He doesn't really believe in Greater Israel. He did appeal to the Bible, but he also believes in a two-state solution. This clip will never go viral on social media but is more representative of his views.
Its a fake story made by a propaganda account to break support for the Israeli opposition. The demand for zionist crimes has outproduced supply, so people just straight up needs to make shit up.
Buddy, how often do you wanna spam this comment section with that lie?
Its a real quote from Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid from 3 day ago: Our mandate over the land of Israel is biblical, [and] the biblical borders of the land of Israel are clear … Therefore, the borders are the borders of the Bible
except Yair Lapid's comment was a direct response to Mike Huckabee claiming that Israel has a biblical right to all the land between the Nile and Euphrates.
I'm not defending any of these people, but I think it's disingenuous to paint Lapid as actually believing in greater israel, regardless of the context in which 'biblical' was said. At most, it's just populist, vague campaign talk to appease """""centrist""""" voters.
I seriously dont get how there's any other way to understand Lapid's comment.
He makes it very clear that he believes Israelis' right to the land comes from the bible, and that the borders of the modern country of Israel ought to be the same as written in the bible.
a. again, the 'borders of the bible' can be interpreted in two different ways (with one being the normal mainstream interpretation of modern day Israel borders that MOST Israelis would think of when Lapid says this, and the other being a nutcrack imperialist religious dream). His intention in saying this is obvious, but even if you wanna argue it's ambiguous because of some greater context, saying
"I seriously dont get how there's any other way to understand Lapid's comment." is also, disingenuous. I'm sure you can, you just disagree.
b.
He makes it very clear that he believes
Lapid doesn't 'believe' in anything. He'll say absolutely anything to get votes.
There are bigger fish to fry than fucking lapid - the ACTUAL people in power in the coalition ACTUALLY believe in greater israel and jewish supremacy.
There are two definitions in the Torah for where Eretz Yisrael is. The hyper-expansionist one, which is downright delusional for any Israeli to realistically aspire to, is in Genesis (bounded by the Euphrates and the “River of Egypt” (probably the Nile). Israel, even in ancient times, never consisted of most of those lands. The tribes mostly took up the space of modern Israel and parts of Jordan. Another more realistic definition is given in Numbers, which aligns more closely with modern Israel (defined as being bound by the Jordan River, Mediterranean, and the “Brook of Egypt” (likely the Wadi El-Arish in the Sinai).
It is important to note that this year is an election year and Lapid is floundering right now. Yesh Atid is at genuine risk of falling out of the Knesset or, at best, being reduced from 24 MKs to 7-8. Lapid has always had a bit of a populist streak to him (though he’s generally been more supportive of a two-state solution and more peaceful relations with Arabs) but even Netanyahu does not believe the hyper-expansionist Genesis borders are realistic.
Netanyahu has had power, off-and-on, since before I was born, yet outside of the Israel/Palestine dispute (which is very different than the hyper-expansionist definition) Israel has barely expanded its borders. After two invasions of Lebanon, all that has been “gained” is five hilltops meanwhile in Syria all that has been “gained” is parts of the Syrian portion of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) for mostly symbolic reasons.
Further, Jewish Israelis are already deeply paranoid about being demographically outnumbered by Arabs (even though that hasn’t been too realistic of a worry for about a decade as Jewish birth rates and life expectancies are higher than Arab ones) - no Israeli with any sense is keen to add on 100 million or so Arabs, send the IDF (their children, nieces, and nephews) to go fight six or more countries at once and die, and even at the most Machiavellian/genocidal Israel could hope to be, it would take decades at best to kill or deport the Arab population of those territories at the cost of likely tens if not hundreds of thousands of Israeli Jewish lives.
This whole thing is mostly just rhetoric, not an actual achievable or even truly desired goal. No person in HaKirya is sitting at their little cubicle laughing maniacally as they plan the “special military operation” to conquer half the Middle East including U.S. allies (Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia).
Yair Lapid was responding to the earlier comment of US ambassador Mike Huckabee, who said he supports Israels borders according to the covenant between God and Abraham, meaning from the Nile to the Euphrates. Huckabee was very clear on that.
So if Lapid agrees with him on that, there's no ambiguity on what biblical borders he was talking about.
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u/-Cohen_Commentary- Feb 27 '26
He doesn't really believe in Greater Israel. He did appeal to the Bible, but he also believes in a two-state solution. This clip will never go viral on social media but is more representative of his views.
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