🧩 BND Motif Index · M1483
Greater Israel
A state is said to pursue a grand plan to push its borders out over its neighbors' land, so each war, strike, demolition and settlement is read as one more step toward the map.
- 5claims filed under it
- 2left shows it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Settler colony
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (2 left-leaning, 1 center, 0 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- center
- crossover
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “All of this is in service of the Greater Israel Project, of their expansionist project” “By the way, I tell you the same thing about Lebanon.” “I want greater Israel, and I want all of my regional opponents destroyed.” “it was always about taking the land” “so that Israel could be the only regional superpower” “That's why they really wanted Bashar al-Assad to go” “The Israelis want domination in that region they want the greater Israel project” “to the point where Gaza is ours in the end” “to wipe Iran off the map and create a greater Israel.” “you guys always intended to steal that land to begin with”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 4
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
- 2026-11-11 “Israel wants to be the only regional superpower by destroying Iran.” 2
- 2026-11-06 “Israel is said to plan a new round of war on Iran aimed at its energy and civilian infrastructure, which critics call war crimes.” 1
- 2026-11-03 “Israeli ministers such as Smotrich are said to admit openly that they plan to annex Gaza and South Lebanon.” 1
- 2026-11-02 “Israel is pursuing an expansionist project known as the Greater Israel Project.” 2
Told on the right 0
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the right so far.
Told in the center 1
claims heard only on center or crossover shows
- 2026-11-03 “Since October 7, Israel has struck Iran, gone into Lebanon and expanded its control and occupation of Syria.” 1
M1483 · first seen 2026-11-02 · last 2026-10-22 · what this is · how the index works