GALILI DOCUMENT

A compromise brokered byIsrael Labor PartystalwartIsrael Galiliin the summer of 1973 for the purpose of maintaining party unity. It committed Labor to supporting the establishment ofsettlementsin theWest Bankand theGaza Strip, the building of the town ofYamitin theSinaiDesert, and the integration of theeconomyof theOccupied Territorieswith that of Israel.This compromise satisfied such Labor Party hawks asMoshe Dayan(who had been threatening to bolt the party over its apparent softness on the issue of settlements), but it was opposed by such moderates asAbba Eban, who viewed it as a legitimization of the policy of "creeping annexation" advocated by the oppositionGahalParty in theKnessetheaded byMenachem Begin. The Galili Document was dropped by Labor following theYom Kippur War(1973) and replaced by a new 14-point platform supported by Eban and the party's moderate wing that made no explicit or implicit reference to the retention by Israel of any of the Occupied Territories, exceptJerusalem. The platform also referred, for the first time, to Labor's recognition of the need forPalestinianself-expression in aJordanian-Palestinian state.