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As incursions by Israel continue into the refugee-occupied territories of Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank, there has been ramped-up concern over the concept of Greater Israel (Eretz Yisrael Hashlema – the biblically promised Land of Israel) becoming more a reality. These concerns exist against the backdrop of Prine Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s affinity for the idea. His own Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich continues to flaunt the idea —much to the consternation of the Arab and Western world.
The extension of Israel’s influence here is contentious. It could remain in the realm of political dominance of the region, or as Smotrich and other expansionists envision the doctrine, it would see Israel expanding its borders to Damascus. One could apply a literal maximalist Biblical interpretation of Genesis 15: 18-21 which would see it controlling territories from the Euphrates River to the Nile; or parts of Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. Given, as I will argue, that not one single Islamic state in the Middle East has legitimate sovereignty—that degree of expansionism, too, would be moral.
In the immediate future, that expansionism must start with crushing the capabilities of Iran to ever develop nuclear weapons. Military strikes against Iran to annihilate its military infrastructure and come to the aid of the Iranian people who were once part of a magnificent civilization are imminent. It is time to rid them of their oppressive and despicable theocratic regime.
What I intend to do in this article is not debate the coordination, plausibility, or practicality of the application of Greater Israel. Instead, I offer a moral defense of the idea itself. That is, I will argue, given the existence of certain geopolitical existential threats in the Middle East – which, among other things, undermine Israel’s security – that Israel’s expansionist doctrine is both morally and strategically defensible. I will also argue that sovereignty, properly understood, is not a political concept applicable to the politically regressive countries that comprise the Middle East.
My position is hardline: whether we are talking about Israeli expansionism from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, the Euphrates River to the Nile River, those countries that operate under a Koranic mandate to destroy Israel and eliminate Jewry have every right to be subjugated under Israeli law and inducted into the pantheon of civilizational order. My idea here is not just expansionism, but political incarceration of globally indecent societies. Israel must and will have to become the dominant political hegemon in the entire Middle East—a moral-political imperium to maintain geo-political stability and civilizational order.
Historical memories will serve us well here. From its re-inception in 1948, Israel was faced with the onslaught of the Arab-Israeli war by Transjordan (now) Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon. Supporting expeditions came from Yemen and Saudi Arabia. They all had the intention of building a Pan-Arab confederacy to annihilate the newly re-formed state of Israel.
In 1950 Jordan illegally annexed Judea and Samaria, both of which Israel legally and morally recaptured in the 1967 Day War. Those who look to regional factionalism, internecine squabbles, and alleged irreversible hatred among Islam’s Sunni-Shia divide overlook the fact that Jew hatred and hatred for Israel is stronger than these hatreds predicated on a narcissism of minor difference.
Writing neither as a conservative nor liberal but simply as an independent, I believe a Greater Israel ought to achieve certain moral imperatives against the backdrop of what unites the Arab states into what we may call a Conceptual Common Denominator; that is, attributes that unite them all in a way that poses an existential threat to Isreal.
They are all united by Islam, which is both a religion and a political and civilizational doctrine unified by Sharia. The core to all Islamic doctrine is to ensure that there exists an Islamic state throughout the entire world which is called a Caliphate. Nowhere is this more evident and explicit than in the Charter of Hamas that also calls for the elimination of Jewry from the Middle East and the entire world, the elimination of all non-Muslims and the establishment of a global Caliphate. Any Charter, whether it is that of the Palestinian Authority or Hamas (both terrorist organizations) rooted in a religious doctrine that calls for the elimination of a people from a region and ultimately from the world; and further, that authorizes anyone belonging to the religion to issue a fatwa, which in contemporary political Islam is a nihilistic license to kill anyone critical of Islam by any vigilante whose sensibilities are offended by reasonable criticisms against Islam, is a Genocidal Doctrine. Elimination of a people as enshrined in a governing constitution or charter from a region and the world is a eugenical doctrine mandating genocide.
If the source out of which arises a genocidal doctrine fully consistent with the political ideology of Islam is not vanquished, then Israel is complicit in the genocide of her own people. Such societies and countries must be subjugated and controlled by the only country in the region that is not a politically failed state—Israel. There is a duty mandated by Islam to expand Islamic law worldwide. When states cannot declare jihad, then individual Muslims are expected to execute the mandate.
Let us not forget that our very own Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who fled the Netherlands for the United States, must live under 24-hour police protection since she became critical of Islam over two decades ago. She has been the subject of multiple fatwas and death threats. The director of her short film Submission, Theo Van Gogh, was assassinated by an ordinary Muslim for the simple reason that the film dared to be critical of the treatment of women in Islamic societies. Remember the twelve people murdered at the office of the magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France for the crime of depicting the Muslim prophet Mohammed? The killers were, again, two ordinary Algerian, French-born Muslims who identified as members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Acting under the auspices of Islam, we find that such individuals are not acting under the regulative principles of a restraining ideology; rather, they are ones that allow the homicidal impulses—the nihilistic ferality if you will—of sheer brutes, to run amok in the civilized world. The fact that Israel is surrounded by such countries with prevailing doctrines is untenable. They are failed states in the political sense, moral cesspits that must be reined in by Israel.
This genocidal component inherent in the charters of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority explains why Israel’s attempts to establish peace and the closest plausible achievement of a two-state solution have failed miserably. As Caroline Glick points out in The Israeli Solution, the PLO-established Palestinian Authority never amended its charter which not only calls for the destruction of Israel, but added incendiary anti-Jewish materials to the school curriculum. Children were taught to seek a violent jihad to annihilate Jews, whom they were taught are subhuman evildoers who must be annihilated for Muslims to be free.
To dispel the lie that Israel has fought against peace and a two-state solution, Glick invites us to remember some key facts. In July 2000, President Clinton brought Ehud Barak, Israel’s tenth Prime Minister, and Yasser Arafat, head of the PLO, and their negotiating teams to Camp David with the intent of achieving a peace deal. During the two-week summit, Barak made the Palestinians offers of peace that, in Glick’s words, “were unprecedented.” He offered to share sovereignty over Jerusalem. This was something no Israeli leader had ever done before. He offered them all of Gaza, 92 percent Judea and Samaria, and control of the Jordan valley. And how did Arafat and the Palestinians respond to such Israeli benevolence?
By declaring a vicious Second Intifada, which saw the slaughter of over 1,000 Jews and 64 foreign nationals.
Again, as Glick points out, on September 16, 2008, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the PLO, a comprehensive offer of peace and Palestinian statehood. It was an even more benevolent and expansive offer than the previous one. On the condition to end the Palestinian conflict with Israel, Olmert offered Abbas 94 percent of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), and an additional 327 square kilometers of land within sovereign Israel adjacent to the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria. He offered the Palestinians sovereignty over the Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem and offered to transfer sovereignty over the Temple and other sacred areas of Jerusalem’s Old City to an international body. He also offered a limited right of return of immigration to a truncated Israel to descendants of Arabs who left Israel in 1948-49.
Abbas rejected the offer. After Israel unilaterally withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005 and handed it to the Palestinian Authority, and it was taken over by Hamas in 2007, how was Israel treated? From then until now it was besieged by barrages of rocket attacks. Between 2005 and 2014 there were about 20,000 rockets and mortars fired from Gaza into Israel. In 2021 under Operation Guardian of the Walls, more than 4,300 rockets were fired in just 11 days. And in its October 7, 2023, attack against Israel, Hamas initiated its massive surprise attack with a barrage of over 5,000 rockets.
In response to Olmert’s proposal, Abbas waged a propagandistic campaign at the United Nations to achieve Palestinian sovereign statehood status beyond the framework of a peace treaty with Israel. During this time, he refused to meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu and steadfastly rejected any attempts to renew the establishment of a Palestinian state at peace with Israel. (Glick, pp.72-73).
But should any of this have come as a surprise to the world, and to Israel in particular? How can one reason with and negotiate with terrorists whose sole aim is to dismember your citizens through a pay-for-slay program, wipe out your entire people from the region, and follow a doctrine that explicitly forbids negotiating with “the enemy”? The good faith and benevolence of Israel which acted with full knowledge of the evil contained in the PLO charter is unprecedented. Peace is inimical to the mandates of the Charter. There could not have been, and will never be, peace with such individuals. The antidote to this dilemma, as I have written elsewhere is, among other things, the total annexation of Judea and Samaria.
Abbas had a lot of audacity demanding sovereignty. The same audacity holds for every Islamic country in the world governed by Sharia which makes the changing of faith (apostasy) a capital offense punishable by death. Israel has every right to invade, if it wishes to, and subjugate every Middle Eastern country because, as I shall argue, not one of them can claim the right to de jure sovereignty; de facto sovereignty is merely sovereignty by custom.
Sovereignty is neither an irreducible political primary, nor a legalistic axiom. It is subjected to principles of constraints: the constraints of justice for all, equality before the law for all, and the protection of freedoms which include the right to bodily integrity, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience and opinion, freedom of assembly, freedom of religious worship, and the freedom to pursue a conception of the good life consonant with one’s unique disposition and orientation as a human being.
In the modern age, since the birth of political liberalism in the 17th century, proper governance has come from the free will of the people who consent to be governed on the condition that political actors protect their rights and protect their well-being as human beings. Political actors have a delegative role in politics. As John Stuart Mill, the 19th century classical liberal philosopher reminds us, political actors are our tenants, our servants. We employ them to protect our property, chief among them being the property we own in our personhood. We the people employ them to vouchsafe the inviolability and inalienability of our God-given rights. We authorize them to govern in our name by means of a social contract. It is the people who confer autonomous status on the state to grant it leverage to perform its function as fiduciary of the people. If sovereignty has any principle of irreducibility affixed to it, then it is grounded in the will of a rational people who could never and will never will their own subjugation, oppression, and evisceration of their legal personalities. No rational people could conceivably will their own destruction.
By this logic, every Islamic country governed by Sharia that mandates gender-apartheid, non-religious reciprocity, and the totalitarian prescription of how a life ought to be lived, nullifies its own sovereignty. Their de facto sovereignty is invalid because the philosophical foundational principles establishing de jure sovereignty are already explicitly invalidated via a violation of the social contract by which a rational people form a government and thereby enter the historical process.
For several reasons, Lebanon cannot be a sovereign nation; not when it has Hezbollah, a terrorist organization, governing broad swaths of the country—especially in the South, and when it poses an existential threat to Israel. It has usurped the proper function of a government and of what a free society ought to look like. The fact is that countries that systematically violate the rights of their citizens forfeit any legitimate claim to sovereignty. They therefore exist in a state of nature, and outside the historical process. In this case, it is up to Israel to assume the default duty of politically incarcerating such nations to both protect its own national self-interests, and to protect the rights of citizens of such politically failed states. Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Qatar are terrorist states. That they use their sovereignty for the purpose of sponsoring Jihadism and terror to make a mockery of the noble ideal enshrined in the concept of sovereignty, should alarm all of us.
State constitutions that are pernicious and constitutively destructive of Jews and non-Muslims supersede the will of a rational people. If we find such situations, as is the case with many Palestinian Gazans who still support Hamas, that the will of a people are in alignment with codified precepts of destruction, then Israel can and should properly retake ownership of the entire Gaza Strip. Terrorists and their supporters have no business governing a country.
It is embarrassing to make invidious comparisons here, but when we think of Israel we think of a country that has Arab-Israeli citizens in their Knesset, an Arab-Israeli Christian judge, George Karra, who presided over the Tel Aviv District Court panel that convicted and sentenced former Israeli President Moshe Katsav to seven years in prison for rape in 2010-2011. Karra later served as a Supreme Court of Israel justice from 2017 to 2022. Israel also has several wealthy Arab families running major businesses such as Nazareth Transport and Tourism and the Affi Group. Israel has granted citizenship and permanent residency to 2—2.1 million Arabs who live with full equal rights accorded to all Israeli citizens. They make up to 20-21% of Israel’s population. Are there any Jews sitting in the so-called houses of representation in Iran, Jordan, Saudia Arabia, Lebanon, Syria, or any Islamic country in the Middle East? The answer is a resounding no.
So much for Israel being an apartheid state.
Short of an Islamic Reformation, it will be difficult to justify the proper sovereignty of any Islamic state. And, given the fact that if we were to subject each nation to a political decency test in terms of rights protection (remembering here also, that Israel serves as a refuge for Christians and sexual minorities living in the Middle-East, sexual minorities beheaded in Saudi Arabia, and violently persecuted in every Islamic state in the region), which nation would come out with the highest scores? That would be Israel. By any judicious and fair standard, Israel has the right to proclaim political and civilization supremacy. It has the moral right to conquer, and place in political receivership any one of those politically regressive countries operating under the guise of pseudo-sovereignty.
Let us remember that under Islamic rule, Sharia or Islamic law is the law of the land. The world is divided into two parts under Islamic political ideology. The Dar al-Islam where Sharia is the law of the land, and where the punishment for apostasy in all Islamic countries is death, and the Dar-al-Harb, the “house of war” where Sharia is not the law of the land. The whole function of Islam is to annihilate Dar al-Harb until the entire world becomes Dar al-Islam. The means of achieving this is Jihad—war against all non-Muslims. Proof of this exists in the fact that the three largest sponsors of terrorism in the world—as mentioned before—happen to be near Israel. They are, again: Iran, governed by a monstrously evil theocratic regime; Saudi Arabia, a medieval kingdom where the concepts of individual rights and liberty are alien concepts; and Qatar, another politically regressive fiefdom that along with the two previously mentioned countries, sponsor terrorist cells including Hezbollah and Hamas, and surreptitiously plot the destruction of the West and Israel in particular. The worldwide sponsorship of terrorism by rogue states in such proximity to Israel entices other Arab states to engage in roguery.
When we speak of the Middle East, except for Israel, two words should come to mind: rogue states. These countries are ecological, political ballasts that destroy the political happiness of their citizens. They are radical social disruptors and moral sinkholes that drag the region down into a state of geopolitical insecurity. Israel always faces the looming threat of reformed religious Pan-Arab nationalism, a more virulent Islamism, or some distorted version of Pan-Arabism that could arise at any time—Jew hatred always supersedes tribal and national factionalism.
I have given only a partial moral defense for a Greater Israel here, given the confines of space. A more detailed and comprehensive defense should be forthcoming in a book project. Let us not fool ourselves into thinking that Islamic rogue states can be politically rehabilitated. The only solution is for Israel to radically dominate them by removing their sphere of influence from the region. This entails, among other things, merging with the United States to ensure that they cannot use their economic resources for evil purposes. This means controlling their economic infrastructures; waging a counter jihad against theirs and stop pretending that peace is possible with those who hate you and constitutionally will your destruction.
Greater Israel must proclaim its civilizational supremacy in the region and cease to care about its image in the world—after all, a sizable portion of Western countries are filled with world leaders and citizens who are Jew haters. No amount of temporizing, compromising and mouthing stale generalities, platitudes, shopworn bromides, virtue-signaling, and performing political connections when literally none can be made with any country in that region—will solve Israel’s dilemma. Until Israel announces that it is the epicenter and the future of the Middle East, there will be no solution. Those who fail to heed the face of Greater Israel will face חשבון זועם – a wrathful reckoning.
A moral civilizational supremacy of Israel over its neighbors? Israeli Jews and also Bedouins do that in their sleep. Sea slugs and even stationary molluscs in the Mediterranean are morally superior and they’re barely sentient. Hell, cephalopods are molluscs and they’re more intelligent than Israel’s islamopithecine neighbors. Cleaner too, because they live in water, not filth and oil.
I’m only half joking but then, islamopithecines are only half human.
I see we have a seas slug slithering over this thread.
35 years ago tonight… Operation Desert Storm was told to stop kicking ass.
Then 12 years of No Fly Zones.
Then 2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Then some Marxist came up with the guilt trip of “forever wars”
It makes it worse if you have no history to know of.
We keep being talked down to that Muslims are the victims and that we’re the problem.
Anyone pushing this is pushing Third World Marxism.
There ya go… finally a comment worthy of a discussion! Worthy of articles here on FPM…
A subject that I’ve been preaching for decades… how the Jews are hated and viewed as being the world’s problem…
Sadly… Jews can be their own worst enemies too…
It’s a never ending struggle… How does one support what they don’t care about?
Ugh…
The Jews are a distraction. It’s about promoting Islam by attacking the Jews.
And then Christians and every other group that’s portrayed as the real problem. Not Islam.
It is about the Jews or more precisely what the Jews represent – a mindboggling, highly successful, group. The Overseas Chinese are also hated everywhere they go for being so highly successful. As Thomas Sowell said, if the Jews want the haters to stop hating them then they need to become failures.
At the heart of Marxism is the hatred of the good for being the good. Hatred of the intelligent for being intelligent. The talented, hardworking, successful for being talented, hardworking, and successful, Hatred of the happy, self-supporting, and independent individual for for being happy, self-supporting, and independent.
“Envy is regarded by most people as a petty, superficial emotion and, therefore, it serves as a semihuman cover for so inhuman an emotion that those who feel it seldom dare admit it even to themselves. . . . That emotion is: hatred of the good for being the good….
They do not want to own your fortune, they want you to lose it; they do not want to succeed, they want you to fail; they do not want to live, they want you to die; they desire nothing, they hate existence, and they keep running, each trying not to learn that the object of his hatred is himself . . . . They are the essence of evil, they, those anti-living objects who seek, by devouring the world, to fill the selfless zero of their soul. It is not your wealth that they’re after. Theirs is a conspiracy against the mind, which means: against life and man.” – Ayn Rand
I feel dirty having read your comment. Ugh.
We’re also being talked down to that blacks, “browns,” trannies, homosexuals and Karens are the victims and we’re the problem. Oikophobia does that to delusional freaks and Western male whiteys are at the top of their hate/hit list, particularly American Mighty Whiteys.
It must tear them up that guys like me tear through so many moslem, black, “brown,” self described lezbo and even Karen chicks on my good days. I don’t oppress anybody but I do feel victorious. That’s MY Forever Campaign. Until the day I’m too old and ugly……which is never.
And the Assahola and his five top oppressors are dead and decomposing. What a glorious Saturday for Iran, Israel, America and me. Now all I need is a beer to make my celebration complete. Eat it, lefties. There are a few creeping around this website at any given time. Probably more than a few, mostly fake news media and amateur troll spies. Go ahead and report on pro-American humanism, you vermin. Yes, we rightly hate toxic islam.
Judea and Samaria is enough for now. Gaza should be a DMZ
The Greasy Strip should be bulldozed into Egypt.
It should be depopulated of Muslims, and rebuilt as a resort destination. The Arab morons had a chance to do that, but rather than build something, they only want destruction.
So… the ‘Greater Israel Project’ does exist…
Ugh…
Not only do we have Jews that don’t believe Israel should even exist as a nation today… we have other Jews that are pushing from the Nile to the Euphrates… ‘The Greater Israel Project’…
PS… UGH !!
Daniel Greenfield, for whom I have the deepest respect, has twice in comment threads in which I was a participant, stated there is no “Greater Israel Project.” But, by whatever name it might be called, scripture gives it as a promise to the descendants of Abraham and Zionists depend upon it as one of their wedge arguments.
I also have deep respect for Mr. Hill, whose dogged pursuit of truth and logic should be an example to everyone.
No nation really has any “right to exist” including both Israel and the U.S. It is God alone Who establishes nations with their times and boundaries (Job 12:23 and Acts 17:26). That said, all nations exist by conquest and defense, which almost invariably means bloody war. And war is no respecter of persons or their “rights.”
Mr. Hill bases sovereignty upon a morality made popular by the post-war liberal consensus– that sovereignty requires “the constraints of justice for all, equality before the law for all, and the protection of freedoms which include the right to bodily integrity, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience and opinion, freedom of assembly, freedom of religious worship, and the freedom to pursue a conception of the good life consonant with one’s unique disposition and orientation as a human being.” If nations do not have this morality, then their sovereignty is forfeit and they deserve to be conquered by a “reasonable people” who will impose this upon them at sword point or thermobaric weapons.
What is “freedom?” What is the moral good? Government cannot be based upon Mr. Hill’s idea of freedom or the will of “reasonable people” because it will invariably result in the multiculti hell in which we now live. Freedom is not license. It must be tied to duty and most especially to moral duty. Reason alone will not give us the good. Christian morality is necessary for our nation’s blessings. It is the sine qua non of our nation and its blessings.
The U.S. has sought to impose our morality and form of government on other nations for too long. It doesn’t work for them. Quite frankly, it no longer works for us as we Christians turn our backs upon our Creator.
What is Freedom!!?!? <<< A great question… one that I had been wanting to ask everyone…
PS… I love your level headed comments… you're awesome… 🙂
Please allow me to answer your question.
Freedom is the knowledge that there is a God who created you, who loves you so much that He died for you and who has promised to return to take you to His Fathers house (that has many mansions) and who has also prepared a paradise for you (and all of His family of believers) to share with Him for all Eternity !
What is a believer, you ask? Anyone who chooses to believe that Jesus Christ is Lord and is Lord of their lives by admitting their sinful nature (sin = breaking God’s law…you get caught speeding, you are breaking man’s law….in either case, their is a price to pay, a penalty. Break man;’s law and you get a fine or lose your license. Break God’s law and you suffer eternal punishment in hell; but asking God’s forgiveness and then accepting the blood price that was already paid on that cruel Roman cross and asking God to change you from within will get you into Paradise. You will become a new and different person by the presence of the Holy Spirit when you, by faith, declare you have chosen to believe in God’s Son. Yes, it’s all about Jesus !
The Bible in three words….Jehovah (OT)…Jesus (NT)… Jerusalem (Revelation).
Rev. Roy…………<
The Bill of Rights and Free Market Capitalism are manifestations and implementations of RATIONAL SECULARISM. They have nothing to with religion and mysticism.
“All rights rest on the fact that man’s life is the moral standard. Rights are rights to the kinds of actions necessary for the preservation of human life. Just as “it is only the concept of ‘life’ that makes the concept of ‘value’ possible,” so it is only the requirements of man’s life that make morality, and thus the concept of “rights,” possible.
All rights rest on the fact that man survives by means of reason. Rights are rights to the actions necessary for the preservation of a rational being. Only an entity with a conceptual faculty has judgment on which to act, volition with which to select goals, and intelligence with which to create wealth.
All rights rest on the fact that man is a productive being. Rights presume that men can live together without anyone’s sacrifice. If man merely consumed objects provided in a static quantity by nature, every man would be a potential threat to every other. In such a case, the rule of life would have to be that which governs the lower species: seize what you can be before others get it, eat or be eaten, kill or be killed.
All rights rest on the ethics of egoism. Rights are an individual’s selfish possessions—his title to his life, his liberty, his property, the pursuit of his own happiness. Only a being who is an end in himself can claim a moral sanction to independent action. If man existed to serve an entity beyond himself, whether God or society, then he would not have rights, but only the duties of a servant.” – Leonard Peikoff
“The right of a nation to determine its own form of government does not include the right to establish a slave society (that is, to legalize the enslavement of some men by others). There is no such thing as “the right to enslave.” A nation can do it, just as a man can become a criminal—but neither can do it by right.
It does not matter, in this context, whether a nation was enslaved by force, like Soviet Russia, or by vote, like Nazi Germany. Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). Whether a slave society was conquered or chose to be enslaved, it can claim no national rights and no recognition of such “rights” by civilized countries . . . .
Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet Russia, Cuba or any other slave pen. Whether a free nation chooses to do so or not is a matter of its own self-interest, not of respect for the non-existent “rights” of gang rulers. It is not a free nation’s duty to liberate other nations at the price of self-sacrifice, but a free nation has the right to do it, when and if it so chooses.
This right, however, is conditional. Just as the suppression of crimes does not give a policeman the right to engage in criminal activities, so the invasion and destruction of a dictatorship does not give the invader the right to establish another variant of a slave society in the conquered country.” – Ayn Rand
Look at a map.
Israel is tiny and has been getting smaller since the Camp David Accords in 1978, decade by decade.
Yes… we know that Daniel… the few that do recognize the Truth…
Israel has given up land for peace since after the Balfour and the 1922 Remo conference…
But… the rest of the world see’s it differently. And we don’t have the support to refute those crazy ideas… and those ideas are growing… even through podcasters… the hatred is fermenting…
We have to do more to debunk these ideas… we need to reach out to these people and explain the dire situation…
Israel and the inhabitants are going to be facing some seriously troubling times…
We need to talk about Islam.
Instead of ‘defending Israel’, we should be talking about the real problem and ignoring distractions
I disagree…
I can’t think of a better platform than FPM to discuss how Israel came about… it’s history… the challenges it faces in a satanic islamic fascist world… and so forth.
Even refuting the hearsay which feeds Jewish hatred. <<< That alone is an extremely important topic.
Right now… I question who really can?
We need to talk about religion and mysticism versus rational secularism. All religions when practiced seriously and comprehensively lead to theocracy and the downgrading of life on earth and the pursuit of happiness on earth for some alleged higher value of a life after death.
Marxism is a form of irrationality, mysticism, magical thinking, it is in essence a religion pretending to be rational philosophy.
“Religion vs. America” by Leonard Peikoff
Good point. Ignoring islam in defense of Israel is what the islamopithecines and lefties want us to do. It’s a crude trap and it works on stupid people and even many otherwise intelligent ones.
Ordinary people need to educate themselves about those enemies of humanity at sources like this one.
Of course the map reveals what is happening, but it says nothing about aspirations.
This article can be distilled into one idea. The militarily stronger tribe makes the rules and slaughters the others who then wait centuries for revenge. These tribes and religions have fought for 3000 years and will continue to do so. The muslim/Jewish divide makes a convenient cover for the thirst for power in a desolate land. Without oil, no-one would know the difference or give a hoot.
Hadrian fixed the problem for 2000 years. His method is the only way to solve the situation. The Jews or Muslim tribes feel they must totally dominate or the border wars will always continue. There has been no political evolution in the area since the dawn of history. Why should it be different today?
Tribalism is the story of history. Feelings of superiority created by wealth or religion fuel the fires. The white tribes of Europe still have border wars continually. Russia and Ukraine come to mind. The USA while created as a colony for criminals and misfits developed and continues the historic European tribal/financial struggles worldwide. Josephus spent a long time in a cave figuring this out. There are quite a few Jews today following in his footsteps. The moral superiority card has been played continually and consequently is a joke. When oil is scientifically bypassed there is a small chance of reconciliation in the region.
Everything you wrote is ahistorical nonsense. It’s insane, actually. You need therapy.
I think Blackdog is being very insightful, exercising a separate perspective. There is nothing in his perspective that conflicts with anything in Jason’s article or Daniel’s comments.
Tribes and religions which have fought for 3000 years? That’s a deranged fantasy. Jews slaughtered Psuedostinians who didn’t exist in the ancient world and don’t even exist now except as a fictional ethnicity invented in 1973? The Philistines were Greek invaders and the Jews didn’t slaughter them.
Israel rendered its land fertile when it had been desolate under the motley crew of islamopithecines who squatted their under the Ottoman Empire and British administrated Palestine Mandate for Jews: Arabs, Circassians, Abyssinians, Bedouins, Turks, et al.
Arabs didn’t exist when Bar Kokhbite waged his idiotic and doomed rebellion against the Roman Empire. “Hadrian eventually summoned his most experienced general, Sextus Julius Severus, from Britain to crush the rebellion. After three years of brutal warfare, Roman forces prevailed through systematic annihilation – destroying 50 fortified towns and 985 villages according to Cassius Dio’s account. With Jerusalem’s fall in 135 CE, Hadrian implemented radical measures to erase Jewish identity from the region. The emperor: Officially renamed Judea as Syria Palaestina, co-opting the name of ancient Philistines. Rebuilt Jerusalem as the Roman colony Aelia Capitolina, complete with temples to Jupiter and other Roman deities. Instituted an urban plan that still influences modern Jerusalem’s layout, including the central Cardo Maximus (now Damascus Street.) Banned Jews from entering the city on pain of death, enforcing this prohibition with a shrine to Venus atop the Temple Mount. These actions went beyond typical Roman punishment for rebellion. Hadrian sought to permanently sever the Jewish people’s spiritual connection to their holiest city through systematic cultural erasure.” That caused the Tird Diaspora except for the Mizrahim who managed to stay.
Russia and the Ukraine aren’t tribes or even tribal, they’re countries and they aren’t mono-ethnic.
The notion that “the USA was created as a colony for criminals and misfits (and) developed and continues the historic European tribal/financial struggles worldwide” is bat-shit insane. Jews and their homeland of Israel have not not claimed moral superiority over the Psuedostinian Paleosimians continuously even though they’re irrefutably morally superior and in fact, superior in EVERY WAY. Their moral superiority is even more striking than their superiority of intelligence, which is the widest in the entire world. Jews are the most intelligent people in the world and the average IQ of Psuedostinians is 80 at the most, which is mentally retarded. Only Somalis are dumber and more bestial.
And reconciliation in “the region” is a fiction and not based on oil. It’s based on President Trump’s Abraham Accords signed by Israel, America, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, Morocco and Kazakhstan, which isn’t a reconciliation but a cessation of hostility by the islamic countries. Israel’s Psuedostinians will never stop their Jihad against Jews until they’re annihilated, and the same goes for “Palestinian” Islamic Jihad, the “Palestine” Authority, Hezb’allah, and all the other jihadi terrorist groups.
Not insightful, not even remotely a perspective separate from the islamic fantasies and it completely conflicts with everything in Jason Hill’s article and Daniel Greenfield’s comments.
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AOL still exists? Nobody reliable still uses it, trolltard.
You ignore the jihad imperative, which is central to Islam. Consequently, your argument is baseless.
Yes, he ignores ignores jihad and plenty of reality. That makes him deranged.
People hyperventilate about Greater Israel as if Iran doesn’t want complete hegemony over the region, or the Turks don’t want to reconstitute the Ottoman Empire, etc, I heard one idiot, passing himself off as a geopolitical expert, saying that Greater Israel would encompass “all of Egypt, all of Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States. He may want to consult a map.
He may want to try psychoanalysis.
I am down now to 4 appointments a week. Thank you very much!
That’s a good one! I’ll give you credit for that.
It looks like the 46 year old aspirations of the Iranian mullahs just met President Trump and MAGA. The Assahollah and at least 40 of his senior leadership are dead, their ISLAMIC Devolutionary Goon Corpses are being annihilated, their nuclear weapons and missile facilities are smoldering rubble and their NAVY is doubtlessly at the bottom of the Persian Gulf.
Even before the total neutering of the mullah’s terrorist forces, they had absolutely zero capability of waging a war and their wimpy attempts at retaliation were a joke.
Lezzy Warren and other detested D-Bag media darlings are currently denying reality of course, shrieking about an illegal regional war and other whacko anti-American bullshit. Inbred Omar and Ragheada Tlaib are barking at fire hydrants and pissing on them. I’d say that along with the D-Bag fake news media they’d all gone full retard but they already went there when Don and Melania descended from on high down the Golden Escalator at Trump Towers on Inaugerration Day, 2017.
It’s a joy to see the stupid ass lies of D-Bags and their moslem allies exposed and crushed on a minute to minute timeline. Remember ther deranged reaction to Iranian liberty when you vote in the midterms.
One is a country and people whose origins start at the foot of Mt. Sinai. The others are tribes whose “countries” are existent thanks to the British reconfiguring these tribal sand lands and apportioning them as “countries”. The currently known demarcations of the Nation of Israel are but a part of the original, everlasting covenantal land given to Israel by G-d. In reading the Tenach (Jewish Torah, Prophets and Writings), G-d made it evident that He is the force governing the removal of the idolatrous, pagan, sexually-repugnant tenants of the ancient lands that He established for the people of Israel, collectively referred to by G-d as His “firstborn son”.
The condemnation of Israel is an easily inflicted wound by societies that today fall into similar categories of those ancient peoples G-d sequentially vomited out of the land.
The precepts upon which the Land of Israel remain predicated are those given by G-d Almighty. He gave us not only the Ten Commandments but also those additional directives (mitzvot) upon which a moral people would live as an example for all nations.
Clearly, Israel has both an historical as well as a contemporary civilization born from this eternal covenant and G-d’s changeless directives. None of these tribally governed, hateful, Islamic regimes were included in this covenant despite Mohammad’s best efforts in claiming so. The refutation by G-d in the Tenach makes it abundantly clear to Abraham that His covenant only goes through his son, Isaac, birthed by his wife Sarah, thereby rendering all of Islam’s attempts at covenantal legitimacy to the land of Israel invalid.
Since then, we have been a people viewed through a lens of hatred, jealousy and defilement justifying our being the brunt of both an historical and the current, world-distilled nomenclature of horrific lies and pejoratives still used in massacring our people.
The mandate of following G-d’s Torah is not in any way easy. Though the world, living on the very edges of secular barbarity, seems to think it can judge us with impunity. That we are flawed does not mean that we have rejected striving to be what G-d demands of us.
We are only .02% of the world’s population yet we are irrationally blamed for all of its troubles. Israel continuing to exist in the midst of these uncivilized, Islamic nations is the unvarnished truth of where the center of civility really lives in the Middle East.
Yes, the Jewish homeland is definitely surrounded by backward savages who’re morally inferior, to say the least. And the worst of them are allowed to live within Israel’s borders. Not even hyenas could or would commit the atrocities the Psuedostinians did on October 7th. Hell, every islamic terrorist jihad group is more bestial than hyenas, and hyenas devour their prey alive.
Trump and Netanyahu just “annihilated” (Trump’s word) the most dangerous threat to Israel, the mullahs of Iran. The mop up operations are well underway after the morning’s great task but minor job.
I don’t know about you but I could use a celebratory beer.
Sanity has left the majority of minds throughout the world when a person or group can declare they wish all unlike them to submit or die. That should initiate a response on a global scale.
Special Forces teams from various nations would enter a lottery to see who gets to wipe out the fools who belong to a sect that condones “the nihilistic ferality of sheer brutes, to run amok in the civilized world.”
The project of extending the territory of contemporary Israel to include all of Biblical Israel/Judea/Samaria/Gaza/Transjordan, however this is defined can be morally good work. Israel’s practical hegemony over the region would promote moderation and modernization in all the surrounding countries. It might ultimately lead to a more moderate Islam, facing the fact that it cannot under any circumstances eliminate the Jewish state (though Islam has a very long memory).
The catch is that it can only establish that with unquestionable power, which that small country, despite its technical prowess, can’t exert by itself. It must have the full backing of the U.S. which is politically uncertain for this extensive an expansion.
There is no such project and islam can’t be reformed, only inevitably expunged like the overwhelming and innumerable former religions in the world, nearly all long forgotten.
Wrong again stupid…
Baal worship still exists with the fake god allah… a new name for a old fake god…
And… Baal worship goes back to the days of the Tower of Babel with Nimrod…
Q: I would like to know what you’re doing to “expunge” satanic islam? Please do tell…
Israel should only expand to defensible borders, as it lacks both the manpower and logistical resources to indefinitely sustain control of an Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates River. Even could it do so, Islam would remain Islam, which is incapable of either internal or external reform. If Israel were to wipe out Iran’s monstrous theocracy, Islam would simply find & employ another proxy agent.
Israel and more broadly, the West, have yet to figure out how to deter Islamic terrorist attacks. Deterrence of jihadist attacks first requires that Israel recognize that Islam itself is the source of the murderous hostility toward Israel.
Deterrence is achieved by attaching what for the enemy are unimaginable and certain consequences. Jihadist recruitment is deterred by removing the incentive of entrance into ‘paradise’ for martyrdom. That is done by rendering the jihadist “unclean”. Allah has proclaimed in his ‘sacred’ Qur’an that any Muslim who, at the time of their death is in an ‘unclean’ state, can NEVER enter paradise. Contact with any part of a pig instantly confers uncleanliness upon a Muslim. Wound and kill active jihadists with bullets fired out of firearms cleaned with gun oil that contains pig fat. Start publicly executing convicted terrorists in an unmistakably ‘unclean’ manner. No paradise for them. Remove the incentive.
Publicize that fact to impress upon jihadists that paradise is no longer certain. Recruitment will plummet. Jihadists are recruited by fundamentalist Imams and Mullahs. Threaten their status by announcing a policy that every terrorist attack will result in the destruction of an Islamic ‘holy’ site. No attacks = no loss of holy sites. Responsibility for the loss, rests upon the heads of the fundamentalists.
Declare that the day that Israel suffers an attack with a weapon of mass destruction will be the day that Mecca ceases to exist. Islamists won’t risk the destruction of their ‘holiest’ site, one that obligates every Muslim to make pilgrimage to at least once in their life. The means to deter Islamist terror attacks has always been available. Its the will to fight fire with fire that has been lacking.
God gave that land to Israel. They are bound to manage it properly. God did not give that land to the Arabs. They would always be feuding over it and it would never become governed properly because the Arab identity carried into the modern world is the Bedouin lore of “I am against my brother, my brother and I are against my cousin, my cousin and I are against the stranger.”
However, they could and can unify against the Jews, for which Islam supplied a ready-made template: “Kill them wherever you find them”, “drive them out from where they drove you out’. Israel must keep the land that God gave them to the fullest extent of its borders.
Israel, and everyone else, must understand what God gave is immutable. If the Arabs took that land back they would only ruin it with tribal feuding and turn it into a curse.
Israel’s God is real. Islam’s is a fraud. Which culture should control the land the great I AM promised to the descendants of Abraham?
Good argument. Reminds me of the advanced civilization of Ancient Rome in conflict with barbarian tribes on its borders,
Yes, the only difference is that the Roman Empire was the largest and most powerful on Earth. Lefty claims that the Persian Empire was larger are BS. Most of what was considered that Empire consisted of self governing domains, many or most of which (I forget) didn’t even pay tribute to the Persians.
Barbarians are always problematic, apparently. The islamopithecines are no different The main difference I can see is that Rome didn’t actively build up it barbarian enemies or any others, unlike the West and the islamic lands. Hell, we’re even building them up within our borders.
May I suggest to Mr. Hill that he submit this discourse onto the desks of world leaders for their consumption. The senseless support of radical rogue nations and two-state solutions in Israel has got to end. Jihad will never work in a civilized world. Must the Jewish people endure another 1400 years of hate and hostility? They need worldwide support.