Israel's Moment 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
12 - International Responses to the Arab-Israeli War I: May–June 1948
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2022
- 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 debates of the UN Security Council in the weeks of May and June 1948 illustrated the strong support given to the new state of Israel by the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Ukrainian SSR, a support that was more emphatic than that offered by the United States. American and British truce resolutions tended to push back Israeli advances and diminish Arab defeats. The chapter documents this contrast in the UN statements of Andrei Gromyko (USSR), Vasyl Tarasenko (Ukrainian SSR), Warren Austin (USA), Moshe Shertok and Abba Eban (Israel), and representatives of the Arab Higher Committee and Syria. While Florimond Bonté, a leader of the French Communist Party, extolled Israel’s cause in the French National Assembly, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff continued to associate the new state of Israel with Soviet expansion, and damage to American strategic interests in the Middle East.
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- Israel's MomentInternational Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949, pp. 349 - 371Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022