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The 'Greater Israel' project proposes that military aggression is justified to achieve the allegedly God given boundaries of the state of Israel.
'Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has suggested that Israel is destined to expand to include Jordan, and even beyond, to parts of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and even Iraq.
In a documentary film by Arte in 2024, Smotrich said “it is written that the future of Jerusalem is to expand to Damascus.
This view has support in some parts of Israeli society. Israel’s incursions into Jordan and Syria has intensified international concerns that some actors in Israel are pursuing expansion into other countries...
In August 2025, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with Israeli TV channel i24News that he was on a "historic and spiritual mission" and that he is "very" attached to the vision of Greater Israel, which includes Palestinian areas and possibly also places that are part of Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon.'
Moses spent 40 years in the wilderness. Jesus spent 40 days in the desert. Were they abandoned by God?
No. They were being forged and reformed. Strength, be it physical, mental, or spiritual, does not emerge from nothingness. It is grown by resistance, and the repetition in trying to overcome it. It is birthed in the juxtaposition of one’s will against one’s reality, in the friction between being and becoming.
The descent into the underworld is not a detour, it is an essential part of the process. It is the burning away of the overgrowth and the debris; the unmasking and falling away of the untrue, the excess, the parts of you that are unworthy of the journey. It is the germination phase of the seed planted within you - cold, dark, and lonely, but essential, nevertheless.