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Israel's Moment Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2022
With the second Bernadotte Report of September 1947, completed by Ralph Bunche following Bernadotte’s murder by Lehi terrorists, the State Department sought to use the UN Security Council to deprive Israel of the Negev desert and full control of the port of Haifa. Members of the Senate and House, again led by Emanuel Celler, urged lifting of the arms embargo but, as exchanges with under secretary of state Robert Lovett made clear, those efforts were not successful. Czechoslovakia remained the only government that sent weapons to the new Jewish state. Without any American military assistance, Israel repelled the Arab invasions, gained control of the Negev and the Galilee in northern Israel. As a result of its military victories, and with support from the Soviet bloc states, Israel successfully resisted American and British diplomatic efforts to use the Bernadotte Report as a basis for its boundaries.
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