Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a televised interview with Israel’s i24NEWS on 12 August that he regards himself as being on a “historic and spiritual mission” and feels “very” attached to the vision of a “Greater Israel.” According to the broadcast and follow-up reporting by Israeli and regional media, the concept extends Israel’s borders beyond internationally recognised lines to encompass the occupied Palestinian territories and parts of Jordan, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon. Netanyahu’s remarks mark one of his most explicit public endorsements of an expansionist ideology long associated with Israel’s hard-right. The idea of Greater Israel emerged after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and has periodically surfaced in political discourse but has rarely been embraced so openly by a sitting Israeli leader. The comments drew swift regional condemnation. Jordan’s Foreign Ministry on 13 August called the statement a “dangerous provocation” that violates international law and threatens regional stability, urging the international community to intervene. The Arab League issued a separate communiqué the same day, describing Netanyahu’s words as a direct affront to the sovereignty of neighbouring Arab states and a grave threat to collective Arab security. Netanyahu did not announce concrete policy measures during the interview, but his phrasing that he is on a “mission of generations” and his invocation of biblical claims have heightened concerns that Israel could formalise annexation plans in the occupied West Bank or pursue broader territorial claims. No immediate response was issued by the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office after the Arab statements.