Plan Dalet

Plan Dalet , or Plan D , (in Hebrew , dalet is the fourth letter, similar to "d" in English), was a plan that the Haganah in Palestine worked out during autumn 1947 to spring 1948 . The purpose of the plan was, according to its Jewish planners, to defend the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. According to Palestinian sources it was a plan with the purpose of conquering as much of Palestine as possible (Plan Dalet: Master Plan for the Conquest of Palestine, Walid, Khalidi, for example). Plan Dalet was revised in December, after the 1947 UN Partition plan , and finalized on March 10th , 1948 . The first step of the plan was initiated in April when Operation Nachshon was launched, although documents state that action wasn't intended to be undertaken before the British had left (which they did not do before May 14th ): This plan rests on the general assumption that during its implementation, the forces of the British authorities will not be present in the country.

Plan Dalet , or Plan D , ( , Tokhnit dalet ) was a plan worked out by the Haganah , a Jewish paramilitary group and the forerunner of the Israel Defense Forces , in Palestine in autumn 1947 to spring 1948. Its purpose is much debated. According to Yoav Gelber and Benny Morris , it was a contingency plan for defending a nascent Jewish state from invasion. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine .

Plan Dalet ( , Tokhnit dalet ) was a plan worked out by the Haganah in Mandatory Palestine in March 1948. Its name was from the letter Dalet (ד), the fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet . Its purpose is much debated. The plan was a set of guidelines to take control of Mandatory Palestine, declare a Jewish state, and defend its borders and people, including the Jewish population outside of the borders, 'before, and in anticipation of' the invasion by regular Arab armies. According to the Israeli Yehoshafat Harkabi , "Plan Dalet" called for the conquest of Arab towns and villages inside and along the borders of the area allocated to the proposed Jewish State — according to the UN Partition Plan . In case of resistance, the population of conquered villages was to be expelled outside the borders of the Jewish state. If no resistance was met, the residents could stay put, under military rule. The intent of Plan Dalet is subject to much controversy, with historians on one side asserting that it was entirely defensive, while other historians assert that the plan aimed at the expulsion, sometimes called an ethnic cleansing , on the grounds that this was an integral part of a planned strategy. War in Palestine, 1948: strategy and diplomacy . Arab attitudes to Israel . Palestine, 1948: war, escape and the emergence of the Palestinian refugee problem . Ten years of research into the 1947-49 war - The expulsion of the Palestinians re-examined . There are <ref group=qt> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a template (see the help page ).

1948 military plan in Mandatory Palestine "Plan D" redirects here. Plan Dalet ( , Tokhnit dalet ' Plan D ') was a Zionist military plan executed in the civil war phase of the 1948 Palestine war for the conquest of territory in Mandatory Palestine in preparation for the establishment of a Jewish state. The plan was requested by the Jewish Agency leader David Ben-Gurion and developed by the Haganah and finalized March 10, 1948. The plan, requested by David Ben-Gurion who became Israel's first prime minister, was a set of guidelines to take control of Mandatory Palestine, declare a Jewish state, and defend its borders and people, including the Jewish population outside of the borders, "before, and in anticipation of" the invasion by regular Arab armies. According to the Israeli Yehoshafat Harkabi , Plan Dalet called for the conquest of Arab towns and villages inside and along the borders of the area allocated to the proposed Jewish State in the UN Partition Plan . In case of resistance, the population of conquered villages was to be expelled outside the borders of the Jewish state. If no resistance was met, the residents could stay put, under military rule. Plan Dalet specifically spoke of gaining control of areas outside the borders of the Jewish state wherever Yishuv populations existed. The issue is subject to much controversy, with historians asserting that it was defensive , while other historians assert that the plan aimed at the expulsion, sometimes called an ethnic cleansing , on the grounds that this was an integral part of a planned strategy. JSTOR 2537591 . 'Plan Dalet' or 'Plan D' was the name given by the Zionist High Command to the general plan for military operations within the framework of which the Zionists launched successive offensives in April and early May 1948 in various parts of Palestine. These offensives, which entailed the destruction of the Palestinian Arab community and the expulsion and pauperization of the bulk of the Palestine Arabs, were calculated to achieve the military fait accompli upon which the state of Israel was to be based. War in Palestine, 1948: strategy and diplomacy . Arab Attitudes to Israel . Palestine, 1948: war, escape and the emergence of the Palestinian refugee problem . Ten years of research into the 1947-49 war - The expulsion of the Palestinians re-examined . It also aims at gaining control of the areas of Jewish settlement and concentration which are located outside the borders (of the Jewish state in the Partition Plan) against regular, semi-regular, and small forces operating from bases outside or inside the state.’ .' There are <ref group=qt> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a template (see the help page ).

1948 military plan in Mandatory Palestine "Plan D" redirects here. Plan Dalet ( Hebrew : תוכנית ד' , Tokhnit dalet " Plan D ") was a Zionist military plan executed during the 1948 Palestine war for the conquest of territory in Mandatory Palestine in preparation for the establishment of a Jewish state. The plan was the blueprint for Israel's military operations starting in March 1948 until the end of the war in early 1949, and so played a central role in the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight known as the Nakba . The plan was requested by the Jewish Agency leader and later first prime minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion , and developed by the Haganah and finalized on March 10, 1948. Historians describe Plan Dalet, in which Zionist forces shifted to an offensive strategy, as the beginning of a new phase in the 1948 Palestine war. The plan was a set of guidelines to take control of Mandatory Palestine, declare a Jewish state, and defend its borders and people, including the Jewish population outside of the borders, "before, and in anticipation of" the invasion by regular Arab armies. Plan Dalet specifically included gaining control of areas wherever Yishuv populations existed, including those outside the borders of the proposed Jewish state. The plan's tactics involved laying siege to Palestinian Arab villages, bombing neighbourhoods of cities, forced expulsion of their inhabitants, and setting fields and houses on fire and detonating TNT in the rubble to prevent any return. Zionist military units possessed detailed lists of neighborhoods and villages to be destroyed and their Arab inhabitants expelled. This strategy is subject to controversy, with some historians characterizing it as defensive, while others assert that it was an integral part of a planned strategy for the expulsion, sometimes called an ethnic cleansing , of the area's native inhabitants. War in Palestine, 1948: strategy and diplomacy . Palestine, 1948: war, escape and the emergence of the Palestinian refugee problem . Ten years of research into the 1947-49 war - The expulsion of the Palestinians re-examined . Morris 2008 "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 [by Arab states]." There are <ref group=qt> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a template (see the help page ).