Plan Dalet (or Plan D) was a plan that the Haganah in Palestine worked out during the autumn 1947 to the spring 1948. The purpouse of the plan was, according to Zionist sources to defend the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. According to Palestinian sources it was a plan with the purpouse of conquering as much of Palestine as possible (Plan Dalet: Master Plan for the Conquest of Palestine, Walid, Khalidi, for example).
Plan Dalet was revised in December, after the [[1947 UN Partition plan]], and finalized on March 10, 1948. The first step of the plan was initiated in April when Operation Nachshon was launched, although the document states that action wasn't intended to be undertaken before the British had left (which they didn't do before (May 14):
- This plan rests on the general assumption that during its implementation, the forces of the [British] authorities will not be present in the country. (Plan Dalet, Section 2b)
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The plan begins with:
In Section 3b the plan describes how to deal with occupied "enemy
population centers":
Purpouse of Plan Dalet
This passage has, by the Palestinian side, been interpreted to mean
that Plan Dalet was not really of defensive nature. But that the
Zioninsts intended to disregard the 1947 UN Partition plan and secure
positions outside the partition plans borders.
The plan assumed that most of the opposition would come from
semi-irregular forces and local militia which would work in civilian
areas.See also
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