Mythological King David's Kingdom at the time of his death

Greater Israel (also Complete Land of Israel, Hebrew: ארץ ישראל השלמה‎, Eretz Yisrael Hashlemah^[1][2]) is a term that denotes Biblical boundaries of the Land of Israel. Image File history File links Davids-kingdom. ... Image File history File links Davids-kingdom. ... Hebrew redirects here. ... Kingdom of Israel: Early ancient historical Israel — land in pink is the approximate area under direct central royal administration during the United Monarchy. ...

Though the borders of Greater Israel are not clearly defined, many devout Jews (and Christians alike) draw such definition from Biblical sources, namely the book of Genesis, which describes God's covenant with Abraham: Genesis (Hebrew: ‎, Greek: Γένεσις, meaning birth, creation, cause, beginning, source or origin) is the first book of the Torah, the Tanakh, and the Old Testament. ... The angel prevents the sacrifice of Isaac (Rembrandt, 1634) Abraham (Hebrew: , Standard Avraham Ashkenazi Avrohom or Avruhom Tiberian  ; Arabic: ,  ; Geez: , ) is a figure in the Bible and Quran who is by believers regarded as the founding patriarch of the Israelites and of the Nabataean people in Jewish, Christian and...

On that day, God made a covenant with Abram, saying: "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt as far as the great river the Euphrates. The land of the Kenites, Kenizites, Kadmonites; the Chitties, Perizites, Refaim; the Emorites, Canaanites, Gigashites and Yevusites." - Genesis 15:18-21

In the above context, Greater Israel would comprise, roughly, all of modern-day Israel as well as the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, Jordan, and Lebanon, much of Syria, Iraq, and Kuwait, as well as parts of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey. Sites on the Golan in blue are Israeli settlement communities. ...

Present-day usages

Three divergent geopolitical and diplomatic conceptions of Greater Israel: ██ as claimed by Israeli conservatives██ as claimed by some Revisionist Zionist factions██ as alleged by Arab nationalist groups

In present-day discourse, the exact definition of Greater Israel is open to interpretation. According to Daniel Pipes there are three main usages of the term^[2]: Image File history File links Greater_Israels. ... Image File history File links Greater_Israels. ... Revisionist Zionism is a right wing tendency of the Zionist movement. ... Daniel Pipes Daniel Pipes, Ph. ...

1. According to some right-wing Israeli views, the term refers to a state of Israel (Hebrew: Medinat Yisra'el) established on the whole geographical region of Palestine (known in Hebrew as Eretz Yisra'el, distinct from the political entity Medinat Yisra'el), situated between the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, annexing both the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
2. According to some far-right Jewish Mandate (pre-modern State of Israel) groups, such as Betar and Irgun Zvai-Leumi that ceased to exist as political movements, it refers to the pre-1923 mandatory Palestine, i.e. both the historical region of Palestine and what was later Transjordan.
3. According to some Arab nationalists, Greater Israel refers to an extremist Zionist conspiracy to stretch the borders of the state of Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates according to the kingdom of David in the above mentioned verse from the Bible.

The term is not used in this sense in mainstream Israeli discourse, and nowadays no prominent Zionist or Israeli intellectual or political figure openly advocates pursuing such borders. Hebrew redirects here. ... Map of the British Mandate of Palestine. ... Political geography is a field of human geography that is concerned with politics. ... Composite satellite image of the Mediterranean Sea. ... Northern part of the Great Rift Valley as seen from space (NASA) The Jordan River Road sign The Jordan River (Hebrew: נהר הירדן nehar hayarden, Arabic: نهر الأردن nahr al-urdun) is a river in Southwest Asia flowing through the Great Rift Valley into the Dead Sea. ... Palestine and Transjordan were incorporated (under different legal and administrative arrangements) into the Mandate for Palestine issued by the League of Nations to Great Britain on 29 September, 1923. ... Betars emblem (semel) The Betar Movement (ביתר, also spelled Beitar) is a Revisionist Zionist youth movement founded in 1923 in Riga, Latvia, by Zeev Jabotinsky. ...   Irgun (ארגון), shorthand for Irgun Tsvai-Leumi (ארגון צבאי לאומי, also spelled Irgun Zvai-Leumi), Hebrew for Military-National Organization, was a Zionist rebel group that existed in the early 20th century. ... {{year nav|1939 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Map of the territory of the British Mandate of Palestine The Emirate of Transjordan was an autonomous political division of the British Mandate of Palestine, created as an administrative entity in April 1921 before the Mandate came into effect. ... A bilingual poster in Romanian and Hungarian promoting a film about Jewish settlement in Palestine, 1930s. ... The Nile (Arabic: ‎, translit: , Ancient Egyptian iteru, Coptic piaro or phiaro) is a major north-flowing river in Africa, generally regarded as the longest river, though not the most voluminous, in the world. ... Bold text For the song River Euphrates by the Pixies, see Surfer Rosa The Euphrates (IPA: /juːˈfreɪtiːz/; Greek: EuphrátÄ“s; Akkadian: Pu-rat-tu; Hebrew: פְּרָת PÄ•rāth; Syriac: Prâth; Arabic: الفرات Al-Furāt; Turkish: Fırat; Kurdish: فرهات, Firhat, Ferhat, Azeri: FÉ™rat) is the...

However, the term of "Greater Israel" in Israeli politics today refers at least to parts of the West Bank, the Golan Heights and the Gaza Strip. Sites on the Golan in blue are Israeli settlement communities. ...

The idea that "Greater Israel" includes parts of Egypt is based on the term "River of Egypt" (נהר מצרים nehar mitsrayim) used to determine the south-west border of "The Promised Land". Some interpretations see this term as a flowery reference to The Nile (otherwise called in the Hebrew Bible Yeor יאור). However others suggest that this is merely a synonym of the term "Brook of Egypt" (נחל מצרים nachal mitsrayim) as appears in the book of Joshua and according to which lies near the city of Gaza ("...Gaza with her towns and her villages unto the river of Egypt" Joshua 15:47, KJV translates "river" rather than "brook"). Therefore it is likely but not proven that the term refers to the river known today as Wadi El-Arish in north-east Sinai. For alternative meanings of Nile, see Nile (disambiguation) The Nile in Egypt Length 6 695 km Elevation of the source 1 134 m Average discharge 2 830 m³/s Area watershed 3 400 000 km² Origin Africa Mouth the Mediterranean Basin countries Uganda - Sudan - Egypt The Nile (Arabic: ا&#1604... According to the Bible, the Land of Israel (Hebrew: Eretz Yisrael) was promised to the descendants of Hebrew patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob by God, making it the Promised land. ... For alternative meanings of Nile, see Nile (disambiguation) The Nile (Arabic: النيل an-nÄ«l), in Africa, is one of the two longest rivers on Earth. ... The Brook of Egypt (identified with the Wady el-Arish) is a desert stream on the borders of Egypt. ... The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in both the Hebrew Tanakh and the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. ... Map of the Gaza Strip from The World Factbook. ... This page is about the version of the Bible; for the Harvey Danger album, see King James Version (album). ... El Arish (alternate spelling Al Arish) is an Egyptian city on the Mediterranean coast of the Sinai peninsula. ... Sinai Peninsula, Gulf of Suez (west), Gulf of Aqaba (east) from Space Shuttle STS-40 The Sinai Peninsula (in Arabic, Shibh Jazirat Sina) is a triangle-shaped peninsula lying between the Mediterranean Sea (to the north) and Red Sea (to the south). ...

See also

• Irredentism
• Kahanism
• Assyrian independence
• Greater Syria
• Greater Lebanon
• Greater Serbia
• Großdeutschland
• 10 Agorot controversy
• Levant
• Phoenicianism

irredentism is position advocating annexation of territories administered by another state on the grounds of common ethnicity and/or prior historical possession, actual or alleged. ... Speaking: US-born Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of the Kach party in the Knesset. ... Proposed State of Assyria The Flag of the Assyrian People. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The State of Greater Lebanon is the name of a territory that was created by France and is the precursor of modern Lebanon. ... Greater Serbia is a name for a Serbian nationalist concept. ... National assembly meeting in St. ... The Israeli 10 agorot coin A coin issued by Mattathias Antigonus in c. ... The Levant The Levant (IPA: /ləvænt/) is an imprecise geographical term historically referring to a large area in the Middle East south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea on the west, and by the northern Arabian Desert and Upper Mesopotamia to the east. ... A form of Lebanese nationalism based on emphasizing the pre-Arab and Phoenician origins of the Lebanese. ...

References

1. ^ Jerusalem Dispatch: Stripped, Yossi Klein Halevi, The New Republic, August 26 2005
2. ^ ^{a b} "Imperial Israel: The Nile-to-Euphrates Calumny", by Daniel Pipes (accessed 12 October, 2005)

Yossi Klein Halevi (1953-present) is an author, journalist and researcher of Israeli culture and society. ... For other uses, see the New Republic disambiguation page. ... Daniel Pipes Daniel Pipes, Ph. ... October 12 is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (286th in leap years). ...

External links

• For The Land and The Lord: The Range of Disagreement within Jewish Fundamentalism, by Ian Lustick, chapter V and chapter VII (accessed 12 October, 2005)