Us Foreign Policy, Israel & Cold War Era

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...on the contention of the Jewish people that they have an ancient right to Palestine. While the Zionist movement began prior to World War II, it escalated afterward as survivor of the Holocaust immigrated to Palestine, intent on forming their own country. On the other hand, Palestine was occupied by Arab families who had lived there for countless generations. Their claim is also grounded in history and it equally just. In 1947, the UN intervened and partitioned Palestine, giving part to the new state of Israel and part to the Palestinians.
At the close of WWII, the world looked to the United States to take a leading role in dealing with the conflict between the emergent state of Israel and the rest of Palestine (Gerner 131). the US first became involved in the Palestine controversy in the 1940s and American influence was instrumental in the passage of UN Resolution 181 in 1947, which created the state of Israel and partitioned...

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