Tuesday, July 17, 2007

"Besides, King Hussein was doing a fine job neutering the Palestinians, either making them Jordanians or prodding them to emigrate....(The army’s chief rabbi, Gen. Shlomo Goren, suggested blowing up the Dome of the Rock.)...Hopes that Palestinians would flee en masse, as they had in 1948 (the Israelis even had buses conveniently available to them in East Jerusalem), never materialized."