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To: TimF who wrote (4926)	9/27/2001 7:38:10 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Perhaps it was an unwritten intention many years ago?

To: TimF who wrote (4926)	9/28/2001 2:40:34 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Greater Israel - a goal established many decades ago: <<< For example, although the Jewish leadership headed by Ben-Gurion accepted the UN General Assembly decision of November 19, 1947, dividing Palestine into two states, Arab and Jewish (and an international area around Jerusalem), while Irgun (and a smaller and more extreme organization Lehi) rejected it, it turns out that what the Jewish leadership really wanted was "Greater Israel in Stages," or to put it accurately,"to establish a State with borders as broad as possible, and with as few Arabs as possible. To that end, the leaders believed that it was highly desirable to prevent the establishment of an Arab state within the borders of Western Palestine, despite the UN resolution calling for such co-existence." A secondary goal was to disguise this aim and present the war as a "no-choice defensive effort" so as "to gain the support of world public opinion." The long-standing attempts of the Jewish leadership to make an alliance with the Hashemite dynasty ruling, under British protection, in Transjordan (now Jordan), are correctly seen by Milstein as a result of a decision to attempt to conquer the entire Palestine. He even tries to ask whether this policy, called the "Jordanian option," did not provoke the leaders of the majority of the Palestinians, the Husseini family, and contribute "to 46 years of terrorist and anti-terrorist activities." Indeed, an important point emerging from The Rabin File is that Ben-Gurion, who wanted to conquer the entire Palestine, was more moderate than the Palmach commanders, Rabin's teachers, followers of Yitzhak Tabenkin, the leader of "Le'ahdut Ha'avoda," who, exactly like Jabotinsky and Begin, wanted also to conquer the "East Bank of the Jordan." Let me illustrate the point by quoting Tabenkin's famous speech, made in March 1944 during Palmach's formative years, in which he declared: "Our aim is the entire Land of Israel on both banks of the Jordan, whose borders are: from Lebanon to Sinai, from the desert to the sea. All this should become a Jewish state, dedicated to Jewish revival." >>> And this little nugget: <<< The IDF attempted in 1948 "to poison the water in Gaza," but the attempt failed. >>> geocities.com