This is how they think: A Jewish rabbi: Israel’s borders are from the Nile to the Euphrates, and the small number of Jews prevents its settlement.

In a statement that highlights the true thinking of religious Zionism and the extent of its extremism, the extremist Jewish rabbi, Eliezer Melamed, made shocking statements about Israel’s borders, saying that it should extend from the Nile River in Egypt to the Euphrates in Iraq.

“As long as there are not enough Jews in the Land of Israel, our enemies will continue to exist there”

 That’s how the extremist Israeli Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, began his weekly lesson with a number of his students, warning of Israel’s enemies, claiming that Israel’s borders are from the Nile River in Egypt to the Euphrates in Iraq and that only the area around the Jordan River was acquired, referring to the land of Palestine.

Melamed said: “There is not a sufficient number of Jews in the Land of Israel in general and in Judea and Samaria – the Hebrew name for the West Bank – in particular, as it was said in the Torah: And if you do not leave the inhabitants of the land in front of you, let it be that you leave them as slaves in your eyes so that they do not surround you in the land that you live in.”

He continued: “In other words, as long as there are not enough Jews to settle in the entire land length and breadth, so that no desolate places remain, God sees in the way of nature that the enemies will remain in the land.”

The ultra-Orthodox rabbi said that after the people of Israel multiply and become stronger physically and spiritually, the enemies will leave, and it is likely that there will be some of them who will join us. It is likely that there will be those who will fight and be defeated, and there will be those who will prefer emigration to another country.

The extremist rabbi claimed that the borders of the Land of Israel are from the Egyptian River to the Euphrates River, however in practice, when God commanded Israel to occupy and settle the land, He commanded to occupy only the western part of the Jordan River, because settlement in the land must be done according to the ability of the people of Israel. And since the number of the Israelites was not sufficient to populate all of the Land of Israel, we had to conquer the most sacred part, which is beyond the west of the Jordan.

He added that after the Jews multiply, they will be able to gradually expand towards east of Jordan and all the lands of the Promised Land.

He concluded his speech by saying: “Blessed are the Jews who chose to immigrate to the Land of Israel and settle in it. In them, vitality continues, they colonize the land and multiply, and they are the future of the entire nation.”