Israel’s prime minister during the 1967 Six-Day War proposed moving Palestinians to Iraq en masse, declassified documents showed. According to minutes of a Cabinet session in 1967 published by Ha’aretz this week, Levi Eshkol made the proposals as ministers debated what to do with the sizable Palestinian population that came under Israel’s control in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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