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Plan Dalet was a strategy paper of the Haganah, the largest Zionist paramilitary group, for assuming control of Palestine following the end of British control in 1948. Its implementation has become known among Palestinians as "Al-Nakba" the catastrophe.
Under the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine the territory of Palestine was to be divided into a Jewish state and an Arab state according to the majority population in each area.
According to part 4 of the plan, aims included:
So it appears that the intention of Plan Dalet was a deliberate grab of as much as possible of the territory and institutions alloted to the Arab state under the UN plan.
According to Israeli historian Ilan Pappe's book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Plan Dalet was "a blueprint for ethnic cleansing." Pappe states that the general section of the plan, which was distributed to politicians, was misguiding as to the real intentions of the Haganah. The real plan was handed down to the brigade commanders
Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian at Exeter University. He has written extensively on Zionism and Palestine. Here he lectures on Al-Nakba, the Catastrophe.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUDh-jTa3Go]Ilan Pappe on "The Nakba of Palestine" - YouTube[/ame][ame="http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUDh-jTa3Go"]http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUDh-jTa3Go[/ame]
Under the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine the territory of Palestine was to be divided into a Jewish state and an Arab state according to the majority population in each area.
According to part 4 of the plan, aims included:
Mounting operations against enemy population centers located inside or near our defensive system in order to prevent them from being used as bases by an active armed force. These operations can be divided into the following categories:
Destruction of villages (setting fire to, blowing up, and planting mines in the debris), especially those population centers which are difficult to control continuously.
Mounting search and control operations according to the following guidelines: encirclement of the village and conducting a search inside it. In the event of resistance, the armed force must be destroyed and the population must be expelled outside the borders of the state.
So it appears that the intention of Plan Dalet was a deliberate grab of as much as possible of the territory and institutions alloted to the Arab state under the UN plan.
According to Israeli historian Ilan Pappe's book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Plan Dalet was "a blueprint for ethnic cleansing." Pappe states that the general section of the plan, which was distributed to politicians, was misguiding as to the real intentions of the Haganah. The real plan was handed down to the brigade commanders
"not as vague guidelines, but as clear-cut operational orders for action"..... "each brigade commander received a list of the villages or neighborhoods that had to be occupied, destroyed, and their inhabitants expelled".
Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian at Exeter University. He has written extensively on Zionism and Palestine. Here he lectures on Al-Nakba, the Catastrophe.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUDh-jTa3Go]Ilan Pappe on "The Nakba of Palestine" - YouTube[/ame][ame="http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUDh-jTa3Go"]http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUDh-jTa3Go[/ame]
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