Inside the Dems’ betrayal of Israel: Goodwin
By Michael Goodwin
May 22, 2021 | 9:19pm | Updated
As presidential press releases go, this one was very short and enormously consequential. Eleven minutes after Israel declared its independence on May 14, 1948, the White House issued a two-sentence statement.
The first said simply, “This Government has been informed that a Jewish state has been proclaimed in Palestine and recognition has been requested by the provisional Government thereof.”
The second sentence made history: “The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the State of Israel.”
It was signed “Harry Truman.”
The president’s decision made America the first country to recognize the new nation and made him a hero to Jews around the world. It also helped make the Democrat Party a reliable ally of Israel for decades as war after war threatened its survival.
Unfortunately, Truman would not recognize his party today.
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