Israel's Moment International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949
Book contents
- Israel’s Moment
- Israel’s Moment
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Style
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Zionist Momentum and the War Crimes Issue in the United States, 1944–1945
- 3 American Liberals and Leftists Support Zionist Aspirations, 1945–1947
- 4 Haj Amin al-Husseini and the French Government: May 1945–May 1946
- 5 The “Question of Palestine” at the United Nations General Assembly’s First Special Session: April–May 1947
- 6 The Truman Doctrine, the Cold War, and Jewish Refugees, Spring 1947
- 7 The French Government, Jewish Immigration to Palestine, and the Exodus Affair
- 8 Zionist Momentum and the US and British Governments’ Counteroffensive: September–December 1947
- 9 The US State Department Policy Planning Staff Memos Oppose the UN Partition Resolution: January–February 1948
- 10 The US and UN Arms Embargo: November 1947–May 1948
- 11 Responses in Washington, the United Nations, and in Europe to the Establishment of the State of Israel: May and June 1948
- 12 International Responses to the Arab-Israeli War I: May–June 1948
- 13 International Responses to the Arab-Israeli War II: July–August 1948
- 14 The USA and Britain Again in Opposition: From the Bernadotte Plan to the End of the 1948 War
- 15 Israel’s Admission to the UN, and Sharett and Ben-Gurion’s Retrospectives
- 16 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
10 - The US and UN Arms Embargo: November 1947–May 1948
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2022
Book contents
- Israel’s Moment
- Israel’s Moment
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Style
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Zionist Momentum and the War Crimes Issue in the United States, 1944–1945
- 3 American Liberals and Leftists Support Zionist Aspirations, 1945–1947
- 4 Haj Amin al-Husseini and the French Government: May 1945–May 1946
- 5 The “Question of Palestine” at the United Nations General Assembly’s First Special Session: April–May 1947
- 6 The Truman Doctrine, the Cold War, and Jewish Refugees, Spring 1947
- 7 The French Government, Jewish Immigration to Palestine, and the Exodus Affair
- 8 Zionist Momentum and the US and British Governments’ Counteroffensive: September–December 1947
- 9 The US State Department Policy Planning Staff Memos Oppose the UN Partition Resolution: January–February 1948
- 10 The US and UN Arms Embargo: November 1947–May 1948
- 11 Responses in Washington, the United Nations, and in Europe to the Establishment of the State of Israel: May and June 1948
- 12 International Responses to the Arab-Israeli War I: May–June 1948
- 13 International Responses to the Arab-Israeli War II: July–August 1948
- 14 The USA and Britain Again in Opposition: From the Bernadotte Plan to the End of the 1948 War
- 15 Israel’s Admission to the UN, and Sharett and Ben-Gurion’s Retrospectives
- 16 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The most important result of State Department opposition to the Zionist project was the imposition, in November 1947, of an embargo on arms to the Jews in Palestine and to the Arab states. The chapter examines official reasons for the embargo as well as efforts to lift it by American liberals including Senator Robert F. Wagner, Congressman Emanuel Celler, and journalists at PM such as I. F. Stone among others. They argued that the embargo, imposed when the Arabs began their violent attack in Palestine, fell most heavily on the Jews, who did not yet have a state. Secretary of State George Marshall insisted on continuing the embargo. The communist regime in Czechoslovakia became the only government to flout first the US and British, and then what became a UN Security Council embargo.
Keywords
US State Department arms embargoLoy HendersonShlomo Slonim’s critiqueArab Higher CommitteeCongressional opposition to arms embargoEmanuel Celler, Robert Wagner, et al.I. F. StoneAmerican Christian Palestine CommitteePM“Arms for Jewish Palestine Mass Meeting” in New YorkVictor Bernstein in PMHenry Wallace in The New RepublicBenzion Netanyahu and Joseph SchechtmanEmanuel Celler-Robert Lovett correspondence on the arms embargoSecretary of State George MarshallUnited Nations Security Council truce resolutions and views of the Soviet Union, the United States, and the Jewish Agency; David Ben-Gurion on war and diplomacy in spring 1948Communist Czechoslovakia delivery of arms to the Jews in PalestineAmerican consulate in Marseille in Jewish immigration to Palestine
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- Israel's MomentInternational Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949, pp. 292 - 332Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022