The Last Ditch -- THE ISRAELI ORIGINS OF BUSH II'S WAR: A CLOSER LOOK by Stephen J. Sniegoski by Stephen J. Sniegoski -- NOTES

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NOTES

1. Tom Segev, One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000), pp. 404-5. For a history of Zionist ideas on expulsion, see Nur Masalha, Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of "Transfer" in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948 (Washington: Institute of Palestine Studies, 1992).
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2. Quoted in Norman Finkelstein, "Part I — An introduction to the Israel-Palestine conflict," From Occupied Palestine, September 2002.
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3. Finkelstein.
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4. Saleh Abdel-Jawwad, "Israel: the ultimate winner," Al-Ahram Weekly Online (issue no. 634), April 17-23, 2003.
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5. Abdel-Jawwad.
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6. Ilan Peleg, Begin's Foreign Policy, 1977-1983 (New York: Greenwood Press, 1987), p. 47.
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7. Peleg, p. 181.
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8. Peleg, p. 5.
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9. Peleg, pp. 51-93.
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10. Peleg, pp. 95-142; and Yoram Peri, "Coexistence or Hegemony? Shifts in the Israeli Security Concept," in The Roots of Begin's Success, ed. Dan Caspi, Abraham Diskin, and Emmanuel Gutmann (London: Croom Helm Ltd., 1984), p. 204.
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11. Peleg, p. 184.
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12. Israel Shahak, trans. and ed., The Zionist Plan for the Middle East, a translation of Oded Yinon, "A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties" (Belmont, Mass.: Association of Arab American University Graduates, 1982).
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13. Shahak.
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14. Seymour M. Hersh, "Plan B: As June 30th approaches, Israel looks to the Kurds," New Yorker, June 30, 2004.
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15. Hersh.
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16. Hersh.
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17. Noam Chomsky, Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians, updated edition (Cambridge, Mass.: South End Press, 1999), p. 457.
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18. Yoram Peri, "From coexistence to hegemony," Davar, October 1, 1982, discussed in Chomsky, p. 462.
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19. Peri, "From coexistence to hegemony," discussed in Chomsky, p. 462.
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20. Chomsky, p. 455.
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21. Peri, "From coexistence to hegemony," discussed in Chomsky, p. 463.
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22. Peri, "Coexistence or Hegemony?," pp. 210-11.
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23. Peleg, pp. 143-78.
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24. Peri, "Coexistence or Hegemony?," p. 211.
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25. Yehoshafat Harkabi, Israel's Fateful Hour (New York: Harper & Row, 1988), pp. 57-58.
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26. Harkabi, p. 97.
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27. Quoted in Elizabeth Drew, "The Neocons in Power," New York Review of Books, June 12, 2003.
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28. Stephen J. Sniegoski, "Gulf War 1991: Prefiguration and prelude to the 2003 Iraq debacle," The Last Ditch, February 18 and 24, and March 8, 2005.
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29. The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies' Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000, "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," 1996. Others included in the study group were James Colbert (Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs), Charles Fairbanks, Jr. (Johns Hopkins University), Robert Loewenberg (president, Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies), Jonathan Torop (Washington Institute for Near East Policy), and Meyrav Wurmser (Johns Hopkins University).
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30. "A Clean Break"; and Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, "Clean Break or Dirty War? Israel's Foreign Policy Directive to the United States."
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31. "A Clean Break"; "Clean Break or Dirty War?"
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32. "A Clean Break"; "Clean Break or Dirty War?"
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33. James Bamford, A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies (New York: Doubleday, 2004), pp. 262-63.
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34. William James Martin, "A Clean Break with the Road Map," CounterPunch, February 14-15, 2004.
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35. Martin.
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36. "A Clean Break"; "Clean Break or Dirty War?"
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