{"id":37605,"date":"2023-10-21T16:10:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T16:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=37605"},"modified":"2023-10-21T16:11:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T16:11:38","slug":"jeffrey-herf-israels-moment-international-support-for-and-opposition-to-establishing-the-jewish-state-1945-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=37605","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Herf, \u201eIsrael’s Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945\u20131949\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Israel’s Moment is a major new account of how a Jewish state came to be forged in the shadow of World War Two and the Holocaust and the onset of the Cold War. Drawing on new research in government, public and private archives, Jeffrey Herf exposes the political realities that underpinned support for and opposition to Zionist aspirations in Palestine. In an unprecedented international account, he explores the role of the United States, the Arab States, the Palestine Arabs, the Zionists, and key European governments from Britain and France to the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Poland. His findings reveal a spectrum of support and opposition that stood in sharp contrast to the political coordinates that emerged during the Cold War, shedding new light on how and why the state of Israel was established in 1948 and challenging conventional associations of left and right, imperialism and anti-imperialism, and racism and anti-racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1 – Introduction<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2 – Zionist Momentum and the War Crimes Issue in the United States, 1944\u20131945<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    3 – American Liberals and Leftists Support Zionist Aspirations, 1945\u20131947<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    4 – Haj Amin al-Husseini and the French Government: May 1945\u2013May 1946<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    5 – The \u201cQuestion of Palestine\u201d at the United Nations General Assembly\u2019s First Special Session: April\u2013May 1947<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    6 – The Truman Doctrine, the Cold War, and Jewish Refugees, Spring 1947<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    7 – The French Government, Jewish Immigration to Palestine, and the Exodus Affair<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    8 – Zionist Momentum and the US and British Governments\u2019 Counteroffensive: September\u2013December 1947<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    9 – The US State Department Policy Planning Staff Memos Oppose the UN Partition Resolution: January\u2013February 1948<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    10 – The US and UN Arms Embargo: November 1947\u2013May 1948<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    11 – Responses in Washington, the United Nations, and in Europe to the Establishment of the State of Israel: May and June 1948<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    12 – International Responses to the Arab-Israeli War I: May\u2013June 1948<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    13 – International Responses to the Arab-Israeli War II: July\u2013August 1948<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    14 – The USA and Britain Again in Opposition: From the Bernadotte Plan to the End of the 1948 War<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    15 – Israel\u2019s Admission to the UN, and Sharett and Ben-Gurion\u2019s Retrospectives<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    16 – Conclusion<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bibliography<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cambridge University Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/israels-moment\/3D8F0D77E9624E01DC3C3B015659B113<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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