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On that day GOD made a covenant with Abram: “To your offspring I assign this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates—
Genesis.15.18
Regardless, the twelvers and their mullahs want nothing less than the destruction of any Jew who aspires to political self determination in the Land of Israel. This has nothing to do with any statement by smotrich. Strawman
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Yes, I know about that. But how can someone consider it a good thing? I can't understand it
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If they believe God has given them a right to that land then they believe they are entitled to it and that those people now living on and governing that land are inherently bad and standing in the way of Gods will.
Religion can make people crazy is the only way it makes sense to me.
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The 'Greater Israel' project proposes that military aggression is justified to achieve the allegedly God given boundaries of the state of Israel.
'Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has suggested that Israel is destined to expand to include Jordan, and even beyond, to parts of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and even Iraq.
In a documentary film by Arte in 2024, Smotrich said “it is written that the future of Jerusalem is to expand to Damascus.
This view has support in some parts of Israeli society. Israel’s incursions into Jordan and Syria has intensified international concerns that some actors in Israel are pursuing expansion into other countries...
In August 2025, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with Israeli TV channel i24News that he was on a "historic and spiritual mission" and that he is "very" attached to the vision of Greater Israel, which includes Palestinian areas and possibly also places that are part of Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Israel