If Israel are now saying that the Bible sets their borders and “security zones” that will last forever, don’t call it talk - call it a map. Right, so Yair Lapid, the leader of Israel’s main opposition party in parliament, has gone into an interview and described the Bible as Israel’s ownership deed over the land, and then treated “biblical borders” as the reference point for where Israel can stretch when “security and policy and time” allow it. Meanwhile, Israel Katz, Israel’s defence minister, has gone to a military officers’ graduation ceremony and said the Israeli army will remain in a Gaza “security zone” forever, along with territory in both Lebanon and Syria, that is aside from the Golan Heights which they took years ago. Those aren’t two random lines. They’re two senior politicians, from two different lanes of Israeli power, taking the sam ...