Arab nations fume after Netanyahu says he feels connection to vision of Greater IsraelTimes of Israel, Aug 14, 2025
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.
The term Greater Israel refers to Israel in expanded borders in accordance with biblical or historical descriptions, and has many versions, some of which include parts of today’s Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. It was popularized after the Six Day War of June 1967 to also refer to Israel and the areas it had just conquered — East Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights.
It is still adopted by some far-right figures in Israel who express a desire to annex or eventually control many of those territories.
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