Israeli expansion dreams are “from the Nile River to the Euphrates River” – Fatah official
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 2, 2026]
At a session of the UN Security Council in 1990, PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat claimed that the Israeli 10 agorot coin carries a map of "Greater Israel" that represents Israel's plan for expansion into surrounding Arab states. But the Israeli coin design does not include a map. The shape is a replica of a coin issued by the last Jewish Hasmonean king of Judea, Mattathias Antigonus, in the 1st century BCE.