How to prove Israel is not a settler colony even as it pursues 'Greater Israel'

Earlier this month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu openly endorsed the project of "Greater Israel", telling i24 News that he is on a "historic and spiritual mission" of territorial conquest.

This maximalist vision builds on the existing Greater Israel and its settler-colonial control of East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and now, once again, Gaza - where the government hopes it will soon re-establish itself.

It seeks to expand Jewish colonial settlement to encompass all of historic Palestine, allegedly once the exclusive home of the ancient Hebrews and promised by the Jewish God to the "Chosen People", along with parts of neighbouring Arab countries, including Jordan, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon.

Support for this ideology has surged amid Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza, with images circulating online of soldiers displaying a map of this new, much Greater Israel stitched onto their uniforms.

For its part, the Israeli government is moving quickly to entrench its sovereignty over all the land. This month, it announced successive approvals of both a plan to take over Gaza City and the E1 settlement project in the West Bank - a measure that would cut off Palestinian access to East Jerusalem and displace Bedouins in the area, and which senior officials declared was intended to "bury the idea of a Palestinian state" once and for all.

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