-Caveat Lector- >>> At this site, there are numerous links to the Arab perspective on the Middle East. I am not advocating any (as I have read few if any); yet, it is important to know what some representatives the majority of the area's residents think with regard to their regional identity. With the focus only on one American "ally" that is given "Liberty" to affect the press, this is -- needless to say -- unbalanced. A<>E<>R <<< From http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/1998/1948/index.htm }}>Begin Special pages commemorating 50 years of Arab dispossession since the creation of the State of Israel Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 1948-1998 David Ben-Gurion, one of the father founders of Israel, described Zionist aims in 1948 thus: "A Christian state should be established [in Lebanon], with its southern border on the Litani river. We will make an alliance with it. When we smash the Arab Legion's strength and bomb Amman, we will eliminate Transjordan too, and then Syria will fall. If Egypt still dares to fight on, we shall bomb Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo... And in this fashion, we will end the war and settle our forefathers' account with Egypt, Assyria, and Aram" *. 50 years after the Arab defeat in the1948 war, which resulted in the establishment of Israel, many of Ben-Gurion's stated aims can still be discerned in the language of Israeli and Zionist leaders. Some modifications have become apparent, in large part as a result of Arab resistance, but the biblical language in which Ben-Gurion chose to state his meaning starkly expresses the deeply-rooted nature of these violent fantasies of conquest and destruction. Resistance, in this instance through a better comprehension of the history of the struggle, as well as the writing of our own version of it, becomes more necessary than ever. Israel cannot be allowed to write the history of the past fifty years unchallenged. It is in this conviction that Al-Ahram Weekly presents the first in a regular series of articles designed to document the history and nature of Arab-Israeli struggle, as well as that of Palestinian dispossession and exile. 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