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Truman had more Jewish acquaintances than virtually Midwesterners of his day
I read this volume because I wondered why Truman had, at least to judge by his public pronouncements, enthusiastically supported the creation of Israel since United kingdom had dropped the Palestinian mandate like a hot potato and this was the root crusade of virtually every problem the Usa has had in the Center East since then. It turns out he was not as enthusiastic a supporter as I had imagined. Here is a summary of what Cohen says...Truman had more Jewish acquaintances than nearly Midwesterners of his day, but his mental attitude toward Jews was never better than clashing. He was aware of, and sympathetic toward, the many Jewish constituents who appealed to him for help with getting relatives out of Europe, just he never showed distress over the fact that the U.s. did nothing about the killing of Jews during WWII. Also, his Jewish acquaintances were Reform Jews, more than concerned with being known as good and loyal Americans than they were with Zionist bug.
His preferred arroyo to the issue of what to do with the Jews after WWII was what Cohen tems Refugee Zionism, the arroyo that United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland had proposed before it gave upward the Palestinian mandate. He wanted to simultaneously allow Jews to settle an expanse of Palestine with some measure of self-rule, and he as well wanted to brand it easier for Jews to immigrate to the The states, recognizing that this would weaken the argument and pressure for a separate nation. Immediately after the war, he also directed General Eisenhower to improve weather condition for DP Jews in their resettlement camps, being enlightened of the response, otherwise, of the v one thousand thousand American Jewish voters in the US. But all this cruel through for a diversity of reasons.
- It took too long to pass the proposal to ease United states of america immigration laws in favor of Jews. This didn't happen until after Israel had already declared independence and Truman had recognized the new state, and the bill passed in weaker form than Truman had proposed.
- Britain aghast at unilaterally allowing 100,000 Jews into Palestine (due to the fear that Arab states would turn to the USSR if this was immune) and Truman wouldn't oppose them. When Britain abandoned its mandate and the UN took over, world consensus opted for a Jewish country, and Truman felt that he couldn't oppose this without fatally weakening the new body.
- American Jews came out strongly in favor of the Zionist goal of nationhood in one case the details of what had happened in the concentration camps became clear. Jews donated heavily to the Democratic political party, the Democratic party was low on funds, and the Jewish vote was of considerable importance to the The states political system.
- Israel surprised the world by defeating five combined Arab nations in 1949. Fifty-fifty the State Department, which had been anti-Zionist, came to see Israel as a stiff potential ally subsequently this, and and so, they argued that for Truman to support of an independent Israeli was in the US national involvement.
The book is well documented and, obviously, you should read it if you desire to see the substantiation for these claims.
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