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Israel's Moment Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2022
This chapter examines Israel’s admission to the United Nations in May 1949 with a focus on now Israeli foreign minister Moshe Sharret’s (formerly Shertok) first speech to the UN in that capacity. Sharret recalled the history of international support and opposition to the Zionist project in the previous few years, and articulated Ben-Gurion’s hopes for good relations with the both the United States and the Soviet Union. In response to American criticism of Israeli policy, now prime minister Ben-Gurion told now US ambassador to Israel James McDonald that the Jews in Palestine and then Israel would have been in dire circumstances if they had been dependent on support from the United States
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