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To: LindyBill who wrote (102375)	6/22/2003 12:35:27 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The Truman Library has an on-line exhibition about the US recognition of the State of Israel. trumanlibrary.org Interesting: >>October 17, 1947: President Truman writes to Senator Claude Pepper: "I received about 35,000 pieces of mail and propaganda from the Jews in this country while this matter [the issue of the partition of Palestine, which was being considered by the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine from May 13, 1947 to August 31, 1947] was pending. I put it all in a pile and struck a match to it -- I never looked at a single one of the letters because I felt the United Nations Committee [United Nations Special Committee on Palestine] was acting in a judicial capacity and should not be interfered with." <<

To: LindyBill who wrote (102375)	6/22/2003 12:52:14 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

More on Truman and the partition - in light of the personal attacks against me on this thread, I find the following passage particularly poignant: >>Truman was besieged by Jews attempting to influence US policy. One letter said that he preferred Fascist and Arab elements to the democracy-loving Jewish people of Palestine. He was sore [and] referred the letter to his Jewish and pro-Zionist assistant David Niles, saying "It is drivels [sic] as this that makes anti-Semites. I though maybe you had best answer it because I might tell him what's good for him." He wrote to Eleanor Roosevelt on August 23, 1947, apparently in the wake of one or another Jewish terrorist atrocity: "I fear very much that the Jews are like all underdogs. When they get on top they are just as intolerant and cruel as the people were to them when they were underneath. I regret this situation very much because my sympathy has always been on their side."<< mideastweb.org