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To: Thomas M. who wrote (5040)	9/28/2001 12:35:46 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 23908

.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." In this case it was very clever of them to arrange for six Arab armies to invade the day the Mandate ended. Rather bolstered their case. And don't give us that hogwash about grabbing Palestinian land. The Arab High Committee stated their aims plainly -- to drive the Jews into the sea with a slaughter not seen since the Crusades. This was not a border dispute. 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." 1948 was late in the day for such 'provocation'. The Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al Husseini, ordered the massacrre of the Jews of Hebron in 1929! By 1948 the ex-Mufti was, shall we say, somewhat discredited, as he had spent the years of WWII in Berlin with his good buddy, Adolf Hitler.