Daniel Levy

First of all, unusually, Israel does not have defined borders.

It has peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan.

So those borders are actually defined, the Egyptian and the Jordanian border with Israel.

But when it comes to Syria, for instance, Israel annexed illegally Syrian territory after the 1973 war, after the 67 war, later on it annexed the Golan.

So that border is in dispute with Lebanon.

Israel is right now, as people will know, deep inside Lebanese territory.

But it normally focuses on greater Israel.

So that's everything that is recognized as Israel today, plus the West Bank, plus Gaza.

But greater Israel means different things to different people.

So right from the early days of the Zionist project, there were those who said, well, if we're going to Zion, then this is the biblical land of Israel.

So that stretches from, you may have heard the term, the Nile to the Euphrates.

Not only does that cover all of Israeli and what putatively has been designated as a Palestinian state territory, but parts of present day Egypt, Jordan, Syria.

Sometimes you'll have Israeli leaders saying,

we can extend even further.

But from the early days of the Zionist movement, there was a part of that, the revisionist Zionist movement.

And in fact, their slogan was both banks of the Jordan.

So that includes all of modern-day Jordan.

The creation of Israel derived from a UN partition plan.

We're in an era of decolonization.

This is the late 1940s.