The military doctrine, the base of Plan D, clearly reflected the local Zionist ideological aspirations to acquire a maximal Jewish territorial continuum, cleansed from Arab presence, as a necessary condition for establishing an exclusive Jewish nation-state.
The highlight of the reading in terms of significance is the way in which Kimmerling criticizes both the deeds and the ideology that led to the war of 1948, suggesting that the displacement of the Palestinians was not random during the war but rather part of an intentional plan related to Zionist ideology in terms of territory. The quote below made me stop and reflect on the reading, realizing that there was indeed intent related to ideas rather than just physical deeds in terms of what transpired during the war. The part of the reading that interested me the most was the way in which Kimmerling makes reference to ideas related to morality and nationality in terms of what transpired during the formation of the Jewish state.