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Jewish state firmly sets its sights on ‘Greater Israel’  

Published : Tuesday, 7 January, 2025 at 12:00 AM  Count : 1069
Israel's continuous offensive targeting civilian constitutes total violation of human rights since the war began on October 7, 2023. Following the onslaught of the invasion by Israel, which was launched as retaliation for a swift attack by Hamas that killed at least 1139 Israelis and resulted in the capture of 200 civilians, Israel's war motives appear more aligned with a genocidal campaign rather than with the rescue of the hostages.

The Netanyahu government has been demonstrating atrocities that violate all kinds of International laws. Israel started to show outrageous and flagrant disregard to the lives of the people since the onset of the war. The demolition of al-Ahli Arab Hospital with air strikes on 17th October 2023, which killed at least 500 sick and wounded people along with those taking shelter after being forcibly displaced from their homes, drew world attention with international condemnation. However, these types of offensives have been carried out since then. For more than one year, Israel has been committing grave war crimes seemingly with the complicity of the international community.

According to a report by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, more than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army including around 45,000 recorded by the Gaza Ministry of Health. Most appalling is the sight of more than ten thousand bodies lying under the rubbles and in the street unreachable by rescue and medical teams. An estimated 10 per cent of Gaza's population has been killed, injured, reported missing or detained as a result of Israeli military assaults.Israel has been conducting targeted killings of civilians in homes, shelters, hospitals, displacement camps, humanitarian declared zones and even at the waiting for aid at relief trucks. Civilians are being killed by shells, air and drone strikes. 

This persecution is not limited to the present scenario. This bloody suppression dates back nearly a century when Britain, during World War I, promised to establish a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine under the Balfour Declaration in 1917.  Large-scale Jewish migration to Palestine began. They with the help of British troops started persecution on the Palestinians. Between 1918 to 1947, Jewish population rose from 3 per cent to 33 percent. Zionist organizations fueled campaigns for a homeland for Jews in Palestine while the armed Zionist militias would continue to attack the Palestinians, forcing them to flee from their homeland. 

As the violation escalated, the newly formed United Nations called for partition of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states, where about 55 percent of the land was declared for Jews. Arabs were granted 45 percent of the land, while Jerusalem was declared a separate internationalized territory. But the Jews were not content with the partition and later they captured the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights during the Six-Day Warof 1967. 

A report in 2017 by the United Nation stated "Israel is currently proceeding with the plan to annex large chunks of Palestinian territory while keeping the Palestinian inhabitants in conditions of severe deprivation and isolation". This report now appears starkly relevant to the ongoing situation. However, the global community remains largely blinds to the massacre committed by in pursuit of its ambition to establish "Greater Israel".

The term "Greater Israel" refers to the biblical land of Israel, which extends from the Nile River to the Euphrates River. This interpretation is associated with religious Zionism and calls for the establishment of Jewish sovereignty over all of this territory. Israel's wide ranging destructive offensive in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, continued construction and expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, killing of some leaders of their opponents mark Israel's ambition of creating "Greater Israel". 
Recently, Israel targeted and killed leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah in efforts to weaken the organizational structure of its adversaries. They killed Ismail Haniyeh, a former Hamas leader, in Tehran in July 2024; YahyaSinwar, a Hamas leader, in Gaza in October 2024; and Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader, in Beirut in September 2024.

It is widely believed that Israel is actively involved in efforts to depose Bashar al-Assad from Syria, a long standing adversary of Israel. Israel has reportedly carried out more than 600 air strikes that effectively dismantled 90% of Syria's military capabilities. Israel ensured their freedom of action in Syria's skies for years to come so they destroyed all air defense systems. They made an incursion to establish a buffer zone between the Golan Heights and Syrian territory, seizing the highest and most strategic terrain on the Syrian border. This move has drawn criticism from the international community, who view it as a violation of Syrian sovereignty and a potential escalation of tensions in the region. Critics have linked this action to Israel's alleged ambition for a "Greater Israel".
Is the world going to see bloody war and torment on the Muslim community residing in the regions of Western Syria and Southern Turkey as the concept of Greater Israel also encompasses these region besides Palestine and Lebanon?  Many Zionists envision Greater Israel with the land from the Nile in the West to the Euphrates in the East comprising Palestine, Lebanon, Western Syria and Southern Turkey.Though this concept was first ignored by many. Even some political experts did not accept the concept as they do not get any official evidence to support its legitimacy. Israel'srecent actions such as land encroachment and settlement expansion in Gaza along with military incursion into Lebanon and Syria suggests otherwise. 

If "Greater Israel" is not strictly a Zionist agenda for the Middle East, many experts and academics argue that it aligns with US foreign policy aiming to extend US hegemony to the Middle East as well as fracturing and balkanizing the Middle East.

The writer is a banker


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