Greater Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with U.S. president Donald Trump at the White House in Washington DC, March 5, 2018. (Haim Zach/GPO)
Trump’s unfinished business for ‘Greater Israel’
From annexation to UNRWA, Trump’s Israel advisors should be taken at their word — and Democrats won’t stand in their way, says Lara Friedman.
By Jonathan Adler November 13, 2024
Opposition MKs holding Israeli flags during a discussion and vote on the government's judicial overhaul plans in the assembly hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Why Israel’s opposition won’t talk about the real goal of judicial overhaul
Government officials have explicitly said their legal reforms are about annexation. Opponents won't admit it because they share the same vision.
By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man February 21, 2023
Prime Minister Netanyahu attends a planting ceremony for the Jewish holiday of Tu B'Shevat in the West Bank settlement of Mevo'ot Yericho, February 10, 2020. (Haim Zach/GPO)
The empty promise of annexation
The 'Deal of the Century' was supposed to be Netanyahu's ticket to re-election and out of prison. That may no longer be enough.
By Meron Rapoport February 18, 2020
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Jewish men pray early in the morning on the hill overlooking Ofra in the Jewish settlement of Amona in the West Bank, December 18, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
There is no status quo, only Greater Israel
Netanyahu’s party and government are finally making explicit what has long been implied: rejecting the premise that the Palestinians will ever have a state of their own. Over the past few years, analysts have been using the term “creeping annexation” to describe Israel’s land grabbing, segregationist policies in the West Bank. But over the past…
By Edo Konrad January 3, 2018
Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian man following a house raid in the West Bank city of Hebron September 20, 2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
Israel’s top court rules human rights aren’t ‘controversial.’ What about the occupation?
As the pro-peace camp has shrunk into oblivion, human rights groups have become the only real anti-occupation force in Israel today. That has made them uncomfortably political. Israel’s High Court of Justice on Wednesday ruled that equality and human rights are not, or should not be, controversial in Israel. “[It is difficult to accept] the…
By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man September 14, 2017
Education Minister Naftali Bennett, MK David Bitan, Culture Minister Miri Regev and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend a Knesset plenum session, December 5, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Welcome to Netanyahu’s Westworld
Israelis have a choice: they can either oppose the occupation or watch the Right turn their country into a sadistic theme park. By Alon Mizrahi ‘Westworld’ is a new science fiction television show that revolves around a futuristic amusement park populated by androids. Westworld caters to high-paying guests who can do whatever they wish within…
By +972 Magazine December 11, 2016
Leader of national-religious Jewish Home party Naftali Bennett (photo: Yotam Ronen / Activestills.org)
What to expect from the Israeli Right after Protective Edge
Progressive forces in Israel need to be prepared: The Israeli Right has yet to exhaust all of its options for dealing with the Palestinians. The alternatives to Netanyahu’s status quo involve moves toward a Greater Israel and full segregation based on extreme nationalism and hatred. By Mati Shemoelof (translated by Rotem Nir) If there is one…
By Haokets September 5, 2014
Ultra-Orthodox protesting the opening of a parking lot in Jerusalem (photo: Oren Ziv/activestills.org)
On the rise of Jewish fundamentalism in Israel
By Shalom Boguslavsky Over the past decade or so, the religious Zionists and the ultra-Orthodox have joined forces to push for an Arab-free greater land of Israel. The racist ideas of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, once considered marginal, have gained new power as they are expressed by important ultra-Orthodox rabbis with wide authority in…
By +972 Magazine December 11, 2010
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