Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and American Jewish Committee President Jacob Blaustein express a compromise in the American Jewish-Israel relationship: American Jews are excited and proud of Israel's birth as a state but owe Israel no allegiance, and Israel does not speak for anyone but Israeli citizens.
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[1] Zvi Ganin, An Uneasy Relationship, American Jewish Leadership and Israel, 1948-1957 Syracuse University press (Syracuse), 2005, p. 9.
[2] Jacob Blaustein was president of the American Jewish Committee from 1949 to 1954.
[3] For example see, Ganin p. 83.
[4] Ganin, 36.
[5] Ibid, 92.
[6] Ibid, 93.
