Validity of the "Greater Israel" Conspiracy Theory

“Greater Israel” Conspiracy Theory: Is It Just Greater Paranoia?
Man sees suspicious events around him constantly, he enjoys drama and mystery. This usually results in conspiracies and plots; these can sometimes be true, but often they are products of imagination and paranoia. One of the major conspiracy theories is about the Middle East and the claims about a “Greater Israel”. Marvin Zonis and Craig Joseph state in “Conspiracy Thinking in the Middle East” that Middle Easterners have more tendencies to believe in conspiracy theories than other people. Also, Daniel Pipes explains the conspiracy theory about Israel and its validity in his article “Greater Israel”. Although many people consider the greater Israel conspiracy theory to be accurate, after analyzing the motives, origins and proofs of the theory in the light of logic, the theory isn’t even close to be valid.
To fully comprehend the greater Israel conspiracy theory, one must know two things; first, the accurate definition of a conspiracy theory and second, the content of the greater Israel hypothesis. There are many variables of the definition of a conspiracy theory; in its broadest sense, it is “a belief that an unpleasant event or situation is the result of a secret plan made by powerful people” (“Conspiracy Theory”). Zonis and Joseph define it as “a pattern of explanatory reasoning about events and situations of personal, social, and historical significance in which a "conspiracy" is the dominant or operative actor”(443). Daniel Pipes in “The Conspiracy Theory” explains a conspiracy theory by referring to its reverse order in conventional thinking; the theory is set and then the data is arranged so that it would prove the theory. These definitions clearly affirm the “paranoia” and “imagination” parts of conspiratorial thinking; therefore, before evaluating the greater Israel paradigm, one must first accept that conspiracies are fundamentally based on suspicion and imagination.
The “Greater Israel”...