Anyone looking for clues to the ambitions of Israeli expansionism should read the Bible, Walid Jumblatt, the leader of the Druze in Lebanon, has told Middle East Eye.
With Israeli forces launching a new offensive in Gaza, and with their fellow soldiers deployed across the West Bank, southern Lebanon and Syria, Jumblatt warned that the prospect of a “greater Israel” inspired by biblical borders could not be disregarded.
“We used to say a long time ago that greater Israel stretches from the Nile to the Euphrates. It seems it’s being slowly but surely accomplished,” Jumblatt said.
The 75-year-old is a canny survivor of the complex political and diplomatic intrigues that have swirled over the region for decades, as well as of Lebanon’s long civil war during which Jumblatt rose to prominence after his father, Kamal Jumblatt, was assassinated in 1977.
Speaking at his home in Beirut as US President Donald Trump was touring the Gulf, Jumblatt said there was no one left to protect the Palestinians, either in the region or the rest of the world.
