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To: Ilaine who wrote (102374)6/22/2003 12:33:39 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
That's why I scoff at the argument that our support for the 1947 partition had nothing to do with feeling guilty about the Holocaust.


Everything I have read really lays our acceptance of the 1947 partition on Truman, CB. He recognized Israel immediately. Marshall, and all of the admin was against it. Truman's reasons? We will never know for sure.



To: Ilaine who wrote (102374)6/22/2003 1:34:25 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
Supporting the establishment of Israel was politically far more feasible than letting a bunch of Eastern European Jews immigrate to America, I have no doubt.

The US State Department was violently anti-Semitic before before and after WWII, and did everything in its power to ensure that no European Jews reached America, and succeeded almost completely. Truman had to overrule George Marshall, a man he revered, to recognize Israel.


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