Is a greater Israel part of invasion goal?

Geoffrey Godsell, Christian Science Monitor Service

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“Some analysis and the Begin government’s actions in Lebanon as only first steps toward a wider goal. All current evidence indicates that the men running Israel are outmaneuvering the United States in purposefully implementing their blueprint for a greater Israel in the Middle East… The Begin government has clearly spelled out — specifically or by implication — some of the main features of its blueprint for greater Israel. The operations in Lebanon are merely the first step. The overall features include: Destruction of both the military and political power of the hard core of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon. Annexation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip — or Judea and Samaria, as the Israelis call them — so there can be no question of a Palestinian state alongside Israel on the West Bank of the Jordan… Yuval Ne’eman, leader of the Tehiya Party with a seat in Begin’s Cabinet, spelled it out in the Aug. 1 Observer: ‘This war is in two parts: One is what is happening up there in Lebanon, and the other is to create a situation in which there would be practically nowhere, no place left, to create a Palestinian state other than in Jordan — where there is one already.’… Israel might conceivably act as midwife for a partition of Lebanon between Syria and Israel. In that case, the southern part of Lebanon might become an Israeli puppet Christian state, possibly under the presidency of right-wing Christian Phalangist leader Bashir Gemayel.”

Context added by this archive

A cabinet minister saying in print that one aim of the Lebanon war is to leave nowhere for a Palestinian state to be. The page it runs on is otherwise a lumberyard advertisement: Gross Lumber Company Hot Summer Specials, a grinning sun, and fencing clearance at $13.25.

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"Is a greater Israel part of invasion goal?," The Journal Herald, 13 August 1982. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1982-027. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1982-027

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