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The Arab reaction, and what it means.

Get ready for the rebirth of the PLO...

Historical and Investigative Research - 25 July 2006
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http://www.hirhome.com/israel/hezbollah5.htm
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In Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles detective Sherlock Holmes solves a mystery by noticing that a dog that should have barked, had not. Because Holmes is a memorable character, and because we need a catchy way to say that sometimes the key to solving a problem is negative evidence, we now have the colloquial English expression “the dog that didn’t bark.” It is especially useful here. If we are to place the present Israeli-Hezbollah conflict in its proper context, I think, we need to look at the dog that ain’t barking.

The Arab states are not calling for the destruction of Israel.

This is new. Unprecedented, in fact. Every time Israel has been at war, the Arab states have called for Israel’s complete annihilation.

Certainly, there have been variations in the colorfulness of Arab promises of genocide against the Jews. For example, Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League, promised right before the 1948 war that, “This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades.”[1] And right before the Six Day War of 1967, the Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser said, “We shall not enter Palestine [meaning Israel] with its soil covered in sand. We shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood.”[2] But such poetic variations do not affect the perfect stability of the goal sought by the Arab states since before 1947-48: the extermination of the Jews living in the Middle East.

One can see this reflected in the way the Arab ruling class uses the word ‘jihad’:

“In 1980, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia gave a clear definition: ‘What is meant by jihad is a united, comprehensive, integrated Arab-Islamic confrontation in which we place all our resources and our spiritual, cultural, political, material and military potential in a long and untiring ‘Holy War’ against Israel, of course, who else?’”[3]

You can see now why PLO-leader Yasser Arafat created a bit of a storm when he declared to his Muslim followers in 1994 -- the year that the Oslo ‘peace’ process was jump-started -- that the Oslo objective was in fact “a jihad. . .to liberate Jerusalem.”[4] But the Oslo process was not derailed. And neither was it derailed when Yasser Arafat’s right-hand man, Faisal Husseini, explained to his Arab audience in 2001 that the Oslo ‘peace’ process was really a “Trojan Horse” to destroy Israel.[5] I know that the PLO made many declarations to the Western press that sounded a different note, but what I quote above is what agrees with the PLO founding Charter, which states that the PLO means to exterminate the Jews.[6] Where it counts, the Arab ruling elites have been perfectly consistent.

So this is dramatic: Israel finds itself once again fighting an international war, but for the first time in history the Arab ruling elites are not calling for the destruction of Israel.

The most surprising statement has to be the one made by the Lebanese government. As shown in this series, the Lebanese Army fully supports Hezbollah, which makes sense because Hezbollah “now has 14 seats in Lebanon’s Parliament and, along with Amal, another Shiite party, controls about a third of the Cabinet.”[7] Moreover, Hezbollah is Syria’s pet and Syria owns Lebanon, so of course the Lebanese Army supports Hezbollah.[7a]

And yet on 13 July the New York Times reported the following:

“Fouad Siniora, Lebanon’s prime minister, sought to distance the government from the Hezbollah raid after an emergency cabinet meeting. He noted that the Lebanese government was ‘not aware of and does not take responsibility for, nor endorses what happened on the international border.’”[8]

Naturally, this is a phony. This is what the Hezbollized and Syrian-controlled Lebanese ‘government’ has to do in order to give US officials the diplomatic room they need to defend the Hezbollized and Syrian-controlled Lebanese government.

Two days later, the New York Times reported that

“Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia ‘do not look on Hezbollah as being a legitimate government entity.’”[9]

Two days after that, the Ottawa Citizen reported that,

“State-backed newspapers in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt have reiterated the government line that Hezbollah is guilty of ‘a miscalculation.’”[10]

And the New York Times again:

“Saudi Arabia, with Jordan, Egypt and several Persian Gulf states, chastised Hezbollah for ‘unexpected, inappropriate and irresponsible acts’ at an emergency Arab League summit meeting in Cairo on Saturday.”[11]

Naturally, this is very different from saying ‘we condemn the taking of innocent Jewish life.’ However, it is certainly the sort of thing you say in order to avoid saying ‘Death to Israel’ when you are called upon to say something in the middle of an Israeli-Hezbollah conflict. In previous wars, by contrast, the Arab countries have called for Israel’s destruction (and attempted it).

So why isn’t this dog barking? Very simple: if this dog barks, the Oslo ‘peace’ process is dead.

Israelis are being sold the argument that it is smart to give away the strategic high ground of the West Bank to the PLO, cleansed of its Jews, concentrating the Jewish population between the PLO-controlled hills and the Mediterranean sea (in a strip of land so narrow that you can jog across it at Tel-Aviv-Yafo, where half of all Israelis live). If the Arab patrons of the PLO should now publicly cheer the Hezbollah murders of innocent Jews, well, the above argument might become too much of a tough sell.

So the Arab states are trying to save the Oslo process, which is to say the evacuation of the Jews living in the West Bank.

And why are they? Because they believe the Oslo process is the best strategy to destroy Israel. As PLO official Faisal Husseini explained, the Oslo process is a “Trojan Horse”: you get the genocidal soldiers in, and then you kill the Jews. But this is delicate. If you move too fast you may provoke the Jews into self defense.

Why the Oslo process is so important
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In WWII, many Jews were killed where they lived, or else they died fighting the Nazis as members of the various resistance movements. But a great many Jews were first concentrated and controlled, and only then murdered. In order to weaken Jewish resistance to the process of concentration, the Nazi technicians promised the Jews that, though they would be partially enslaved, they would not be killed, and they appointed as leaders individual Jews who argued that the way to avoid the worst was to cooperate with Nazi demands. Little by little, the Jews were concentrated further and further, as liberties were progressively taken away, and finally they found themselves boarding trains to what they were told would be work camps -- the final stage in the process of concentration.[11a] Auschwitz survivor Shie [Shee-yeh] Gilbert, whom I have been interviewing for my work, and who will soon be publishing a book about his experiences, tells me that once on the train it was impossible to deny the truth, because the overcrowded and unventilated conditions were so appalling that they drove some ‘passengers’ mad. The weakest died en route. The reason the conditions in the train were so appalling is that, once in the train, it no longer mattered whether the Jews understood what was going to happen to them.

A similar process is at work today. The space in which the Israeli Jews live is being reduced further and further -- they are literally being concentrated. As in World War II, in order to weaken the resistance of the Jews to the process of concentration, they are being told that they will avoid the worst: they will not be exterminated. But in order to get that, it is explained to the Jews, they will have to cooperate with this ‘peace’ process in which they will make more and more concessions to people who, in fact, say that they wish to exterminate the Jews. As in World War II, many Jewish leaders answer to those who wish to destroy the Jewish people, and so they argue forcefully to ordinary Jews that the way to achieve peace is to cooperate with the antisemites.[11b] Little by little, the Jews are being cleansed from strategic territory indispensable to the security of Israel, and they are being concentrated further and further, even as their corrupt government restricts their liberty to protest that the Jewish state is being given to the Nazis.[12]

In other words, the Oslo ‘peace’ process -- which the US has masterminded and imposed on the Israelis [12a] -- is the German Nazi strategy of concentration as a prelude to genocide, but done at the state level: implode the borders of Israel, and you turn it into one great concentration camp, then into a death camp. For this to work, the Jews must be either duped or neutralized until after the point when resistance becomes futile. Should the Jews begin resisting earlier, the whole process might be spoiled. This is delicate.

The Gaza Disengagement proceeded well for the technicians. In the north, Hezbollah was quickly being armed to the teeth. Gaza was already entirely in the hands of the terrorists, and Egypt was in control of the Gaza-Egypt border.[13] If only the rabid genocidal dogs could be restrained a little longer… -- they were almost there. All that remained was to evacuate the Jews from the West Bank -- another territory that a Pentagon study determined was indispensable to Israeli survival [13a] -- and all the pieces would be in place. But, careful. The attack dogs, smelling an easy prey, might fail to control themselves, making a lot of trouble, for they might scare the Israelis a bit too much, forcing the Israeli government to retaliate. And then all those carefully laid plans might go up in smoke.

This sort of thing is always a danger for two main reasons. First, the rank and file of organizations such as Hamas, the PLO, and Hezbollah is composed of people who really, truly, thirst to bathe their own selves in Jewish blood and are hard to restrain. And second, because the officer class of the Israeli military is composed of people with all kinds of opinions, and many of them are patriots who will not go along with just any suicidal policy, even if the top echelons are pushing for it. Therefore, because the Israeli government will want to avoid a revolt in its military officer class, the crazy people at the bottom of genocidal organizations can force the Israeli government into retaliating even when the top layer of the Israeli leadership has been corrupted.

And this sort of thing has been a concern before. As discussed in the previous piece, in 1996 there was a big flare up with Hezbollah on the Lebanese border, and the US rushed to protect Hezbollah from the Israelis, eventually producing a cease-fire agreement that allowed Hezbollah to keep firing at the Israelis, and prevented the Israelis from crossing into Lebanon.[14] The reason the US rushed so quickly to produce this agreement is that many in the Israeli officer class wanted to go in and severely reduce Hezbollah. That would have been a huge setback to the preparations for genocide.

A 1996 article by the Irish Times, in the thick of things, narrated events like this:

“The United States was asked yesterday to intervene again to defuse mounting conflict between Israel and Hizbullah militants in southern Lebanon. The guerrilla movement fired some 20 Katyusha rockets on settlements in northern Israel late Saturday night and early yesterday.”[15]

Notice that though Hezbollah is publicly dedicated to the destruction of Israel via genocide, and though it had launched rockets on civilian settlements, the Irish Times did not call Hezbollah a terrorist movement but a “guerilla movement.” The Irish Times explained:

“In Israel there is growing dissatisfaction among senior army officers, who argue that the government’s policy of restraint has been interpreted by the Hizbullah as a sign of weakness, and that a major reprisal raid is needed to stem the attacks.”

The interpretation of the dissatisfied senior army officers of course made sense. A genocidal enemy does not attack less when you make concessions, because the genocidal enemy’s entire political goal is, precisely, your total destruction!

The next sentence in the Irish Times piece is revealing:

“But Mr Peres, so far, has preferred the diplomatic route, counting on the Americans to pressurise the Syrians into curbing Hizbullah activity.”

So when US officials rushed to produce the Orwellian ‘ceasefire’ agreement that explicitly allowed Hezbollah to go on firing at Israel, this was to protect Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who otherwise might have been forced by the dissatisfied senior Israeli officers to go after Hezbollah. This is something that Shimon Peres naturally did not want to do (go after Hezbollah), because Peres is the famous great architect of the Oslo process, the effort to bring the PLO -- an organization tracing its roots to Adolf Hitler’s Final Solution, and chartered to see it through [16] -- into the Jewish state. Moreover, Peres has pushed repeatedly for giving always more power to the PLO.

The current prime minister, Ehud Olmert, is cut from the Peres cloth, and as soon as he became Prime Minister the most urgent job of his administration became the cleansing of the Jews of the West Bank. If he waited at all, the growing violence in Post-Disengagement Gaza might act as an argument, in the minds of Israelis, against further cleansing of patriotic Jews from strategic ground subsequently yielded to antisemitic terrorists. That might begin to seem like a bad idea. So there was a short window of opportunity. But the deranged mob of Hamas and Hezbollah, it seems, got too crazy too fast, naturally because they sense the weakness in a Jewish state that rushes headlong to commit suicide (this is the inherent instability in the strategy: it tends to produce overconfidence in the overeager hounds of death). So the antisemites got too violent in the south, too quickly, and then also in the north, and what happened is that the Israeli officers who wanted to do something about all this naturally got the upper hand, forcing even Ehud Olmert’s administration to move against Hezbollah.

All those carefully laid plans…

So what the United States is doing with its hurried proposal for a NATO intervention is, once again, rushing in to save Hezbollah.[17] And Oslo. Because if this violence is not quickly stopped, ordinary Israelis may get too scared, and then they will cease all cooperation with the Oslo extermination process and take their government back into their own hands.

This is delicate!

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Now, look again at these two newspaper quotes (from above) concerning the Arab reaction to Hezbollah’s attack, and pay close attention to what the Arab elites are saying to Hezbollah.

“State-backed newspapers in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt have reiterated the government line that Hezbollah is guilty of ‘a miscalculation.’”[18]

Does it give you a chill?

A prediction
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Hamas and Hezbollah will be thoroughly demonized, but neither organization will be destroyed and if there is a NATO intervention it will protect Hezbollah, and the Hezbollification of Lebanon. The PLO will burnish its image as the ‘partner for peace’ by being on its ‘best’ behavior during this crisis, and if the Oslo process can be revived it will be, with the PLO but without Hamas (at least formally).

Get ready...for the rebirth of the PLO.

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in this series.

Israel at War -- An HIR Series

█ Who attacked Israel?

█ What is Hezbollah?

█ What caused this war?

█ Understanding the US position | 1

█ Understanding the US position | 2

█ The Arab reaction, and what it means

█ Who is killing Lebanese civilians? | 1

█ Who is killing Lebanese civilians? | 2

█ What is wrong with the media? | 1

█ What is wrong with the media? | 2

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Footnotes and Further Reading
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[1] Sachar, H. 1982. A history of Israel: From the rise of Zionism to our time. New York: Knopf. (p.333)

[2] “. . .Syria used the Golan Heights, which tower 3,000 feet above the Galilee, to shell Israeli farms and villages. Syria’s attacks grew more frequent in 1965 and 1966, while Nasser’s rhetoric became increasingly bellicose: ‘We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand,’ he said on March 8, 1965. ‘We shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood.’”

SOURCE: Sachar, H. 1982. A history of Israel: From the rise of Zionism to our time. New York: Knopf. (p.616)

[3] “A tape-recording has surfaced of PLO leader Yasser Arafat speaking to Moslem followers in a Johannesburg mosque. . .Mr Arafat was exhorting his followers to prosecute a ‘jihad. . .to liberate Jerusalem.’ Mr Arafat does not deny the tape’s authenticity, but now says he meant ‘jihad’ in a metaphorical sense. A verbal jihad. A jihad of ideas. Nothing to do with violence. Mr Arafat’s effrontery adds insult to injury. In 1980, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia gave a clear definition: ‘What is meant by jihad is a united, comprehensive, integrated Arab-Islamic confrontation in which we place all our resources and our spiritual, cultural, political, material and military potential in a long and untiring ‘Holy War’ against Israel, of course, who else?’ So even if Mr Arafat really did mean ‘jihad’ in this novel, non-violent sense, his legions of followers would not have picked up the sophisticated nuance. They would have taken it to mean that the peace process was just a stratagem: a Trojan Horse which should now be exploited with maximum violence. At best, Mr Arafat was irresponsible. At worst, deeply dishonest.”

SOURCE: Evening Standard (London) May 19, 1994; SECTION: Pg. 9; LENGTH: 907 words; HEADLINE: A NEW KIND OF JIHAD

[4] “A tape-recording has surfaced of PLO leader Yasser Arafat speaking to Moslem followers in a Johannesburg mosque. . .Mr Arafat was exhorting his followers to prosecute a ‘jihad. . .to liberate Jerusalem.’ Mr Arafat does not deny the tape’s authenticity, but now says he meant ‘jihad’ in a metaphorical sense. A verbal jihad. A jihad of ideas. Nothing to do with violence. Mr Arafat’s effrontery adds insult to injury. In 1980, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia gave a clear definition: ‘What is meant by jihad is a united, comprehensive, integrated Arab-Islamic confrontation in which we place all our resources and our spiritual, cultural, political, material and military potential in a long and untiring ‘Holy War’ against Israel, of course, who else?’ So even if Mr Arafat really did mean ‘jihad’ in this novel, non-violent sense, his legions of followers would not have picked up the sophisticated nuance. They would have taken it to mean that the peace process was just a stratagem: a Trojan Horse which should now be exploited with maximum violence. At best, Mr Arafat was irresponsible. At worst, deeply dishonest.”

SOURCE: Evening Standard (London) May 19, 1994; SECTION: Pg. 9; LENGTH: 907 words; HEADLINE: A NEW KIND OF JIHAD

[5] “...Faisal Husseini, the top PLO official in Jerusalem...[was] quoted as likening the Oslo accords to a ‘Trojan horse.’ ...the weekly Al-Arabi quotes Husseini as calling the Oslo accords ‘just a temporary procedure, or just a step towards something bigger…the liberation of all historical Palestine from the (Jordan) river to the (Mediterranean) sea, even if this means that the conflict will last for another thousand years or for many generations.’”

SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun, July 11, 2001 Wednesday, FINAL EDITION, Pg. 1A, 1574 words, Israelis taking darker view of Palestinian intentions; Many see existence of Jewish state at risk, Mark Matthews.

[6] The 1968 PLO Charter states the objectives of the PLO as follows. Article 9 says that “armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine.” That’s worth chewing on for a second, because the PLO could have written the same thing like this: “it is required that Palestine be liberated in the act of killing people.” Killing which people? This is relatively obvious. Article 15 of the PLO Charter states that it is “a national duty to repulse the Zionist imperialist invasion from the great Arab homeland and to purge the Zionist presence from Palestine,” and article 22 declares that “the liberation of Palestine will liquidate the Zionist and imperialist presence.” In other words, the PLO, which organization asserts that ‘Palestine’ may be ‘liberated’ only in the act of killing people, explains that its goal is purging and liquidating -- that is to say, exterminating -- “Zionists.”

SOURCE: The PLO Charter articles were translated by: The Associated Press, December 15, 1998, Tuesday, AM cycle, International News, 1070 words, Clinton meets with Netanyahu, Arafat, appeals for progress, By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent, EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip.

[7] Hezbollah's grip will be tough to break, St. Petersburg Times (Florida), July 14, 2006 Friday, 0 Edition, NATIONAL; Pg. 10A, 947 words, SUSAN TAYLOR MARTIN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT

[7a] "Who attacked Israel?: Hezbollah has a master"; Historical and Investigative Research; 21 July 2006; by Francisco Gil-White
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/hezbollah.htm

[8] Clashes Spread to Lebanon as Hezbollah Raids Israel, The New York Times, July 13, 2006 Thursday Correction Appended, Late Edition - Final, Section A; Column 6; Foreign Desk; TURMOIL IN THE MIDEAST: ESCALATION; Pg. 1, 1558 words, By GREG MYRE and STEVEN ERLANGER; Greg Myre reported from Jerusalem for this article, and Steven Erlanger from Gaza City. Hassan M. Fattah contributed reporting from Beirut, and Michael Slackman from Cairo., JERUSALEM, Thursday, July 13

[9] U.S., Needing Options, Finds Its Hands Tied, The New York Times, July 15, 2006 Saturday, Late Edition - Final, Section A; Column 3; Foreign Desk; TURMOIL IN THE MIDEAST: NEWS ANALYSIS; Pg. 1, 936 words, By HELENE COOPER; Mark Mazzetti contributed reporting from Washington for this article, and Jim Rutenberg from St. Petersburg, Russia., WASHINGTON, July 14

[10] Pro-western Arab states temper reaction: Jordan, Egypt, others risk domestic peace with mild comments, Ottawa Citizen, July 17, 2006 Monday, Final Edition, NEWS; Pg. A5, 364 words, Hugh Miles, The Daily Telegraph, CAIRO

[11] Militia Rebuked by Some Arab Countries, The New York Times, July 17, 2006 Monday, Late Edition - Final, Section A; Column 2; Foreign Desk; TURMOIL IN THE MIDEAST: THE ARABS; Pg. 1, 1027 words, By HASSAN M. FATTAH; Reporting for this article was contributed by Nazila Fathi from Tehran, Suha Maayeh from Amman, Jordan, Mona el-Naggar from Cairo and David E. Sanger from Vermont., BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 16

[11a] For a dramatic example of Jewish leaders collaborating with the Nazi effort to dupe innocent Jews so they can be easily exterminated, read:

"The responsibility of the mainstream (Labor Zionist) Israeli leaders during the Shoah ('Holocaust')"; from THE PROBLEM OF JEWISH SELF-DEFENSE: An HIR series; Historical and Investigative Research; 22 March 2006; by Francisco Gil-White
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/leaders4.htm

[11b] For dramatic examples of the collaboration of certain Jewish leaders with Nazi aims, read:

"The Crisis of 1933: In 1933, ordinary Jews all over the world banded together and came within an inch of destroying the Hitler regime. They did not fail. Their leaders failed them."; from THE PROBLEM OF JEWISH SELF-DEFENSE: An HIR series; Historical and Investigative Research; 22 March 2006; by Francisco Gil-White
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/leaders0.htm

"How the mainstream Jewish leadership failed the Jewish people in World War II"; from THE PROBLEM OF JEWISH SELF-DEFENSE: An HIR series; Historical and Investigative Research; 22 March 2006; by Francisco Gil-White
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/leaders1.htm

and

"The responsibility of the mainstream (Labor Zionist) Israeli leaders during the Shoah ('Holocaust')"; from THE PROBLEM OF JEWISH SELF-DEFENSE: An HIR series; Historical and Investigative Research; 22 March 2006; by Francisco Gil-White
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/leaders4.htm

For an analysis of how Jewish leaders today are repeating the pattern, read:

"How mainstream Diaspora Jewish leaders are failing the Jewish people today"; from THE PROBLEM OF JEWISH
SELF-DEFENSE: An HIR series; Historical and Investigative Research; 22 March 2006; by Francisco Gil-White
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/leaders2.htm

and

"What is the problem with the Israeli ruling elite? Is it stupidity? Or is it something else?"; from THE PROBLEM OF JEWISH SELF-DEFENSE: An HIR series; Historical and Investigative Research; 22 March 2006; by Francisco Gil-White
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/leaders3.htm

[12] Israel National Radio has been defending ordinary Israelis with the truth, and it has a big following, for precisely this reason, among ordinary Israelis. So the Israeli government has persecuted Israel National Radio and tried to shut them down. To read about this, visit:

“On the importance of Israel National Radio (Arutz Sheva)”; Historical and Investigative Research; 30 June 2006; by Francisco Gil-White.
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/inr_interview.htm

[12a] 1991 -- Bush Sr.'s administration forced Israel to participate in the Oslo process, which brought the PLO into the West Bank and Gaza; from "Is the US an ally of Israel? A chronological look at the evidence; Historical and Investigative Research; by Francisco Gil-White
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/hirally.htm

[13] See, in this series:

“WHAT CAUSED THIS WAR?: Triggers have causes, and causes have prior causes...”; Historical and Investigative Research; 23 July 2006; by Francisco Gil-White.
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/hezbollah3.htm

[13a] The following piece quotes the relevant portions of the Pentagon study and analyses it in its political context, with links to the original document (to go directly to the Pentagon study, see further below):

“1967 -- After the Six-Day War, the US put pressure on Israel to relinquish the territory gained, even though it knew it was indispensable to Israeli defense”; from “IS THE US AN ALLY OF ISRAEL: A Chronological look at the evidence”; Historical and Investigative Research; by Francisco Gil-White.
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/hirally.htm#1967b

< PENTAGON STUDY:

»» This Pentagon document was apparently declassified in 1979 but not published until 1984. It was published by the Journal of Palestine Studies:

"Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense"; Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2. (Winter, 1984), pp. 122-126.< This file is especially useful because it shows a map with the "minimum territory needed by Israel for defensive purposes"
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/pentagon.pdf

»» And by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs:
http://www.jinsa.org/articles/print.html?documentid=496

»» And as an appendix in:

Netanyahu, B. 2000. A durable peace: Israel and its place among the nations, 2 edition. New York: Warner Books. (APPENDIX: The Pentagon Plan, June 29, 1967; pp.433-437)

[8] Palestinians Use Tunnel To Attack Israeli Post; 2 Soldiers Killed, One Kidnapped in Raid at Gaza Border, The Washington Post, June 26, 2006 Monday, Final Edition, A Section; A16, 1188 words, Scott Wilson, Washington Post Foreign Service, JERUSALEM June 25

[14] “For 10 days, Warren Christopher, then the secretary of state, bounced between Damascus, Beirut and Jerusalem until he finally was able to get the 1996 cease-fire arrangement that restricted Israel and Hezbollah to fighting each other without terrorizing civilian populations.”

SOURCE: U.S., Needing Options, Finds Its Hands Tied, The New York Times, July 15, 2006 Saturday, Late Edition - Final, Section A; Column 3; Foreign Desk; TURMOIL IN THE MIDEAST: NEWS ANALYSIS; Pg. 1, 936 words, By HELENE COOPER; Mark Mazzetti contributed reporting from Washington for this article, and Jim Rutenberg from St. Petersburg, Russia., WASHINGTON, July 14

[15] US asked to act after Hizbullah fires rockets into north Israel, The Irish Times, April 1, 1996, CITY EDITION, WORLD NEWS; Pg. 13, 496 words, By PETER HIRSCHBERG, JERUSALEM

[16] The most complete documentation on this is here:

“HOW DID THE ‘PALESTINIAN MOVEMENT’ EMERGE? The British sponsored it. Then the German Nazis, and the US.”; Historical and Investigative Research; 13 June 2006; by Francisco Gil-White.
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/pal_mov4.htm

Some of this material was originally published here:

“Anti-Semitism, Misinformation, And The Whitewashing Of The Palestinian Leadership”; Israel National News; May 26, '03 / 24 Iyar 5763; by Francisco J. Gil-White
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=2405

[17] “UNDERSTANDING THE US POSITION: Why does the US propose a NATO intervention?”; Historical and Investigative Research; 24 July 2006; by Francisco Gil-White.
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/hezbollah4.htm

[18] Pro-western Arab states temper reaction: Jordan, Egypt, others risk domestic peace with mild comments, Ottawa Citizen, July 17, 2006 Monday, Final Edition, NEWS; Pg. A5, 364 words, Hugh Miles, The Daily Telegraph, CAIRO

[19] Militia Rebuked by Some Arab Countries, The New York Times, July 17, 2006 Monday, Late Edition - Final, Section A; Column 2; Foreign Desk; TURMOIL IN THE MIDEAST: THE ARABS; Pg. 1, 1027 words, By HASSAN M. FATTAH; Reporting for this article was contributed by Nazila Fathi from Tehran, Suha Maayeh from Amman, Jordan, Mona el-Naggar from Cairo and David E. Sanger from Vermont., BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 16

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ISRAEL
AT WAR

an HIR series

█ Who attacked Israel?

█ What is Hezbollah?

█ What caused this war?

█ Understanding the US position | 1

█ Understanding the US position | 2

█ The Arab reaction, and what it means

█ Who is killing Lebanese civilians? | 1

█ Who is killing Lebanese civilians? | 2

█ What is wrong with the media? | 1

█ What is wrong with the media? | 2


	Israelis are being sold the argument that it is smart to give away the strategic high ground of the West Bank to the PLO, cleansed of its Jews, concentrating the Jewish population between the PLO-controlled hills and the Mediterranean sea (in a strip of land so narrow that you can jog across it at Tel-Aviv- Yafo, where half of all Israelis live).

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What is Hezbollah?

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Why the Oslo process is so important _____________________________________

A prediction ____________

Why the Oslo process is so important
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A prediction
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