“All because they couldn’t just leave Israel alone.”
Damascus, January 23 – Regimes hostile the the Jewish State who, along with their supporters, have spent decades screeching that the Zionists plan to take over the region in its entirety, have maintained policies and rhetoric that ensure such an outcome remains the only choice for the Jewish State to ensure its security, analysts say.
Anti-Israel propagandists have long touted a never-adopted Biblical vision of expansive borders for the Nation of Israel as representing the true Israeli agenda, despite repeated assurances from the pre-state Zionist leadership and successive Israeli governments since 1948 that Israel seeks to dwell in peace with its neighbors, and has no conquest ambitions – and despite relinquishing conquered territory in the interest of peace. Those propagandists, and, more importantly, the enemy states that have vowed Israel’s destruction, continue to foment violence, both direct and indirect, against Israel, to the point that if matter continue this way, the unavoidable consequences will in fact include Israeli conquest of much more territory to eliminate the perpetual threats.
“The irony is that for most of the despots in the region, Israel isn’t an actual foe,” remarked New York Times columnist Tom Friedman. “The regimes feel a need to talk up the external enemy, both for purposes of internal unity and to distract from their own failings. Some, such as Iran, go so far as to attack Israel, either itself or through proxy terrorist groups, and those ongoing attacks have the opposite effect of the ‘resistance’ they tout so much: sooner or later, and at this point probably sooner, Israel will be forced to neutralize its enemies as far afield as the propagandists’ imagined maximalist borders for the Zionist enterprise, bringing that vision to fruition.”
“All because they couldn’t just leave Israel alone.”
The process began in the 1930’s with Zionist leadership accepting multiple partition plans that aimed to create a Jewish state alongside a new Arab one; the Arabs rejected each offer. When Israel declared statehood in 1948, its neighbors attacked; the fledgling Israel secured territory for itself in substantial excess of any of the proposals. Attacks from neighbors continued over the next decades.
In 1967, Egypt blocked Israel’s access to the Indian Ocean, an act of war, and both Syria and Jordan joined Nasser in threatening Israel’s annihilation. The resulting six-day war featured such a lopsided victory that Israel emerged with territorial gains on every front: the Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula, Golan Heights, and West Bank of the Jordan River, including the parts of Jerusalem that Jordan occupied in 1948.
Over the last year-plus, Israel has reoccupied parts of the Gaza Strip to neutralize Iran’s proxy Hamas; taken over portions of southern Lebanon to create a buffer zone with Iran’s proxy Hezbollah; and expanded its control of land in Syria, also to create a buffer. Iran and its allies continue to threaten Israel, such that analysts predict those threats will result in a Greater Israel by the year 2045.
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