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  • 10 - The US and UN Arms Embargo: November 1947–May 1948

  • Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland, College Park
  • Book:
    Israel's Moment
    Published online:
    13 January 2022
    Print publication:
    03 February 2022, pp 292-332

  • 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.