This is apropos a letter to the Editor titled “Iran shattered the dream of ‘Greater Israel’” carried by the newspaper on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and yesterday.
Ironically, the very war designed to establish “Greater Israel” may now accelerate the opposite outcome. Instead of expanding Israeli influence from the Euphrates to the Nile, the conflict has exposed the limits of Israeli and American power.
The dream of uncontested territorial and military expansion has collided with the reality of regional resistance and shifting geopolitical dynamics. As a consequence, the future may increasingly move not toward a greater Israel, but toward an Israel forced back within more internationally recognized and defensible boundaries.
Equally significant is the perception that the United States itself no longer possesses unlimited willingness or capacity to impose Israeli strategic objectives across the region.
The costs of war, domestic political backlash, economic strain, and military overstretch have all weakened Washington’s appetite for open-ended confrontation. That realization alone changes the calculations of every regional power.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2026
The writer is a former Press Secretary to the President, An ex-Press Minister at Embassy of Pakistan to France, a former MD, SRBC Macomb, Detroit, Michigan