People die but leave behind their achievements and what they have built- this is human civilisation of course.
Agree there is a constant struggle for dominance and power and some Israelis clearly see The Greater Israel Project as 'good' for them but others will have different points of view- especially those from whom the Zionists wish to seize land.
To live a purposeful and meaningful life you need to have some moral compass otherwise you are like a cork floating in the sea.
Ultimately The Greater Israel Project is an ambition which Zionists cannot openly declare as they know the vast majority of humanity would think they are insane religious extremists were they to.
This is why this issue is important to be known and discussed, so that all people can know what it is the Zionists seek and then can respond accordingly.
It seems likely to me that if The Grerater Israel Project is more widely known it will not be good for the Zionists- as it both explains their genocides and land grabs and alerts the world to the danger they pose to all people of the region and arguably everyone on the planet.
As for Bitcoin do not over cook its value- yes it demonstrates a way of organising and exchanging value in a neutral manner that treats all participants equally without fear or favour but it does not solve most of the challenges humans face. It is simply a model that shows there are alternatives, in some areas at least to centralised power structures and algorithmic governance.
Was Hitler a cork floating in the sea? Was Ceaser? Was Napolean? Was Genghis Khan? If you would say they were not, you would then say these men are moral? If you say the morality is highly varied, then why call it morality as if such preferences were more "special" than, for instance, the fact that I prefer drinking coffee from a ceramic mug to a paper cup? -- does the tragedy in America not bother you? How people drink from paper cups everywhere? This too, is left behind, in the culture.
yes, precisely because bitcoin is not an "ultimate answer" I must accuse bitcoin, by and large, being a culture of losers with a will to nothing who must seize power rather than whining and opining impotently as thought experiments of virtue signaling, pretending there is all that substantive of a difference between the American right wing bitcoiner, and the typical American leftist
Morality is to some extent a moving target- it is relative to the time you are in and the context.
Hitler, Ceasar, Napolean and Genghis Khan were men of their time and context and certainly all took strong positions and actions in life.
As a westerner the general apparent decline of US does concern me- it has always been a rather brash and bold culture embracing new and transitory conveniences and customs but is more familiar to me than Chinese culture...but my cultural biases and preferences are not relevant in dispassionately observing the advance of history.
It may be a convenient rule-of-thumb, but it only exists reflexively i.e. to the extent that people believe it, and like bitcoin, it is not a democracy, but a question of economic nodes -- in the economy of moralities, one might ask, what is the dominant morality in actual capacity for power? Obviously, politics has a trivial impact on moving these markets.
Nietzsche invokes the notion of revaluation of values: what if accelerationism will see an acceleration of the turnover of moral values? All this talk of flattened groups... it is lousy philosophy, and it is just slave morality. Morality emerges within the conditions of each individual. People talk about politics because they cannot actually shape the world in a meaningful way. Loser stuff. I can talk to bitcoiners (localism), and therein a culture might emerge that is a bit less sloppy, thereby productive. If bitcoiners were truly individualist islands, they would have zero concerns about things half the world away -- if there is theory about control systems, it is just impotent venting, which means... bitcoin is not enough, today, in the moment we live.
So might as well get busy reading Nietzsche and taking over the world rather than engaging in these turbonormie, I'm 14 and this is edgy noticing, talking points.
There is almost zero awareness of The Greater Israel Project among my contemporaries in the west.
Where there is awareness it is more likely to be one of dull acceptance and apathy.
A strong and healthy culture is built of people concerned about themselves and their interdependence upon others.
The Sovereign Individual movement is typical of the attempt to isolate oneself from the moral and economic decline all around you.
You cannot do it.
You are ultimately interdependent upon those around you to a greater extent than ever before in history.
Supply chains and power structures are more centralised and larger than ever before,.
Many of them a algorithms that watch and know you better than you know yourself.
To disengage from interest in politics and the power structure you are dependent upon is to be a slave...a dumb, ignorant and powerless slave.
Israeli demolition of Lebanese towns while 'ceasefire' is in place.
USA is sponsoring and enabling these land grab war crimes.
Yet another stupid comment since Hezbollah announced last week that they were going to start attacking with suicide bombers. Not to mention they violated the ceasefire first and never stopped.
The original ceasefire agreed between US and Iran included Lebanon.
The Pakistani mediators have confirmed this.
USA failed to get Israeli compliance with that ceasefire condition as Israel do not want to stop fighting.
Bibi needs an excuse to postpone his trial on corruption charges proceeding.
USA is unable to control its only ally in this war- Israel.
Israel is determined to further its Greater Israel Project of territorial expansion before US hegemony further declines. The tail is wagging the dog. Zionists own the US.
USA is sponsoring and enabling The Greater Israel Project land grabs and war crimes.
Trump is now continuing this war in breach of US law as well as international law.
Under the 1973 US War Powers Act, US presidents have 60 days to conduct military action in response to imminent threats. But if Congress does not vote to authorise the war, the president must end military action.
Ah yes Pakistan is the true and trusted source just like they did not know about Bin Laden right?
You completely ignore that Israel stopped all strikes.
You also forget that Hezbollah is not allowed south of the Litani River except..... oh yeah, they are south of it. That's been a violation since 2006.
Also, for someone who claims to know so much about Israeli politics, you would know that not only did the Court recommend dropping the charges against him because of a lack of proof, but also the trial does not affect his job at all. He does not have to resign, and these charges have been going on since 2020, including when he was not PM.
Funny how we dramatically stopped the bloodshed in Gaza, yet we are the ones who are owned. Funny how Israel continues to be a country that has never invaded a neighbor but has been invaded countless times.
Your whole logic lies in a clear-cut, untrustworthy party with Pakistan and the same anti-Semitic tropes that have existed for centuries.
Also, the war powers issue has now been addressed, plus compared to Libya, Trump hasn't done anything near what the new precedent is after President Obama.
'Israel applying tactics used in the destruction of Gaza to Lebanon
Elijah Magnier, a specialist in Middle East regional dynamics and senior political risk analyst, spoke to Al Jazeera about Israel’s war on Lebanon, and how Israel is applying the “Rafah doctrine” – named after the destroyed city in southern Gaza – to Lebanon.
“This is what the Israeli Defence Minister Israeli Katz told us, that in Lebanon, there will apply the ‘Rafah doctrine’, which means flattening everything,” Magnier told Al Jazeera.
“Destroying homes, schools, universities, hospitals. Everything that they can see and leave nothing for the people,” he said.
The focus is to destroy so completely that local Lebanese people no longer “know the previous topography of the land” and “not allow anyone to return”.
“This is what the Israelis are doing because they are unaccountable and because they think they can get away with it by having the blessing of the United States of America,” Magnier said.
This is “exactly what they have done in Gaza, and nobody rendered them accountable”.'
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/5/1/iran-war-live-tehran-says-us-ports-siege-intolerable-trump-mulls-action
You don't like flattening? Yet, you whine like a democrat woman who can do nothing. Hence, you are already flattened.
Go start your own country if you don't like it and declare war on Israel!