WASHINGTON – For 70 years, historians have thoroughly documented the unlikely events that led to Israel's birth, including US president Harry Truman's support for the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states.
But a document recently uncovered in the archives of the former president's library offers new insight into his fervor for the cause.
The Jerusalem Post obtained a handwritten note on White House letterhead that an archivist at the Truman Library said was drafted by his press secretary more than a year before the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948. It details a concerted effort by the US administration to whip up votes at the United Nations in support of the partition.
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