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Egypt's increasing violations of the terms of its peace treaty with Israel cannot be shrugged off

This promotes a sweeping conspiracy narrative that Israel seeks not merely territorial expansion but the erasure of Palestinian and ultimately all Arab geography, portraying Israeli policy as an existential threat to the entire Arab world. Researcher Dr. Tamara Haddad: "The problem in the Middle..."

Jamal Al-Amleh, advisor to the Land Research Center: "Annexation measures are being carried out on the ground while the Zionist leaders controlling this government — like [Israeli Finance Minister] Smotrich from ‘Religious Zionism,' [Israeli Minister of National Security] Ben Gvir from the 'Jewish..."

Fatah Advisory Council member Mazen Izz A-Din: "Now [Israel] openly demands what [former PA] President Yasser Arafat said: 'Brothers, look closely at the Israeli coin, from the Nile River to the Euphrates River. Israel wants your lands. It wants to expand.'" [Fatah-run Awdah TV, Facebook page, June...

No matter how many times and how many ways they say it, it doesn't make it any less false

Fatah US branch member Shahinaz Wafi: "There is a [territorial] expansion by Israel, which still adheres to the slogan: 'Israel's border is from the Euphrates River to the Nile River.'" [Official PA TV, Capital of Capitals, May 18, 2026]

Former Lebanese Minister of Public Works and Transportation Ghazi Aridi: "Matters will not remain within the borders of Palestine, this [Israeli] threat will reach all the Arab states… When they talk about 'Greater Israel,' to whom are their words directed? They say they want part of Lebanon's..."

Deputy Editor in Chief of the Egyptian state-owned paper Al-Gomhuria Safwat Imran: "The Zionist occupation (i.e., Israel) recently expressed [its vision of] the so-called 'Greater Israel,' which is not satisfied with swallowing Palestine and its actions within the Palestinian territories, but also..."

Egyptian international legal researcher Mohamed Mehran: "Israel has plans that it is implementing, and its goal is to take over more lands. We know that it has a religious plan which is to take over from the Nile River to the Euphrates River – the Greater Israel plan. The US largely supports this..."

PLO Central Council member and official PA daily columnist Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul: "Israel has reached a peak in realizing its choice and advancing towards its project… establishing the complete Israeli state within the borders of Palestine, as a preliminary stage for the establishment of Greater..."

Senior Fatah official Bassem Al-Tamimi: "This [Israeli] plan is not directed only against the Palestinian and the Palestinian territories alone. It is a plan against the Arab region in general to take control of it and even beyond taking control of it – to occupy it directly. The leaders of the..."

Fatah-run Awdah TV host: "From the first moment of the aggression against the one and unified Palestine (refers to Hamas' Oct. 7 war on Israel; see note below -Ed.), the occupation (i.e., Israel) reflected to the entire world that the main goal is not only the Palestinian land, but also the..."

Palestinian National Council member Imran Al-Khatib: "Israel wants to control the Middle East... and not only the Middle East but also Africa. This is the Israeli aspiration, which receives American support from [US President] Trump, who declared that Israel's territory is small and must expand so..."

Senior Fatah official Zuheir Al-Khatib: "Israelis... You destroyed the Arab homeland, annihilated its resources, killed the young, expelled the young, and replaced regimes in Arab countries. What more do you want? From the Nile River to the Euphrates River? You will not achieve that." [Official PA...

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "Part of the war taking place in Palestine and outside Palestine strives to grab the sources of power of the Islamic world, so that it will continue to lag behind and remain divided and weak, thus..."

Outrageous libel accuses Israel itself of orchestrating the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: Some people even speculate that Oct. 7 was an Israeli plot. Some say this, even in the Palestinian street. They say that Israel dragged Hamas and the Palestinian street into this bottomless abyss to...

The "Greater Israel plan" is a myth, but the missile and drone attacks from Iran's Lebanese proxy are all too real

Israeli Arab journalist Suheil Diab: "Hezbollah has entered a war of existence [with Israel], which is not only directed against Hezbollah as a political organization and a resistance organization, but rather is actually [directed against] the territorial integrity of Lebanon's territories to..."

The Iran war has nothing to do with the Palestinians, but some want to make it all about them.

Official PA TV reporter and political commentator Muhammad Nader Al-Omari: "On the strategic level, the Israeli perception of religious Zionism is the establishment of Greater Israel, which even includes the takeover of southern Turkey, according to the perception or according to the Zionist map..."

Commentator Fawzi Samhouri: "If [Israel] continues its aggressive wars not only in Palestine but also on our fronts in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and others, and also in Qatar, then what is undermining international security and peace is this Israeli colonialist entity… There is a former American..."

Palestinian economist Fadi Abu Bakr: "The US is giving Israel greater leeway than before in Palestine, in the West Bank, and in the [Middle East] region in general, and this explains the increase in hostile behavior and the expansionist ambitions of the Israeli occupation in the West Bank and the..."

Head of the Socialist Arab Lebanon Vanguard Party Hassan Bayan: "There is no point in distinguishing between right and left [in Israel]. They are all occupiers. Maybe they have right and left on the issues of their internal conflicts, but regarding the Palestinian people and regarding the Arab..."

Former Secretary-General of the Arab Lawyers Union Omar Zayn: "There are plots, there are plans that must be opposed because the Zionists are working to achieve the goal of Greater Israel… All of this is preparation for entry, in one way or another, into the Arab lands. They have said how they want..."