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A Missed Opportunity for Peace in Gaza, 75 Years Ago, When America Backed Israel Annexing the Territory

The proposal’s failure is a reminder that Arab states, then as now, viewed the Palestinian issue as a useful tool with which to bash Israel.

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David Ben-Gurion reads the Declaration of Independence on May 14, 1948 at Tel Aviv, during the ceremony founding the State of Israel. Zoltan Kluger/GPO via Getty Images, Wikimedia Commons
MICHAEL FREUND
MICHAEL FREUND

Amid the Biden administration’s intensifying browbeating of Israel over the war in Gaza, it will probably strike many as difficult to believe that there was once a time when Washington was in favor of the Jewish state annexing the territory.

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MICHAEL FREUND
MICHAEL FREUND

Mr. Freund, a veteran Jerusalem Post columnist, served as Deputy Communications Director under Prime Minister Netanyahu.

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