Love of the Land: The Origins of the U.S.-Israel Relationship: Truman and the Jewish State

The Origins of the U.S.-Israel Relationship: Truman and the Jewish State

Allis Radosh and Ronald Radosh
The Washington Institute
for Near East Policy
30 April '10

As Israel marks its sixty-second birthday in 2010, U.S.-Israeli relations currently face the sort of tension that has periodically bedeviled the two allies. Indeed, from the very founding of Israel, the concept of creating a Jewish state was widely popular among the American people but deeply controversial among the policymaking elite. As President Truman himself admitted, no issue was "more controversial or more complex than the problem of Israel."

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The Washington Institute honored Allis and Ronald Radosh, winners of the 2009 Washington Institute Book Prize for A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel, at a special Policy Forum on April 30, 2010, where they discussed the origins of the U.S.-Israel relationship and the evolution of the Truman administration's policy toward the idea of a Jewish state.

Love of the Land: The Origins of the U.S.-Israel Relationship: Truman and the Jewish State