azurnoir
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Wed May-21-08 06:00 PM
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as in Benny Morris? Benny Morris gives the following interpretation: The essence of the plan was the clearing of hostile and potentially hostile forces out of the interior of the territory of the prospective Jewish State, establishing territorial continuity between the major concentrations of Jewish population and securing the future State's borders before, and in anticipation of, the invasion . The Haganah regarded almost all the villages as actively or potentially hostile<1> constituted a strategic-doctrinal and carte blanche for expulsions by front, brigade, district and battalion commanders (who in each case argued military necessity) and it gave commanders, post facto, formal, persuasive cover for their actions.<2>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Dalet
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