Obama calls for Israel to restore 1967 boundaries

[vlad321]

Kasz216 said:

vlad321 said:

However that is false, because a decent amount of funds were received from the US and Russia, which were used to buy weapons, they did not use just their personal wealth. I know for a fact that right after the war the US gave Israel somewhere around $100million, which to me doesn't exactly scream "anti-Israel." I wouldn't exactly call 1949 the point where it was for sure that Israel woudl stick around.

As for preventing resupplies, that was part of the truce, and both sides should have adhered to it and both sides broke it.

I would... they won the war... and your proof that they got help from the US to win the war is "They got support from the US after the war."

There is a reason why it's always "How much foreign aid has the US given Israel since 1948."

Because until 1949, we didn't.  Until then we were afraid if we did it would push the Middle East into the soviets beds.

heck... because of Truman's choice to recognize Palestine... which was considered a surprise.

May 14, 1948, shortly after 6:11 p.m. eastern standard time: United States representative to the United Nations Warren Austin leaves his office at the United Nations and goes home. Secretary of State Marshall sends a State Department official to the United Nations to prevent the entire United States delegation from resigning.

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/israel/palestin.htm

 

That's how strongly a number of people in the government disagreed with recognizing Israel.  Truman for whatever reason wanted to support them.  It would seem to be due to Europeon Anti-semitisim.

Also I'd note that selling guns was more or less all the Czechs had when it came to making money... they also sold to other middle eastern countries.

I mean, from what i can tell they vastly overcharged the Israelis too.

I distinctly remember that there was some guy (could have been a woman) who found money in the US, maybe it was Russia too (or Stalin just supported the whole Zionist idea). Those monies were then used to buy armaments and other such things. I'll read up on that some more over the weekend to present a better case.