![]() ![]() Today, as these two fascinating new books make clear, that conflict is over. ![]() Analyzing the question at Truman’s request, the newly created Central Intelligence Agency reported that partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab zones, as the United Nations was considering, would inevitably lead to war between Jews and Arabs and would undermine the security of Jews then living in Arab countries.īoth assessments were correct: The creation of Israel did lead to war, not one war but several, and to longstanding conflict between Israel and the Arab nations. Truman had to decide what should be done with the land of Palestine when Britain surrendered its international mandate there in 1947. Three decades and another world war later, President Harry S. In its report, the commission concluded, among other findings, that fulfilling Zionist aspirations to create a Jewish national home in Palestine would violate Arab rights, would be strongly opposed by all Arabs, and could not be achieved without violence. In the aftermath of World War I, as Allied leaders were deciding the fate of Arab lands freed after centuries of rule by the Ottoman Turks, President Woodrow Wilson sent a delegation known as the King-Crane Commission to the Middle East to review the situation and make recommendations. ![]()
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