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Old December 15th 03, 12:08 PM
Andrew Chaplin
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IBM wrote:

"Darrel Newman" wrote in
able.rogers.com:

Paul Hellyer - isn't he the guy who we all wanted to trade to the
Israelis as in

"Paul Hellyer + 10,000 bolts of green cloth for a One-eyed Jew"


Which is kind of ironic seeing as how one of the more important
commanders of the Israeli war for independence was in fact a
Canadian.


And arguably more competent a general than Moshe Dyan. Dyan, however,
was certainly the better politician, at least in the Israeli setting.
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