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Former U.S. Officials Name the Project

If you only follow the news, "Greater Israel" can sound like something said by anonymous accounts online. It is not. Men who served the American government, as a general, a Treasury official, an Army colonel, and a Marine officer, have said in public that America's wars in the Middle East, and the war with Iran in particular, are tied to it. They had no reason to invent this and a great deal to lose by saying it. This page collects what they said, in their own words, with dates and sources.

Evidence rating: CONFIRMED that these former officials made these statements; STRONG as a body of testimony that the Iran war is linked to a Greater Israel agenda.

The general who saw the list: Wesley Clark​

Retired General Wesley Clark, once NATO's supreme commander, has told the same story many times: that shortly after 9/11 an officer at the Pentagon showed him a memo describing a plan to "take out seven countries in five years ... finishing off, Iran" (Democracy Now, 2 March 2007). Iran was the last name on that list. Twenty-five years later, it is the country America is bombing. The full story, with every retelling, is in Pentagon Plan for Greater Israel's List of Wars and Wesley Clark's profile.

Clark was not the only one who saw it. The journalist Aaron Maté reported in January 2020 that "ex-Bush admin official Lawrence Wilkerson confirms that he saw that memo" (Aaron Maté on X, 13 January 2020). See Lawrence Wilkerson.

The Reagan Treasury official: Paul Craig Roberts​

Paul Craig Roberts served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Ronald Reagan. In a July 2024 video he tied the post-9/11 wars, and the pressure on Iran, directly to Greater Israel:

"Our Congress is full of madmen who want to attack Iran. There are many of them in both parties. They're speaking for Israel. ... So that was the reason for the 20 years of wars that the United States conducted in the Middle East. It was to get rid of Hezbollah's enablers so that Israel could take Southern Lebanon. They want the water resources. ... And they want the expansion because they still have this view of a 'Greater Israel' from the Nile to the Euphrates. That's the Zionist goal. ... Here in the United States, they all deny that there's any such 'Greater Israel' but there he was holding up the maps." (transcript posted by apocalypseos on X, 17 July 2024)

In April 2026, in the middle of the second Iran war, Middle East Monitor ran the headline "Former US official: Iran war is direct extension of 'Greater Israel' project." It reported that Roberts said the war against Iran "cannot be understood in isolation from what he described as a wider agenda linked to the so-called 'Greater Israel' project"; that "in his view, Israel has succeeded in pushing US President Donald Trump into confrontation with Iran, something it had failed to achieve with previous US presidents"; and that "most wars in the Middle East in the 21st century are fundamentally linked to this concept of 'Greater Israel'" (Middle East Monitor, 28 April 2026).

In September 2026 a clip of Roberts drew about 246,000 views; the poster summarized him as saying "The new maps claim land from the Nile to Pakistan" and that "Israeli ministers hold those maps up themselves" (Blunt on X, 9 September 2026, the poster's summary). For the maps Israeli leaders have actually shown, see Maps, Patches, and Symbols and Netanyahu's Maps at the United Nations.

The Army colonel: Douglas Macgregor​

Douglas Macgregor, a retired U.S. Army colonel, put the Iran link in one sentence. As quoted in a March 2026 post, he said in August 2025: "Without the complete defeat of Iran, the 'Greater Israel' project has no chance. Netanyahu understands this perfectly" (Paramjeet Singh Berwal on X, 5 March 2026). That is the whole argument of Why the Iran War Serves Greater Israel: Iran is the one regional power strong enough to stand in the way.

The Marine officer: Matthew Hoh​

Matthew Hoh, described by the interviewer Rick Sanchez as a former U.S. Marine Corps officer, spoke in July 2026 about the supporters of the Greater Israel project, calling their land claim "A gift given to them by a magical real estate agent in the sky 3,000 years ago." Sanchez's caption says Hoh explained "how declining Jewish immigration to Israel has made larger families central to the biblical goal of expanding the land from the Nile to the Euphrates" (Rick Sanchez on X, 1 July 2026; the quoted line is Hoh's, the rest is the caption).

Chas Freeman, and a senator's review​

Chas Freeman, in interviews with Glenn Diesen, said the "Greater Israel Project is collapsing" and that Iran is the reason, according to a June 2026 summary of those interviews (g-ew.com, 30 June 2026, secondhand).

A sitting senator has reportedly raised a related doubt about the official case. In July 2026 a widely shared post said Senator Mark Warner had reviewed the intelligence and found "absolutly no imminent danger" from Iran (Furkan Gözükara on X, 28 July 2026, the poster's summary). If there was no imminent danger, the question this investigation asks is what the war was for. See Intelligence vs. the Public Case.

Why their testimony matters​

Each of these men spent a career inside the institutions that plan and fight America's wars. They are not saying Americans should hate anyone. They are saying the American people were not told the real aim of the wars they paid for, and that the aim belongs to a foreign government's territorial project. Put their words next to the Israeli ministers' own statements in Netanyahu in His Own Words and the Israeli colonel's warning in Udi Evental's Warning, and the pattern is hard to miss. The next question is who will be sent to finish the job: see American Soldiers on the Ground in Iran.

Status: Wesley Clark, Lawrence Wilkerson, Paul Craig Roberts, Douglas Macgregor, Matthew Hoh, Chas Freeman, Mark Warner, Aaron Maté, Rick Sanchez, Glenn Diesen, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Donald Trump are alive. Nothing on this page states that any of them committed a crime.

Sources​

Research captures: twitter/t01__v003.md, twitter/t18__v214.md, twitter/t18__v216.md, twitter/t19__v223.md, twitter/t19__v228.md, twitter/t22__v256.md, twitter/t26__v312.md

Last Updated: 2026-09-26

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