16 Apr 2010
Clare Spark
Jerry Gordon's article was comprehensive and depressing, but the situation he describes has been going on since the Balfour Declaration. I spent time in Ralph Bunche's UN papers at UCLA, covering the period when he was working for UNSCOP, then assistant to Count Bernadotte (together they were undermining the UN partition resolution of Nov.29, 1947), and then Acting Mediator, for which he received a Nobel Peace Prize. I wrote a short blog about the long term interests of the U.S. and a few lines about Bunche's pro-Arab views here: http://clarespark.com/2009/09/11/oil-politics-and-obamas-view-of-israeli-history/.
23 Apr 2010
e j schef
When President Truman was trying to decide how to vote in the United Nations to support or not the creation of the State of Israel, Secretary of State Marshall opposed the concept based on the simple math existing in 1948 of over 100 million Arabs against the idea vs and a little more than a half million Jews in what would become Israel. The British did their own math when they issued the White Paper before WWII.
Currently there is an Administration in Washington that ideologically believes that the American Century is over and American exceptionalism never was. It is wrong about this ideology but whether beliefs are true or not, they are always true in their consequences.
The immediate consequence is a change in policy that takes the math into consideration. What it is missing is that other allies of America are doubting what it means to be a friend of the United States and those who would try to destroy Israel are encouraged to the point that the next war is around the corner.
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