An interesting article. I don't know if @Solomonsatoshi will agree with it, but it sounds very interesting to me.
But one aspect of the conflict remains as clear today as it was six weeks ago. Donald Trump doesn’t have a plan. Benjamin Netanyahu does.
This is very true. Whoever has eyes to see and ears to hear can see and understand this quite clearly.
A seasoned strategist (Netanyahu), he has spent the second Trump administration seizing the opportunity of geopolitical fluidity to reach for his end goal: a Greater Israel.
Netanyahu’s only goal.
In his public pronouncements, Netanyahu has connected some of the dots of his project for Greater Israel dominion. Just days before the start of this war, during a visit to Israel by the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, Netanyahu shared his vision to “create an entire system, essentially a kind of hexagon of alliances around or within the Middle East”, including “India, Arab nations, African nations, Mediterranean nations (Greece and Cyprus), and nations in Asia”. Israel would be the key nodal point of this alliance.
This is the key to understanding what is happening. This is Netanyahu’s true objective. Everything else is simply populist rhetoric.
In the long list of postwar challenges, deterring and containing this project of Greater Israel dominion might be among the most important.
Totally agreed!
'In recent speeches, Netanyahu has started referring to Israel not only as a “regional superpower”, but “in some respects, a global superpower”. Israel is looking to place itself at the centre of a regional alliance that could be sustained even if US power draws down.'
I only stumbled upon the notion of The Greater Israel Project' a few months ago and am far from an expert on it- but what fascinates me is it does seem to explain the otherwise incomprehensible role and actions of Israel.
I also speculate that as US power declines and China is increasingly an equal to or even more significant in economic and strategic terms Israel is strongly motivated to grow its own independent regional hegemony, military and strategic power.
It seems like TGIP is a taboo subject which most MSM excluding the Guardian and Aljazeera will not cover.
It seems odd to me that so many on Stacker News who generally identify as Libertarians and standing for individuals freedom and rights seek to ignore both the war in the middle east and The greater Israel project.
This is perhaps the most extreme example of state power projection and expansion in the world today but many see it as something to be silenced and not discussed. Hard to understand that stance...unless many 'Libertarians' are in fact closet statists and supporters of US and Israeli militarism and hegemony.
Fake news. If Netanyahu was in fact aspiring to implement the "greater Israel" project then the entire Judea and Samaria would've been populated with millions of Jews and annexed by Israel years ago. Instead, only about %60 of the area is populated with a few hundred thousand despite countless attempts by Jews to establish a regular presence in the remaining %40. Netanyahu actively keeps it off limits for Jews (he's strongly opposed to breaking the status quo established by the Oslo agreements) and has in fact violently suppressed every attempt by Jews to settle the area. Same with Syria and Lebanon, where only an ad hoc IDF presence is maintained and any attempts at civilian settlement are actively prevented.
Bottom line is that Netanyahu is a tool in the hands of globalist interests and has no aspiration to annex territory. His agenda is serving international banking whose interest is the establishment of a Palestinian state in the Israeli heartland
Respect me and respect yourself. I'm not watching 15 minutes of Bibi spewing propaganda. Give me a relevant quote that you think supports your claim and I'll respond accordingly
No respect is deserved.
You make completely false assertions, are given the evidence which explicitly refutes those false assertions, and then you seek to evade and obfuscate like a bullshitting Zionist apologist troll.
What false assertion?
Where's the evidence?
Provide one quote from Bibi mentioning territorial expansion in the context of greater Israel
In August 2025, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with Israeli TV channel i24News that he was on a "historic and spiritual mission" and that he is "very" attached to the vision of Greater Israel, which includes Palestinian areas and possibly also places that are part of Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Israel
Bring the source. I can make up quotes and put them on Wikipedia too. Get serious
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-says-hes-on-a-historic-and-spiritual-mission-endorses-vision-of-greater-israel/