reply to post by St Udio
scary... and that type of Imperialism, Colonization is sure not a way to promote a peaceful existence with one's adjoining neighboring nations, eh?
So now you're basing your argument on a map, made by some religious Zionist??? That's your proof of a secret Zionist master plan.
It never ceases to amaze me how
thoroughly ignorant anti-Zionist are. You people can't even tell the difference between a secular Zionism,
which is just another nationalism, which, in any case, is moving into its
Post Zionism phase, and
religious Zionism, the ones the secularists tried to usurp when Herzl wrote up his Jewish State.
The secularists have no intention at all in expanding Israel beyond it's present borders. In fact, it is mainly the secularists - which is the
present government of Israel, and the government which founded the country (Labor, and Likud, Israel's two biggest parties, along with Kadima, are
made up of non-religious secularists, who in fact try hard to quell any religious political efforts), who are willing to give up Judea and Samaria to
the Palestinians for a state.
As for the other camp, the religious Zionists, who are indeed, good, law abiding, loving people, viciously misrepresented in Israel one way, and in
another (conflated with regular, secular zionists) way by the international press, these Zionists probably do have a belief that Israel will expand to
teh borders predicted by Ezekiel. From the Nile to Euphrates. Most would probably interpret it along the middle map, with greater Israel extending
from the East bank of the Nile through the Sinai Peninsula to the Euphrates river. I have never seen it represented, and indeed, knowing religious
Zionists, I have never heard anyone consider, taking the entire Arab peninsula.
The guy who made that final picture sure does have an ambitious plan for the middle East!
As far as I know, even though this is a religious belief of Jews, they are more than happy to have Judea and Samaria. Give them their ancient
homeland, the "Westbank" as it is politically termed by the media (a term taken from the jordanians, who occupied the land 'west' of the Jordan'
after the '48 war) and theyre happy.
Also, one more thought on the nile. The nile delta goes eastward towards the Sinaitic peninsula. In Exodus times (when the Torah was written) the Nile
went into the Sinai, via smaller rivulets and lakes. Thus, the actual boundaries of the Greater Israel, as I've read many Rabbis argue, would be the
whole Sinai Peninsula, Israel, Southern Lebanon, all of Jordan, and a small portion of south eastern Syria.
Anyways, If God will's it, it will happen. No need to get all worried about it. The Jewish "master plan" will always be contained by those two
rivers - the nile and the Euphrates.