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
6 - The Truman Doctrine, the Cold War, and Jewish Refugees, Spring 1947
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
This chapter examines the Jewish Agency’s Mossad’s Brichah, Hebrew for “escape,” for Jewish survivors of the Holocaust in Europe who wanted to go to Palestine, as well as efforts of the British foreign minister Ernest Bevin to enlist the assistance of the US State Department to discourage Americans from assisting that Jewish immigration. British and American diplomats and intelligence officials feared that Brichah would enhance Soviet efforts to infiltrate communist agents into Palestine. American liberals denounced efforts the “red scare” of associating Zionism with communism.
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- Israel's MomentInternational Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949, pp. 153 - 191Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022