Kuala Lampur, Sept. 3 -- There's a banner hanging from a building in Jerusalem's Old City that reads like a punchline nobody laughed at: Make Gaza Jewish Again. A gag sign if it weren't nailed to a very real project of bombs, checkpoints, bulldozers, and a government that's not even pretending anymore. Weeks later Netanyahu goes on TV, puffed-up and glowing, and says he's on a "historic and spiritual mission." Not to save lives. Not to end wars. To build "Greater Israel." Imagine a realtor with God on retainer and a map the size of the Mediterranean, scribbling in new borders like a bored kid with crayons.

The idea is simple enough: take what you can, call it yours, and when people complain, sell them a story about how you're just "comin...