Monday, July 21, 2014

Harry Truman Writing on Palestine


In 1946 U.S. President Harry Truman wrote to the King of Saudi Arabia about Palestine.  In his letter Truman writes:
The Government and people of the United States have given support to the concept of a Jewish National Home in Palestine ever since the termination of the first World War...
World War I had been over for nearly thirty years at the time of this letter.  This means that a Jewish home in Palestine has been "official U.S. policy" for almost a full century.
 

Harry Truman with Crown Prince Saud
(1947)
Truman continues:

I do not consider that my urging of the admittance of a considerable number of displaced Jews into Palestine or my statements with regard to the solution of the problem of Palestine in any sense represent an action hostile to the Arab people. 

For over six decades the U.S. has chosen to walk the tightrope by supporting the Saudi Arab monarchy while also supporting Israel against Palestinian Arab's.  The world's largest military supporting and opposing Arab people depending upon where they stand on the earth has been and always will be a recipe for disaster.



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