I’m a brown Arab, and I’m telling you, the so-called “Greater Israel project” is a hoax. Israel has never sought to expand beyond defensible borders. If it hadn’t been attacked in 1948, no Arabs would have been displaced. If it hadn’t been attacked again in 1967, Israel wouldn’t have taken control of the West Bank or Gaza, even though the West Bank is historically Jewish land, known for centuries as Judea and Samaria. If Yasser Arafat hadn’t walked away from Camp David II in 2000, there would already be a Palestinian state. If terrorists hadn’t targeted Israeli civilians, there wouldn’t be a single checkpoint. And if, after Israel’s full withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, the Palestinian leadership had chosen to build a thriving, peaceful city instead of launching rockets, there would have been no wars from 2006 to 2023. Every war, every occupation, every checkpoint has been a response, not a pretext.