The post shares a 60-second clip from John Mearsheimer’s July 2025 interview with Tucker Carlson, where the University of Chicago professor explains that early Zionists, including David Ben-Gurion, envisioned a “Greater Israel” encompassing the West Bank, Gaza, southern Lebanon, southern Syria, and the Sinai Peninsula, far beyond the 1948 borders he describes as “postage stamp-sized.”
Mearsheimer cites Ben-Gurion’s 1918 Yiddish book, “Eretz Yisrael in the Past and Present,” co-authored with Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, which details historical Jewish claims to these expanded territories. Peer-reviewed analyses, such as those in the Journal of Palestine Studies, confirm this text as a foundational expression of maximalist Zionist territorial aspirations.