Why did the US support the creation of israel in 1948?

Answer 1

President Truman was a staunch supporter of the state of Israel.

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We'd like to ask you to listen to a short part of a poem that goes like this:

"Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Maybe you know where this wide-open welcome to the seeming dregs of humanity

comes from. Maybe you don't.

It's the last few lines of the poem inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty in

New York Harbor ... the first American words in English seen by many ship loads of

immigrants and refugees arriving in the USA.

It puts the promise of this country in writing. It says: "No matter how you were

treated where you came from, no matter how down-and-out you've become or

how hopeless things seem, here's what this place stands for, and we want to

be sure you know it even before you come ashore here. This place is different.

You're welcome here, and you're free here."

That's what it says. Do we still mean it ? Did we ever mean it ?

In the last days of World War II, and then in the days after Germany's collapse,

even with significant knowledge of the Nazis' domestic genocide in parallel with

their war operations, the US and the 'allies' still restricted the arrival of European

refugees to a trickle. That means that having lost everything and escaped with

nothing but their lives, they were denied rescue during the war, and the majority

were denied sanctuary after it.

The US could hardly have maintained its saintly facade, and the holy sentiments

carved into the Statue's foundation, with a straight face, if it had also worked

Behind the Scenes of world diplomacy to also deny them access to the historic

homeland in which they wanted nothing but to live and die. Surely within any

memory, there were none more tired, more poor, more homeless, more wretched,

or more yearning to breathe free. To publicly refuse support of the restoration of

Israel would have left the United States a world laughingstock, wearing a toothy

grin, a straw hat and baggy pants, full of lofty, empty words signifying exactly

nothing. For a nation founded on ideals, it was time to put up or shut up.

Recall also that the partition of Palestine into two regions, with one of them

under the administration of the Jewish community, was a United Nations

resolution, approved by a majority of the General Assembly six months earlier.

Of course the US lobbied other UN members in support of its position. That's

what politicians and diplomats do. It's how compromise and consensus are built.

But to say that the US twisted arms and forced its desires upon others, and that

the other nations of the world were tricked and grudgingly pressured by the US

into passing a resolution that gagged them, is to insult those foreign nations and

their UN representatives, and to cherry-pick the evidence to conform to one's prejudices.