The Allon Plan was never deemed acceptable by successive U.S. administrations, the Arab world or the United Nations. It was effectively killed by Prime Minister Ehud Barak, ...

Allon came up with the "Jordan Valley" peace plan. In this “plan,” Israel would cede Western Samaria (Shomron) - the part that is closest to Tel Aviv abutting the Green Line, and only keeps ...

One day in the late 1980s, my wife and I visited a staffer at the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem for an off-the-record conversation. The walls of his office were decorated with large maps produced ...

In politics, like in most things, the optimal solution probably lies somewhere in the middle. This truism has been weighing on me ever since I watched Daniel Gordis and Peter Beinart debate a ...

In her criticism of Richard Cohen's June 15 op-ed column about Jeffrey Goldberg's New Yorker story that depicted Jewish settlers as mentally unstable religious zealots, Andrea Levin [letters, June ...

Under the Allon plan, Israel would include much of the Jordan Valley within its border. This area is not within the pre-1967 line, but it is essential to Israel’s defense.

No Turning Back. The decision is tantamount to going ahead with those parts of Allon’s plan that Israel can carry out alone. As such, it carries the Middle East dispute to an angry new phase ...

Maj. Gen. Yigal Allon, Acting Prime Minister, will be the first Sabra (native-born Israeli) to hold the Premiership since Israel was founded in 1948. His predecessors–David Ben-Gurion, ...

A plan by Israel’s Minister of Labor Yigal Allon that would create an Arab enclave in part of the West Bank territory and a front line of Israeli security settlements along the bank of the ...