{"id":5623,"date":"2014-09-15T20:16:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T18:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=5623"},"modified":"2014-09-16T12:38:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T10:38:55","slug":"uncovered-u-k-intel-encouraged-arab-armies-to-invade-israel-in-1948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=5623","title":{"rendered":"Uncovered: U.K. intel encouraged Arab armies to invade Israel in 1948 [ I ]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Uncovered: U.K. intel encouraged Arab armies to invade Israel in 1948<\/a>\u00a0[I]<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

by Meir Zamir<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin. Photo by AP<\/p><\/div>\n

Intelligence obtained by the French secret services in the Middle East sheds new light on Britain\u2019s role in the Arab-Israeli War of Independence.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

September 11, 1947. On the eve of the Arab League\u2019s political committee meeting to decide on the Arab response to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) report [supporting the end of the British mandate and partitioning the land between Jews and Arabs], the Lebanese newspaper L\u2019Orient published an article. \u201cBloc Oriental et extension de la Ligue\u201d argued that, like the Greater Syria plan [that aimed to unite Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine], the Oriental Bloc \u2013 a French term for Britain\u2019s planned regional defense pact \u2013 hung over the independence of Arab countries and the Arab League like the Sword of Damocles, and that its authors were one and the same: [Iraqi Prime Minister] Nuri al-Sa\u2019id and [Jordanian] King Abdullah.<\/span><\/p>\n

On September 20, the Lebanese newspaper Le Jour reported that after the Arab League meeting in Saoufar, Lebanon, Brig. Iltyd Clayton \u2013 whom it defined as \u201chead of the British intelligence in the Middle East\u201d \u2013 had left for Damascus. It quoted a Syrian newspaper speculating on whether his visit was connected to the Greater Syria scheme and the tense relations between the Syrian and Lebanese presidents (Shukri al-Quwatli and Bishara al-Khuri) and Jordan\u2019s King Abdullah, or to events in Palestine.<\/span><\/p>\n

On February 19, 1948, the Lebanese newspaper Le Soir published an article titled \u201cClaytonmade.\u201d Based on \u201cZionist sources,\u201d it reported that Brig. Clayton \u2013 \u201carchitect\u201d of the Greater Syria plan, the Oriental Bloc and the bilateral defense treaties with the Arab states \u2013 was now advocating a new scheme for the partition of Palestine. The plan proposed that : \u201cImperialist Lebanon will annex the Western Galilee up to Shavei Zion; Syria the northeastern part of the Galilee and part of its southern region; Egypt will have part of the cake; and Transjordan will swallow up the rest.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, these and other reports in the Lebanese press on the activities of British secret agents were part of a secret war being waged by French intelligence against the British.<\/span><\/p>\n

Information conveyed by the French intelligence services to the Haganah [the prestate underground Jewish army] in the fall of 1947 indicated that Brig. Clayton and his assistants were involved in a new initiative to secure Britain\u2019s strategic position in the Middle East, and linked Clayton to the escalating Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine. The sources also referred to a new partition plan proposed by Clayton, which, contradicting that of the United Nations, aimed to split Palestine between the neighboring Arab states and limit the designated territory of the Jewish state to the coastal area between Atlit [just south of Haifa] and Tel Aviv.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more: Uncovered: U.K. intel…<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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