"Is Lebanon part of Israel's promised territory?" asked Mark Fish at The Jerusalem Post last month. In the quickly deleted article, Fish suggested that the land promised to the "children of Israel" in the Torah includes not only modern-day Israel but also the West Bank, Gaza and parts of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey. Critics have pointed to the article as further evidence of "expansionist ambitions in the region" among a right-wing movement in Israel, said Middle East Monitor. 

What is Greater Israel? 
"Greater Israel" has "come to mean very different things to different groups," said Adrian Stein at The Times of Israel. In Israel and the diaspora today, the term is generally understood to mean "extending Israel's sovereignty to the West Bank" and, in some interpretations, previously occupied territories in the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. But for some, Greater Israel means "exactly what is described in the Bible, which is to say, from the 'Euphrates to the Nile,'" a swath of land "greatly exceeding the existing State of Israel in size and area." 

The movement's supporters
The concept of Greater Israel has long appealed to both "religious and secular right-wing nationalists" in Israel, said The Guardian. The Nation State of the Jewish People law, passed in 2018, explicitly includes the West Bank, referred to as Judea and Samaria, among the territories to which the Jewish people have an "exclusive and inalienable right." More recently, Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich suggested the country would gradually extend control over parts of Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. 

Implications for the West Bank
At least 700,000 Israeli settlers live in unauthorized settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank "intended for a future Palestinian state as per the internationally supported two-state-solution," said Middle East Monitor. These settlements are illegal under international law and violate multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions. But, emboldened by the vision of Greater Israel endorsed by Benjamin Netanyahu's government, "radical Jewish settlers and their far-right political backers, who have ascended to the highest levels of Israel's government, are redrawing the map in real-time," said The Washington Post.

The former president believes raising tariffs on imports — 60% on goods from China and up to 20% for everybody else — would allow the U.S. to "steal" manufacturing jobs that have gone overseas, said NPR. Trump frequently invokes former President William McKinley, said Yahoo Finance. "In the 1890s, our country was probably the wealthiest it ever was because it was a system of tariffs," Trump said in Michigan. 

Historians, however, note that tariffs largely went out of fashion for a century after McKinley's presidency. The tolls were "increasingly seen by the public as raising prices," said Yahoo. One tariff historian said McKinley's economic governance is now widely seen as a "cautionary tale."

Counter to 'traditional economic orthodoxy'
Those views "reflect traditional economic orthodoxy, not reality," John Paulson, a Trump adviser, said at The Wall Street Journal. Tariffs would "stimulate job growth and increase revenues" without raising taxes on Americans, which, in turn, would cut the deficit and reduce inflation. 

Among economists, there's widespread skepticism about tariffs. "Ignore the word 'tariff' — Trump is pitching higher taxes," Allison Morrow said at CNN. Many experts see tariffs as an "inefficient, unfair tax on poorer people" who spend a greater portion of their income on imported goods. "Study after study" has demonstrated that the Chinese tariffs Trump imposed in his first term were borne and paid almost entirely by American consumers, said Morrow.

Considering the benefits
Tariffs are Trump's "most misunderstood policy proposal," Oren Cass, the chief economist at conservative think tank American Compass, said at The Atlantic. The economists who criticize the idea "consider only the costs of tariffs and not the benefits." Tariffs would encourage consumers to buy from a company that "pays American taxes and supports American families in American communities," he said. 

Some of those same companies might also suffer. Trump's tariffs could trigger a trade war — retaliatory tariffs from other countries — that would result in "diminishing sales for U.S. exporters," said ABC News.