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By March 1949, a classified CIA report declared Palestine was a 'Long Range Disaster'. The Agency report read in part:<blockquote>
'The establishment of the State of Israel by force, with intimidation of the Arab governments by the US and USSR, with the
cutting off of the British arms and ammunition (the Arabs only source of supply), with ample sources for Israel of munitions
and finance, the Israeli battle victory is complete, but it has solved nothing.</blockquote><blockquote>If boundaries
to an Israeli State, any boundaries, had been set and guaranteed by the Great Powers, peace might return to the area. On the
contrary, we have actually a victorious state which is limited to no frontiers and which is determined that no narrow limits
shall be set. The Near East is faced with the almost certain prospect of a profound and growing disturbance by Israel which
may last for decades... ...Instead of restoring the boundaries of the province of Judea as they were in 70 A.D., the Israeli
leaders now state freely though usually unofficially, their demand for an ever expanding empire. Their present possessions
are regarded by them as only a beachead into the Arab and Muslim World – a large part of which they plan to exploit.
They are not prepared to live off what the land will yield as the Arabs do... ...''Alone among the Great Powers, Britain has
been working on a plan to restore a balance between the forces in Palestine, but it already appears that this plan is doomed
to fail. Zionist pressure in the USA, Anglophobia in Iraq and Egypt, and above all, Russia's determination to prolong chaos
in the Near East and to complete the discrediting of British and American Diplomacy, combine to work against the policy of
the British Government and its collaborators --King Abdulla of Trans-Jordan and the Prime Minister of Iraq, Nuri al Said''.<ref>[http://www.foia.cia.gov/
OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING PALESTINE AND THE ARAB COUNTRIES, 3/8/1949, page 2, CIA Electronic Reading Room.]</ref></blockquote>
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