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Kasz216 on 14 July 2013
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Icy-Zone said:
Kasz216 said:
Icy-Zone said:
The U.S. has no problems giving Jews land in another side of the planet (Israel), but when it comes to giving Native Americans land from their own country, suddenly they don't think it's necessary. No wonder the U.S. isn't seen in the greatest light by the majority of the world's population.

Wrong United country there.

It was the United Kingdom that gave the Jews Israel.  After the Jews had bought a lot of it from arabs already.


And the U.S. didn't support the move?

It depends based on the time... but most of the time... no.

The US was much more intersted in winning over the rest of the Middle East.

Official US policy was pretty much just admitting the UK had the power to do it, without giving them any actual support so they could play a balancing act with the british and the new middleastern powers.

This continued up until like World War 2 and after where the US was actually courting the middle east harder and wound up with Israel as an ally by accident as Israel originally walked a path of nuetrality in the cold war.  Only changing sides do to a bunch of jews being killed for "atempting to kill stalin."

 

They eventually got onboard for Resolution 181... though mostly only because Truman was a really unpopular president and he wasn't going to lose any votes for supporting it.  (The state department and in general most the government saw it counterproductive with an arab/russian pipeline being the big danager.)

The story goes recognition of Israel only happened because his campaign advisor said he would vote against him if he didn't recognize Israel.  It actually took the entire state department by surprise since they were working on something completely different.

 

So basically US policy up to the founding of Israel was "Eh, we'd rather you didn't) For 20+ years, then Wilson said "eh fuck it, i need votes."

 

Even after that US recognized Palestine they mostly ignored Israel, and actually sided agaisnt Israel and with Egypt when Israel took over the Suez Canal.

Amusngly it ended up being the UK, France and israel vs Egypt, the United States and Russia. 

 


Generally the US waffeld between "Support Arabs more/support all equally) policy until like... LBJ.