Like any decent Hollywood script, the villain is introduced.

At once the Spirit sent him out into the wilderness, and he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him. Mark 1:12-13

Immediately after learning about his real father and his divinity, Jesus was beamed out to the desert to confront a Dr. Evil-esq villain. Mind you, Jesus (God) created this villain, and being omniscient and omnipotent, Jesus had the ability to fart the villain out of existence—certainly Jesus was powerful enough to somehow withstand the villain's devious powers of persuasion.

How about some of those lovely islands in the South Pacific, instead?

"I will establish your borders from the Red Seat to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the desert to the Euphrates River." Exodus 23:31

Based on the border's that God laid out, Israel should be quite a bit larger. Biblical scholars are befuddled about the divine creator of the universe's inability to block off a this relatively tiny plot of dirt for His chosen people.