ABSTRACT
During the first weeks after the 1967 war Foreign Minister Abba Eban declared that the June 5th map of the region had been "destroyed irrevocably," but that Israel was prepared to negotiate new frontiers with its Arab neighbors. Jerusalem was an exception not subject to negotiation. Within a month after the cease-fire the city was incorporated into the Israeli West Jerusalem municipality. The ambiguities in Labor's programs and policies encouraged militant Jewish nationalists who were eager to push the policy makers toward full integration, if not actual legal annexation, of the West Bank into Israel. The Whole Land of Israel Movement was founded after the 1967 war by "activists" in the Labor Party and right-wing intellectuals to serve as an ideological and elite-oriented pressure group toward annexation of all territories occupied during the war. Neither Menachem Begin nor the Herut movement concealed their ambition to annex the West Bank to Israel.
