Israel renews military attacks on Gaza
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Quoted from my OP: "Syria (Mt Hermon / Druze areas), and maybe even Lebanon"
Yes, the Egypt–Israel peace treaty of 1979.
No, saying that Israel wants to annex everything from the Nile to the Euphrates is stupider than batshit crazy. Anyone who thinks that Israel wants to control Cairo, Aleppo, Damascus, Amman, Najaf, and Karbala and the 10s of millions of Arab Muslims in those regions is willfully ignorant.
Israel doesn't even want to control Palestinians. They want to get rid of them. It's called ethnic cleansing and they've been doing it since 1948. Though to be fair they haven't managed to repeat their success of 1948 so far.
Greater Israel isn't a random conspiracy theory that someone pulled out of their ass. When you look at the fact that Israel has been constantly trying to expand since 1948 it doesn't sound any crazier than a bunch of Jews settling in Arab land only to violently displace the natives and using unconditional US support to wage constant war on their neighbors.
Read what I've said, consistently, since my first post.
Israel nationalists having expansionistic goals (specifically, southern Syria, Trans-Jordan, Sinai, etc.) is not a conspiracy theory.
I've also out that these are minority viewpoints and a very large chunk of Israeli society would even withdraw entirely from the West Bank.
"Greater Israel" meaning the Nile to the Euphrates, willfully ignorant and foolish conspiracy theory.
Then why is Israel still occupying the West Bank and Gaza? Why is Netanyahu still in power? It's irrelevant what 'society' would do if they don't do it. The only thing that matters is what is actually being done. Reality trumps wishful thinking.
That kind of argument can go both ways.
If Israel is seeking to control from the Nile to the Euphrates, why did it pull out of the Sinai in 1979? Why did Israel pull out of Lebanon in 2000? Why did Israel pull out of Gaza in the 1950s, destroy settlements and pull out again the 1980s and in 2005, etc.?
There are obviously many factors, but the prime one is lack of popular support from Israeli citizens to continue occupations.
Given the weight of the historical evidence, Israel has, on multiple occasions, ceded land for peace. It worked with Egypt and has held for more than 45 years.
I have never been able to understand why, when Israel's abuses in the West Bank are so flagrant and when troops of settlers are allowed to run amok on the Temple Mount, why do nutter conspiracy theorists start frothing at the mouth about Israeli plans to annex Cairo and Iraq.
It's crazy. It distracts from the real issues. I'm half inclined to label the worst of the conspiracy theorists as Zionist shills distracting from everything that actually matters.