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Library » Subject Guides » Recognition of Israel


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Recognition of Israel

In 1917 Great Britain issued a statement, the Balfour Declaration, that encouraged a homeland for the Jews in Palestine. It was ratified and appointed Britain to rule Palestine.

An influx of Jews, especially after Nazi persecution began, led to fighting between the Jews and Palestinians. In 1939, Great Britain limited Jewish resettlement in Palestine.

President Truman believed that after World War II, the Jews need a homeland; he sided with the Jews and accepted the Balfour Declaration. The War and State departments did not support the President; they were concerned that the Palestinians would ally with the Soviet Union.

In 1947, the United Nations created a special committee on Palestine, which recommended the end of British rule, and the partitioning of Palestine into two states. This plan was passed by the United Nations General Assembly.

On May 14, 1948, the provisional government proclaimed a state of Israel. It was recognized by President Truman the same day, but he did not notify the State Department before he recognized Israel.

On May 15, 1948, the first Arab-Israeli war began.

To find other items that the Marshall Foundation has on Israel, search “Israel” in the library catalog: https://www.marshallfoundation.org/library/results/

Digitized items in the George C. Marshall archives:

6-019 Memorandum of the Press and Radio News Conference, February 7, 1947
6-088 Memorandum for Mr. Henderson, July 1, 1947
6-094 Headnote Regarding Palestine, July 17, 1947
6-100 Memorandum for Mr. Lovett, August 8, 1947
6-111 Minutes of the US Delegation to the UN, September 15, 1947
6-128 Memorandum for the President, November 7, 1947
6-147 Conversation with Ernest Bevin, December 4, 1947
6-195 Memorandum of the Press and Radio Conference, February 26, 1948
6-197 Memorandum of Conversation, March 2, 1948
6-237 Meeting with President Truman and Others, May 12, 1948
6-239 To Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 18, 1948
6-242 Memorandum of Conversation, May 25, 1948
6-289 Memorandum of Conversation with Mahmoud Fawzi Bey, August 27, 1948
6-299 Memorandum of Conversation with US Jewish War Veterans, September 8, 1948
6-305 Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, September 23, 1948
6-338 Meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister, November 13, 1948
A safe haven : Harry S. Truman and the founding of Israel / Allis Radosh and Ronald Radosh
C. J. George Interview 4 Details April 18, 1980
Counsel to the president : a memoir / Clark Clifford with Richard Holbrooke
Decision on Palestine : how the U.S. came to recognize Israel / Evan M. Wilson
Einstein and Marshall smiling
Einstein and Marshall talking
Einstein, Meirov and Marshall
Ethical leadership in turbulent times : modeling the public career of George C. Marshall / Gerald M. Pops
GCM00273 Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion of Israel calls on Secretary of Defense Marshall
GCM00780 Mr. Moshe Sharett, Abba Eban and Secretary of Defense Marshall
GCM00793 Marshall in black tie at U.I.T. Dinner
GCM00794 Marshall talks with Tzipora Meirov and other guests
GCM00795 Marshall with distinguished guests at U.I.T. Dinner
GCM00796 Marshall listens to guest at U.I.T. dinner
GCM00797 Marshall listens to Suzy Eban
GCM00798 Marshall with other guestss at U.I.T. dinner
GCM00799 Marshall talks with Ambassador Eban
GCM00800 Marshall with other guestss at U.I.T. dinner
GCM00801 Marshall & Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
GCM00802 Marshall shaking hands at U.I.T. Dinner
GCM00803 Marshall escorts Tzipora Meirov
GCM00804 Marshall with Israeli Ambassador
GCM00805 Marshall talks with Abraham Feinberg
GCM00806 Marshall talks with Moshe Sharett
GCM00807 Ambassador Abba Eban addresses guests
GCM00808 Abraham Feinberg speaks
GCM00809 U.I.T. Dinner Group Photo
GCM00810 U.I.T. Dinner Large Group Photo
GCM00811 U.I.T. Dinner standing group photo
GCM00812 U.I.T. Dinner standing group photo
GCM00813 U.I.T. Dinner Seated group photo
GCM00814 U.I.T. Dinner Seated group photo
GCM00815 Ambassador Eban, Marshall, Moshe Sharett
GCM00816 Israel Dinner Group Photo
GCM00817 Marshall Waves Hello
GCM00818 Sharett, Marshall, Weisgal
GCM00819 Feinberg and Marshall
GCM00820 Marshall shakes hands with Sharett
GCM00821 Marshall speaks with U.I.T. dinner guest
GCM00822 Morgenthau Introduces Marshall
GCM00823 Sharett and Marshall
GCM00824 Ambassador Abba Eban delivers speech
GCM00825 Israeli Dinner Speaker
George Kennan and the dilemmas of US foreign policy / David Mayers
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion Visits Pentagon
Marshall Carter Interview 4 Details April 18, 1980
Marshall, the Recognition of Israel and Anti-Semitism
Memoirs
Palestine and the Great Powers, 1945-1948 / Michael J. Cohen
Philip Jessup Interview Details April 3, 1959
Present at the creation my years in the State Department [by] Dean Acheson
Speech at U.I.T. Dinner, November 29, 1950
The birth of Israel: the tousled diplomatic bed
The case for Israel, by Frank Gervasi Foreword by Abba Eban
Truman, the Jewish vote, and the creation of Israel

Collection Formats:

War Department Chiefs and Executives, October 19,
Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection

Documents


Organization Chart Offices of the Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff & Secretary, General Staff, September 15,
Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection

Documents


Organization Chart Offices of the Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff & Secretariat, General Staff, March 1,
Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection

Documents


Statistics Branch War Department General Staff organization chart
Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection

Documents


Secretariat, War Department General Staff, June 7,
Call Number: GCM 7890 Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection, George C. Marshall Photographs

Photographs


Handshake after award from Gen. George C. Marshall, 1945
Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection

Photographs


Legion of Merit awarded by Gen. George C. Marshall, 1945
Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection

Photographs

Legion of Merit awarded by Gen. George C. Marshall


Newspaper clipping of Pershing attending Brown-Marshall Wedding, October 12,
Collection: George Catlett Marshall and Katherine Tupper Marshall Collection

Notice of Marshall-Brown wedding


Invitation list to wedding of Katherine T. Brown and Lt. Col. George C. Marshall, 1930
Collection: George Catlett Marshall and Katherine Tupper Marshall Collection

Documents

Inivtation list to the wedding of Katherine T. Brown and Lt. Col. George C. Marshall


Marshall Day at Virginia Military Institute, May 15,
Author: Virginia Military Institute
Collection: George C. Marshall Collection

Documents

Marshall Day Virginia Military Institute


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