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Earlier rejection of a Jewish army of 200,000
"It was a grandiose plan in which German and Arab commandos would parachute into Palestine and poison Tel Aviv's water supply in order to kill as many Jews as possible , rousing the country's Arabs to fight a holy war against the British occupiers. It failed miserably when the British, having cracked the Nazis' Enigma code, captured Salameh and four others after they dropped into a desert ravine near Jericho on October 6, 1944."<ref>Bergman, R. (2019). Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations. United States: Random House Publishing Group, [https://books.google.com/books?id=YeycDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA22 p. 22]</ref>
"It was a grandiose plan in which German and Arab commandos would parachute into Palestine and poison Tel Aviv's water supply in order to kill as many Jews as possible , rousing the country's Arabs to fight a holy war against the British occupiers. It failed miserably when the British, having cracked the Nazis' Enigma code, captured Salameh and four others after they dropped into a desert ravine near Jericho on October 6, 1944."<ref>Bergman, R. (2019). Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations. United States: Random House Publishing Group, [https://books.google.com/books?id=YeycDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA22 p. 22]</ref>
==Earlier rejection of a Jewish army of 200,000===
The plan for a "Jewish Army" of 200,000 Jews, proposed by the Zionist Organization 1940-1944, was rejected by the British government.<ref>Committee for a Jewish Army New-York ([https://www.infocenters.co.il/jabo/jabo_multimedia/Files/linked/%D7%973%20-5_8.PDF]).</ref><ref>[https://www.jta.org/archive/senators-mead-murray-stress-need-for-jewish-army-in-middle-east Senators Mead, Murray Stress Need for Jewish Army in Middle East]. ''JTA''. May 4, 1942.<blockquote><small>
U. S. Senator James M. Mead of New York, speaking last night, before 700 guests, at the testimonial dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, tendered to Pierre van Paassen, foreign correspondent, and national chairman of the Committee for a Jewish Army, declared that “We should recognize that to discriminate against the stateless and Palestinian Jews by refusing them the status and dignity we have granted to the Free Dutch, the Free Poles, the Free Czechs and the Free French, and all other free peoples, is to violate the sacred principles for which we are fighting!”</small></blockquot></ref>
==See also==
==See also==