History is quite clear. If the State Department had had its way in 1948 there would be no Israel. Truman had such contempt for “those striped pants boys” that he did a Trump and recognized Israel immediately the moment she was founded by the UN.
“recognized Israel immediately the moment she was founded by the UN.”
The UN didn’t found Israel. The GA never made mud out of sand, much less “found” a country. If all it took was the UNGA saying “you’re a country,” The Palestinian State would have been founded twice already. It takes people willing to do the work necessary build a country, and fight and die for it if necessary. The UNGA was and is irrelevant. But everything you said about Harry Truman is otherwise OK. The last Dem POTUS that I have any respect for. Today, he would be a Trump supporting conservative, although he’d have been p!ssed about the demise of the New Deal, and quite off-put by the lack of racism. But no freakin’ way would he have been a modern-day Dem.