Noel King

Whose plan is this within Israel?

Who says that?

Smotrich says, right to Damascus.

Okay, bit by bit, it is written that the future of Jerusalem is to expand to Damascus.

So, you've got a government that says, we want this.

It does make me wonder though, ordinary Israelis, people who live in Israel, is this something that they want, that they support?

The U.S.

has a tricky relationship with Israel right now, and we'll get into President Trump in just a second.

But before we get to him, are there Americans in leadership that are advocating for this?

Are there Americans that are saying, yes, let's have a bigger, a larger Israel, an Israel with a larger map?

There is a world in which the war in Iran ends today.

There's a world in which the war in Iran ended three weeks ago.

Yes.

Yeah, I'll go with you.

What we see is that the war in Iran is continuing, and we hear it's in part because Israel has aims in Iran, in Lebanon, that are preventing the end of this war.

How much of not ending the war on Israel's side has to do with the Greater Israel Project, with expanding the borders of Israel?

Yes, I wonder about the question of overreach because many of Israel's allies have become deeply frustrated with Israel in the past, you know, two and a half years.

We talked in the first half of the show about how President Trump apparently got into a fight with Benjamin Netanyahu on the phone.

And I wonder where this could lead if Netanyahu continues to push this agenda.

Could it lead to such alienation from Israel's allies that it ends up reducing Israel's power and influence because Israel is abandoned by its allies?