@webarticle {649905,
	title = {Ben-Gurion{\textquoteright}s Army: How the IDF Came into Being (and Almost Didn{\textquoteright}t)},
	journal = {Mosaic Magazine},
	number = {February 3},
	year = {2020},
	note = {The two parts of this essay were published in February 2020. Visit the website of Mosaic Magazine for the responses by Benny Morris, Eliot A. Cohen, and Efraim Inbar.},
	abstract = {On the eve of Israel{\textquoteright}s statehood in 1948, with the massed forces of five Arab nations threatening invasion, David Ben-Gurion picked a fight with his own army.\&nbsp;},
	url = {https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/israel-zionism/2020/02/ben-gurions-private-plan/},
	author = {Martin Kramer}
}
