Joe, the Eretz Israel as The Greater Israel and beyond (no limit, actually) has been the foundation of Zionism from day one. To colonize the Middle East in its entirety and more. It is not true that the founding fathers did not have in mind total conquest. They did. Theodor Herzl: “ Our first object is, as I said before, supremacy, assured to us by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.” (The Jewish State). The GLOBE.
Chaim Weizmann, the mastermind behind the whole project of Palestine' colonization and swindling Britain into obedience:
1937, Peel Commission
“A time will come when there shall be neither enemies nor frontiers,
when war shall be no more, and men will be secure in the dignity of
man. Then Eretz Israel will be ours.
I told the Commission: God has promised Eretz Israel to the Jews.
This is our Charter."
Ben Gurion:
“We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there, and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai.”
David Ben-Gurion May 1948, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, a Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.
“The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan. One does not demand from anybody to give up his vision. We shall accept a state in the boundaries fixed today — but the boundaries of Zionist aspirations are the concerns of the Jewish people and no external factor will be able to limit them.” P. 53, “The Birth of Israel, 1987” Simha Flapan
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Zionist greed has no limits. That is the essence of Zionism: as certain bourgeois supremacist Jews realized that the Gentiles will never let them reach the top of supremacy in the "white countries" and let them have a large piece of the colonial pie, they decided to grab their own piece "of the globe" to wage supremacy there.
