{"id":470,"date":"2007-12-25T21:20:39","date_gmt":"2007-12-25T11:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=470"},"modified":"2007-12-25T21:20:39","modified_gmt":"2007-12-25T11:20:39","slug":"its-not-just-the-palestinians-who-wont-recognize-a-jewish-state-hintusa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"It’s Not Just The Palestinians Who Won’t Recognize A “Jewish State” (hint..USA)"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Lawrence of Cyberia<\/a><\/p>\n

“I am currently working on a long post about why the PLO recognizes the state of Israel, but refuses to meet Olmert’s demand for formal recognition of Israel as a “Jewish state”; and about the hysterical response that the PLO’s refusal has provoked among some of the Usual Friends Of Israel\u2122.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Truman<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

While I was working on it this afternoon, I came across a document in the <\/em>U.S. National Archives<\/em><\/font><\/a> (click image left to enlarge), that I thought deserved a mention in its own right.<\/em><\/p>\n

The document is from 14 May 1948. The context is that the Zionist government has proclaimed a “Jewish state” in Palestine, and is seeking U.S. recognition of that state. The document is President Harry S. Truman’s response to that request.<\/em><\/p>\n

The interesting thing is that the original text of the document is edited with hand-written corrections, to produce the wording finally approved by Truman. And the purpose of the editing is specifically to remove the suggestion that the U.S. recognizes a “Jewish state”, and to clarify that it recognizes instead the “state of Israel”. <\/em><\/p>\n

How about that: the United States was asked in 1948 to recognize the “Jewish state”, but offered recognition instead to the “state of Israel”. Just as the PLO does today. <\/em><\/p>\n

So why exactly is it uncontroversial when we do it, but an obstacle to peace when they do it?<\/em><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like the PLO the United States chose not to recognise a Jewish State but rather the State of Israel. Take a look at Presidents Truman’s original edited letter. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":3600,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ttSq-7A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}