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Tucker Carlson, who has defended Islam, Sharia law, Hamas and Hezbollah, flew into Israel for a few hours, only long enough to put out a fake claim that he was harassed by Israeli security (later disproven by video footage) and to berate Trump’s Ambassador Mike Huckabee with assorted Islamic propaganda, like his claim of a “Greater Israel”.
The former FOX News talking head, who now seems to spend much of his time in the Muslim world and spoke of buying a home in the terrorist state of Qatar, has spent the last few years bringing on increasingly disreputable figures like Soros-funded UN official Jeffrey Sachs, George Stephanopoulos’s sister, and John Mearsheimer to push this particular lie.
The premise of the lie is that Israel is starting wars to expand its territory across the Middle East.
Knowing that Ambassador Huckabee is an evangelical Christian who believes in the literal truth of scripture, Tucker challenged him over the ‘from the Nile to the Euphrates’ in Genesis 15:18 as his idea of ‘Greater Israel’. (Deuteronomy alternatively states that the borders will be “from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the river – the Euphrates – to the Western Sea.”)
Mainstream media talking heads asking religious people if they believe in the truth of biblical prophecies is an old cynical liberal media gotcha game. And Tucker was using it to prop up the Islamic ‘Big Lie’ that Israel was expanding when it’s actually been shrinking for 50 years.
It’s a matter of simple math.
Israel was at its largest size in the seventies when it controlled some 33,000 square miles: a territory around the size of South Carolina. As part of Carter’s 1978 Camp David peace accords, which Egypt has spent the last decade flagrantly violating, Israel turned over the Sinai, some 23,000 miles, a territory the size of West Virginia, leaving it with around 10,000 square miles.
That’s the size of Massachusetts.
(Egypt’s territory is over 380,000 square miles. And yet after losing several wars to Israel, it demanded massive territorial concessions from a country less than 3% its size.)
During Bill Clinton’s Oslo Accords, Israel directly turned over 1/10th of its remaining land, around 1,000 square miles, also known as ‘Area A’ to the control of the PLO, Area B, making up around 500 square miles, was to be under joint control, with further concessions expected as part of a final agreement. That shrank Israel down from Massachusetts to New Hampshire.
Meanwhile, Israel reached an agreement with Jordan that ceded yet more land as part of the ‘Island of Peace’ that was supposed to be under Jordanian sovereignty but with Israeli access.
(Jordan has a territory of over 34,000 square miles or over three times the size of Israel.)
In 1997, a Jordanian Muslim soldier opened fire on a group of seventh and eight grade Jewish girls touring the area, killing 7 and wounding 5. The terrorist is considered a hero in Jordan, with the majority of the Jordanian parliament calling for his release. He has been freed. Two years later, Jordan cut off the access of Israeli farmers to the land.
Meanwhile no final agreement was ever reached with the PLO because its leader Yasser Arafat and his Communist-trained successor Mahmoud Abbas broke up multiple negotiations efforts, and continued carrying out and funding terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians.
Still, Israel went on turning over territory to be occupied by the Islamic terrorists.
At the Wye River summit in 1999, Netanyahu agreed to turn over another 11% of Judea and Samaria while the Clinton administration demanded 13% in exchange for an end to terrorism. The withdrawal became much more limited when the Islamic terrorist attacks continued.
In response, Bill Clinton worked to bring down the Netanyahu government and replaced him with Prime Minister Ehud Barak, currently in disgrace over his ties to Clinton pal Jeffrey Epstein.
Barak agreed to a multi-stage handover of 18% of Judea and Samaria. That included a single handover of 400 kilometers.
At the Camp David summit in 2000, Barak, accepted the ‘Clinton Parameters’ for, in Bill Clinton’s words, “a Palestinian state in roughly 97 percent of the West Bank, counting the swap, and all of Gaza” along with the land swap that would annex Israeli communities in exchange for more land in Israel. Arafat rejected it and launched another war. Barak did go ahead with a ‘unilateral withdrawal’ from Lebanon that allowed Hezbollah to seize the formerly Christian country.
In 2003, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and later Prime Minister Ehud Olmert implemented a unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, violently expelling the Jewish population, and allowing Hamas to come to power. This added 141 square miles of Israeli land to the control of the terrorists.
By the time that Obama was elected, Israel had shrunk to 8,986 square miles or the size of New Jersey. More negotiations with John Kerry followed and so did more Islamic terrorism.
Since then, President Trump recognized Israeli control over the Golan Heights, around 400 square miles, and all of Jerusalem, another few dozen miles. This was land that Israel already controlled, but it at least validated that land as legitimately being a part of Israel.
Over the last 50 years, the amount of territory under Israeli control shrank from around 33,000 square miles to 10,000 square miles to around 9,000 square miles. It’s possible to dispute these exact numbers and decades have been spent debating exactly how to calculate them, but it’s indisputable that Israel has not only not been growing, but it’s been steadily shrinking down.
Over the last two generations, Israel made ‘peace’ deals with the PLO and Jordan that traded land for peace (without ever getting peace) and unilaterally withdrew from Gaza and Lebanon, turning over yet more land to Islamic terrorists, and certainly not getting peace out of it.
Not only isn’t Israel growing from the ‘from the Nile to the Euphrates’: it’s continually shrinking.
When Tucker Carlson claims that Israel is fighting Hamas in Gaza after the massacres of Oct 7 to create a ‘Greater Israel’, he’s ignoring the fact that Israel withdrew from Gaza in the first place. If its goal was to create a ‘Greater Israel’, it sure had a funny way of doing it.
But the purpose of a ‘Big Lie’ is to invert the truth. To swap perpetrators and victims, good and evil, and truth and lies. For the last 50 years, Israel’s territory shrank while that of the Muslim entities on and inside its borders has increased. Telling the truth about that would make it all too clear who is expanding, who is colonizing and who is really building a ‘Greater’ territorial entity.
‘Greater Israel’ is a lie put out by Muslim countries and their pawns to justify their invasion and colonization to create an ‘Ummah’, a Greater Islam, to dominate the entire Middle East.
And then the world.
The only part of the Middle East that is still not under the dominion of Islam, is Israel.
Anyone who talks to you about ‘Greater Israel’ is out to distract you from ‘Greater Islam’. And the intended boundaries of Greater Islam, as Islamic clerics and leaders have said over and over again, are the entire planet. It is in the name of this ‘Greater Islam’ that Europe and America have been flooded with Muslim mass migration just as Israel once was.
Europe, America and the West, like Israel, are becoming ‘lesser’, their lands bisected and segregated into ‘No-Go Zones’ where Islamic law and Islamic terror reign violence and death.
The Christian and Jewish realms have been steadily shrinking while Islam has been growing. And anyone who notices this is accused of ‘Islamophobia’, of plotting wars against Islam, rather than recognizing a war that has been going on for over 1,000 years.
“Is Islam really evil?” Tucker asked on a recent broadcast. “Or is that how they’re framed by the political elite to create perpetual wars.”
Who is fighting those perpetual wars? How did Constantinople become Istanbul? Why was Spain occupied by the Moors? What happened to the Christians of the Middle East? Where did Israel’s Muslim population come from? Where did London and New York’s Muslims come from?
Instead of asking about ‘Greater Israel’, what is the position of our leaders on ‘Greater Islam’?
Should have kept all that territory.
Indeed, it is only through the permanent loss of territory that they internalize their defeat. Just by dint of security requirements, Israel should permanently establish a buffer zone around Gaza, and permanently control the heights overlooking Lebanon and Syria.
More the point, when Israel gave the Sinai to Egypt, territory they were fully entitled to keep having taken it in a defensive war, it was already known there was a lot of oil and gas under the place.
Thanks Raymond !!!!!!!
“What is the position of our leaders on ‘Greater Islam’?”
They LOVE satanic islam !!!
Especially Sunni islam…
Which is why they’re attacking Shiite Iran… for the Sunni… NOT Israel…
…
We could easily go back to World War One… but all anyone has to do is go back as far as 911. The after effects of 911 has been muslim migration all over the west. And the leaders aren’t doing anything but helping satanic Sunni islam expand…
Balderdash! Iran has sponsored Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, and “Palestinian” terrorist groups murdering Israelis.
Iran’s nuclear weapon ambitions are real and existential.
This is why “leaders” are determined to stop them before Iran
blows you to kingdom come.
But, the Democrat Death Cult isn’t worried. They think Iran will
spare the marxists who support jihad against Republicans and Christians.
Google AI Reports:
“the United States has provided significant funding to Gaza, focusing on humanitarian aid and, more recently, reconstruction efforts. As of February 2026, the Trump administration announced a $10 billion U.S. contribution to a
Board of Peace aimed at rebuilding Gaza following a ceasefire. This is in addition to historic aid, including over $5.2 billion via USAID since 1994.”
…
Not only can we discuss what Hamas did with all that money…
Also… Trump stated clearly the he “Obliterated Iran’s nuke capabilities” back in July of 2025…
You’re falling for the MSM propaganda…
Hint: Google AI is a children’s website. Not a news source.
But since you think everyone is stupid because (shock of shocks) no one agrees with you and you get enough downvotes to sink an Iranian drone aircraft carrier.
Did you hang that funhouse mirror up yet?
BTW, went to church last night and I will today as well. We said the Nicene Creed, sung the Lord’s Prayer, did communion, sang a few hymns and did the other stuff that we do each weekend. And there’s not a damn thing can do about it except bitch, whine and wring your hands. I think you need a fainting couch because you are such a neurotic little girly man. So F.U.
How’s that “very elect” title God dumped on you? Enjoy your Sunni/Shia obsessions, your endtimes/anti-christ obsession, and your newly found Trump hatred.
They don’t care. All they want is that 10 seconds of power and will do anything to set the table so it happens. slimes are their brownshirts. We’ve all seen Bernie step down at his presidential rallies for the DEI crowd.
These people are nothing like you. Barely able to frame their MO.
The threshing has begun, The separating the wheat from the chaff is not as much GOD ALMIGHTY but our own mindsets.
These parasitic mindsets are deadheading to the antichrist along with the deep state which includes demoncRats, RINOs and apparently most of media be it entertainment or so called news. It seems that Fox news must have seen this is Fucker Qatarlson and dumped his ass. Frankly, why anyone pays attention to this satanic antisemit TC is beyond me. Ignore them and they lose their audience. Israel is more resolved and emboldened and proving to themselves they are the Chosen by YHVH. Don’t blame Israel and the Semitic/Hebrew/Jewish folks. It is what it is and no human bullshit will change this.
Shabbat Shalom and Namaste
To think that at one time I had a good opinion about Tucker Carlson. No longer, he has gone over the deep.
Mr. Greenfield focuses on the changing borders of Israel’s political map, but the Greater Israel project (which not all Jews accept) has nothing to do with Israel’s changing borders since 1948.
Greater Israel is founded in scripture and is embraced by Christian Zionists (of which Mike “it would be fine if they took it all” Huckabee is obviously one) and some Jews (whose numbers I do not know). Genesis 15:18 is the foundation of the Greater Israel Project. It is also subject to interpretation, and must be considered with like passages like Ex. 23: 31; Deut. 1: 7-8, 11: 24; Josh. 1: 4. Some say Solomon reigned over the Royal Grant / Greater Israel in 1 Ki. 4: 21 and 2 Chron. 9: 26 when Israel’s political map was at its largest.
And the Greater Israel people must also deal with passages like Josh. 21: 43 which clearly states all promises made to the House of Israel, INCLUDING the entirety of the land, were fulfilled.
Greater Israel is the aspiration of some and is consistent with Israel’s constant wars with her neighbors. It would be in Israel’s interest to deny this aspiration, even while some Israelis openly advocate for it.
You are 100 percent incorrect … Israel’s leaders over the past 80 years have been overwhelmingly secular — totally irreligious — and have never tried to advance a “Greater Israel” agenda … Instead, they have foolishly pursued a “land for peace” agenda — with disastrous results …
Thank you for your reply. I am sure that what you say is not without truth, nevertheless the G. I. project has supporters, both religious and irreligious, and Mike Huckabee is one of them.
Do you believe the irreligious would scrupulously avoid using scripture to justify their ambitions? Do you believe nuclear-armed Israel has no ambitions to increase her borders beyond the 1948 grant? The very existence of Israel, and its continued existence, is grounded in the LORD, whether or not Israelis believe. Atheists are at times very adept and twisting the scriptures to advance their agenda.
If Greater Israel isn’t defined by borders, then what in the world is it defined by?
Where is this ‘Greater Israel’ project if Israel’s leaders have kept giving up territory?
Scripture and prophecy envisions all sorts of things happening in the End of Days. I have no intention of arguing with the Bible on the subject. But End of Days events don’t reflect current realities. And conflating the two seems to be the kind of game that liberals play against religious people.
“is consistent with Israel’s constant wars with her neighbors”
Which neighbors? Which wars has Israel fought with Greece? How many times has Israel invaded Cyprus?
There’s a pattern over those “wars” and those “neighbors” and a pattern. The pattern is Islam.
The only way to push nonsensical arguments like Greater Israel is by ignoring what Islam is.
Islamic apologists spread arguments blaming everyone, America, the West, Israel for Islamic Jihads except Islam.
That’s where absurdities like Greater Israel come from.
DG: If Greater Israel isn’t defined by borders, then what in the world is it defined by?
KH: Israel’s borders constantly change, but Israel continues to exist. Israel’s political map therefore does not and cannot define her. She has withstood constant expulsions and landlessness that would have destroyed any other people. She is both supernatural and natural beyond all expectation. The LORD alone defines Israel and her continued existence, for better or for worse.
DG: Where is this ‘Greater Israel’ project if Israel’s leaders have kept giving up territory?
KH: Why do you link an aspiration with loss of territory? One can still want what one does not have or what one has lost. Bibi does:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-says-hes-on-a-historic-and-spiritual-mission-endorses-vision-of-greater-israel/
DG: Scripture and prophecy envisions all sorts of things happening in the End of Days. I have no intention of arguing with the Bible on the subject. But End of Days events don’t reflect current realities. And conflating the two seems to be the kind of game that liberals play against religious people.
KH: Agreed. Eschatology is very difficult. One certainty is Israel will continue to exist to the end of time. Christian Dispensational eschatology is hateful to Israel because it denies her only means of salvation –the Good News of her Messiah. It can never be good to reject the LORD’s only salvation.
DG: “is consistent with Israel’s constant wars with her neighbors”
Which neighbors?
KH: Lebanon is being attacked by Israel right now. I hope we do not join in.
DG: There’s a pattern over those “wars” and those “neighbors” …. The pattern is Islam.
That’s where absurdities like Greater Israel come from.
KH: Islam knows and hates the G.I. project, but it is not the sole catalyst. The main catalyst is Israel was given colonial lands without regard to impact upon the occupying peoples who lived there for thousands of years. The major players were Jewish Zionists and exhausted colonial powers weakened from two world wars. Islam was not much considered, nor did it have a big role, if any in Balfour.
If Israel’s leaders keep giving up territory, they clearly don’t aspire to more territory. No more than our leaders aspire to territorial expansion. Instead they’re losing what they had to begin with.
What they say matters much less than what they do.
There’s no “Greater Israel” project. There is a Greater Islam project.
Muslims are not attacking Israel because of some ‘Greater Israel’ nonsense but in the name of Greater Islam, just as they are attacking Russia, China, India, America, Europe and most of the world in the name of Greater Islam.
Any refusal to deal with that fact is national suicide.
I agree actions speak louder than words, but human desire / motivation is complex. Land for peace was likely a concession given in the interest of survival. The survival instinct is much stronger than the desire for peace.
Israel is nothing if not very clever, which cleverness has insured its survival. One who is very weak is without much choice in the realm of tactics, but cleverness remains no matter how vulnerable we become.
I agree with you that Muslims are motivated by jihad to bring the world under Islam – another name for empire (“empire” being the assertion of controlling power over other nations). Powerful nations tend to do this because the will to power is a human attribute. The motivation for domination is always religious. The question is not whether the motivation is religious but which religion “justifies” the action. Our nation’s controlling religion is definitely not Christian, but arises from a demonic secular humanistic liberalism, for which we deserve God’s wrath.
The Greater Israel project is a real thing. Whether it is good, reasonable, practical, likely, or universally recognized are issues not touching the reality that it exists and is a desire of many Jews. I am confuzzled by your continued denial of its existence, but my admiration of your thinking and work are undiminished (not that my opinion means much to you).
They need to take land every time there is terrorism against them. This foolish giving back land won in defensive wars just shows how many infiltrating communists there are and what powerful, necrotic malignancies they are, even in small numbers.
The biggest shrinkage of all, before Israel was founded, was slicing off Jordan to be “a homeland for West Palestinian Arabs”. Said Arabs decided that 75% wasn’t enough, they wanted it all because it was waqf land held by Sharia to belong to Islam in perpetuity as a result of the original Islamic conquest, hence the myth of the indigenous Palestinians whose land was stolen.
Ironically I had read some of Glubb Pasha’s books before I knew anything about Israeli issues, and admired his books from a military point of view. Then I had to quickly cover my tracks when I found out the truth 🙂
Thank you, Daniel, for that superb 30,000 foot overview of the reality of an ever-shrinking Israel … I’ll be forwarding this column to every person I know, and perhaps even a few I don’t …
What on earth is Tucker Carlson smoking??? The bottom line is that every time — yes, EVERY time — Israel’s foolish, naive leaders have offered up land in exchange for some elusive “peace” it has blown up in their faces … There is not a single exception to this track record of miserable failure …
If Israel were led by courageous, visionary leaders, instead of myopic politicians trying to curry favor with international elites, they would have hung onto every square inch of land acquired in the 1967 Six Day War, and without apology … To use the Peanuts analogy, every Israeli PM is Charlie Brown trying to kick the ‘peace’ football, and their Arab neighbors are Lucy pulling it away at the last second …
What was Einstein’s definition of insanity … ??? Something about doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result …
Tucker is pushing Islamic propaganda. That’s why promotes Islamic, Muslim countries and Sharia law.
Things won’t get better in Israel or the US until the counter-revolutionaries lose their citizenship and the children are no longer propagandized with lies in school. You don’t let an infection fester, even sunlight helps. They need to learn to question and analyze for themselves the absurdities and evils of communism, like that it is identical to fascism and socialism and they only have a record of economic failure, corruption and political oppression and a republic is on the right where human beings have some say in government and people have freedom and economically thrive.
This, among many things, people on our side aren’t even in the ballpark on.
Tucker “Qatarlson” has apparently sold his soul to Allah (or Satan: “C’mon, c’mon, it’s either one or the other…”), but the final size of Israel will be what God has said it will be, when King Jesus rules from Jerusalem. “From the Euphrates to the Nile”. And it’s probably inevitable that some advanced Israeli Technology will be able to commandeer some incoming Islamic Missile and re-direct it to hit the Temple Mount, and blow that ugly “Dome of the Rock” and Al Aqsa mosque into dust.
“Greater Israel” will become a reality fairly soon. “Greater Israel” is the plan and program of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob for His Chosen people, and what He says, goes.
‘Soon and very soon’.
Maranatha, come lord Jesus ………….>
Rev. Roy…….<
The bible declares that one day in the future Israel’s borders will be about 2X the size of it is currently. This is going to happen. And the bible says Jesus as the Messiah of Israel will be recognized by Israel one day and He will reign in Jerusalem as King of Kings and all men and women will bow down to him–including all Islamists, globalists and communists who sought to destroy Israel. This is going to happen.
Looking forward to it.
Israel was easier to defend, before the Quisling left betrayed and purposely weakened Israel. They are committed to its destruction. A land with so much connection to the holocaust should have at best a few citizens who want to destroy their own country. Hubris thinking they will survive once the trench they dug into the damn causes it to break. Why are there so many?
“They are digging tunnels” says Candace and these tunnels of the mind link up directly with Hamas which might have links with your local mosque. Given the dawah coming out of Candace I wouldn’t be surprised if she goes full revert at some stage. It’s really a much better fit for her.