 The topic came back at the end of the 1948 war, when General Yigal Allon also proposed the conquest of the West Bank up to the Jordan River as the natural, defensible border of the state.This time, Ben-Gurion refused although he was aware that the IDF was militarily strong enough to carry out the conquest.He feared the reaction of Western powers and wanted to maintain good relations with the United States and not to provoke the British.