1998 : “ISRAEL-PALESTINE : GLOBALISATION AND MICRONATIONALISMS” – THE ISSUE OF THE LAND

Excerpt from from René Berthier : "Israël-Palestine, Mondialisation et micro-nationalismes" (1998) – Éditions Acratie

Article mis en ligne le 9 octobre 2025
dernière modification le 18 octobre 2025

par Eric Vilain

Israel is undoubtedly the only country whose borders are not officially demarcated. Golda Meir, the former Prime Minister, said : “Our borders will be where we settle...”

When looking at a map the “Greater Israel”, we notice surprisingly that the country’s borders overflow onto Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Turkey. This is a unique case. One can easily imagine the upheaval that would be caused by a similar situation if any other country published even unofficial expressions of its territorial ambitions…

Let us remember that David Ben-Gurion declared in 1938 that “the frontiers of Zionist aspirations include South Lebanon, southern Syria, present-day Jordan, the entire West Bank, and the Sinai.”