Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent: ANALYSIS / Israeli rejection of Gaza deal may topple Abbas
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Title:To everyone: fyi
Name:David R. Zukerman
City: BronxState: N.Y.
I realize the possibility that my references to 1948 and there being only one Arab-Israel war may have become tiresome.

Still, at pp. 1706-7 of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948, Volume V , we see that the US thought most of "Arab Palestine" should go to Transjordan (as Jordan was then called), and at p. 1704, the US K viewed as "threatening" Israel`s rejection of an armistic with Jordan,
Israel having "indicated that it must be either peace or war."

This US message containing instructions to James McDonald
continued: "If this threatening attitude should be confirmed, again this Govt would have no other course than to undertake a substantial review of its attitude toward Israel."


Now -- when do we begin to take instruction from history?