Daniel Levy

He represents there a brand of dispensationalist evangelical Zionism.

Let's not, though, let everyone else off the hook because no US administration really ever clamped down on the settlements or held Israel to account for expanding into additional Palestinian territory in that way.

Can I move to that world?

What's important to understand when one zooms out beyond Israel's relentless displacement of Palestinians, seizing of Palestinian land, everything that we see, is to understand the Greater Israel Project first.

from an additional angle, because we've been focused on the territorial dimension.

But there's another way of understanding Greater Israel, and that I think is most relevant in the context of bringing the US into this war against Iran and wanting it to continue, which Israel very transparently wants to be the case.

And that is thinking about where Israel can project power.

Thinking of Israel as trying to maximally dominate

this region of the world.

And to do that, Israel needs to have an Iran that is domesticated, ideally a collapsing chaotic state.

And if, by the way, in the process of doing that, some of the Gulf states

are exposed as more vulnerable, which is exactly what was predictable and what has happened, then the Israeli hope is they will move more into Israel's orbit.

Trump spoke about this the other day and said they should join the Abraham Accords.

Spoiler alert, Saudi and the others aren't about to do that.

But if you can demonstrate that because you can bring American power uniquely into the equation and use that power, that you are the unassailable military hegemon

then you begin to assert a greater Israel dominion in a different way.

Netanyahu talks about this.

He talks about the answer to Hormuz building pipelines to Israel's Mediterranean ports.

So he openly teases out this idea in many of his statements and actions.

Personally, I think that's overreach.