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U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Debate on Jewish National Home in Palestine, 1944 CIE+ members only

such a resolution would have adverse effects on the Moslem world.” This was the same argument that the State Department used in trying but failing to persuade President Truman in 1947 not to vote in favor of Palestine’s partition into Arab and Jewish states. The debate in the Congress took place more than a year before World War II ended in Europe. Fear of Arab state retaliation against the US never materialized because the US endorsed Jewish immigration to Palestine and a two state solution.

Documents and Sources|February 18, 1944

Documents and Personalities of the 1936-1939 Arab Riots CIE+ members only

Documents and Sources|April 1944

Sir Harold MacMichael, High Commissioner of Palestine, to Oliver Stanley, Colonial Secretary, 1944 CIE+ members only

Documents and Sources|July 17, 1944

Reasoned Views for Palestinian Arabs’ Dysfunctional Condition, 1945-1949

Documents and Sources, Issues and Analyses, Ken's Blog|1945-1949|Spanish|Hebrew|Portuguese

Jewish Request at End of WWII: Let My People Go (to Palestine)! Moshe Sharett, 1945 CIE+ members only

Documents and Sources|May 13, 1945

British Report Reveals “Separatist” Jewish Education System in Palestine, 1946 CIE+ members only

With the British spending local revenue on strategic needs — ports, roads and communication systems — scant funds were devoted to education in the Mandate. Already baked into diasporic habits, the Jewish community raced forward in educating its own in Palestine to inculcate penetrating attachments to Palestine as the Jewish national home. Arab youth literacy ran in place, with separatist education contributing mightily to communal divisions, as occurred simultaneously in the economic and geospatial spheres.

Documents and Sources|1946

Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, 1946 CIE+ members only

Documents and Sources|April 20, 1946

Foreign Relations of the United States in the Middle East and Israel, 1947-1978 CIE+ members only

Documents and Sources|1947-1978

1947 Truman Doctrine CIE+ members only

Documents and Sources|March 1947

Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko’s Remarks to the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine, 1947 CIE+ members only

Documents and Sources|May 14, 1947

Memorandum on the Administration of Palestine, June 1947 CIE+ members only

Documents and Sources|June 1947

Ben-Gurion and the Status-Quo Agreement: Jewish Laws to Be Protected in New State, 1947

Documents and Sources|June 19, 1947|Spanish

Volume XXIII, Series A (August 1947-June 1952) CIE+ members only

The last of 23 volumes of Chaim Weizmann’s Letters summarized wonderfully by Aaron Klieman, recalls the Israeli first president’s views of those fateful years for Zionism and Israel from 1947-1952. Chaim Weizmann died at his home in Rehovot on 9 November 1952, shortly before his 78th birthday. All of the letters read together, provide ring side seat to Zionism as an idea to the reality of the Jewish state.

Documents and Sources|August 1, 1947

Report of the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine, 1947 CIE+ members only

Documents and Sources|August 31, 1947|Spanish

Abdul Rahman ‘Azzam Pasha Rejects Any Compromise With Zionists, 1947 CIE+ members only

UNGA (Palestine Partition) Resolution 181, 1947

Hillel Cohen, “Army of Shadows,” Showing Regular Palestinian Arab Collaboration With Zionists Through 1947 CIE+ members only

Irrefutable evidence shows Palestinian Arab collaboration with Zionists during the British Mandate greatly assisted Jewish state building. Cohen further asserts a general absence among Palestinians of a sense of national feeling, with loyalties instead tied to families, villages and other localities. Quite certainly without Palestinian Arab collaboration, Zionists would not have succeeded in building a nucleus for the Jewish state. Arabic newspapers in Palestine and British scrutiny show the constancy of the Arab population’s engagement with the Zionists, and this included Arabs resident inside Palestine.

Documents and Sources, Issues and Analyses|1947

George Kennan Memorandum Urges U.S. Government to Reverse Support for Partition of Palestine, 1948

1937 Peel (Royal) Commission Report, is one of the two best summaries of the British presence in Palestine. Both are substantial in terms of content, detail and analyses; both were written from Britain’s perspective. Read these along with 1931 Census for Palestine to have a fuller grasp of the politics and the populations that shaped Britain’s Palestine’s administration from 1918-1948

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Documents and Sources|May 15, 1948|Spanish

Israel State Archives, “Immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel, 1948-1985” CIE+ members only

Documents and Sources|1948-1985

Zionism and Other Jewish History