http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence_(Israel)
Eleven minutes after the Declaration of Independence was signed,
President Truman de facto recognized the State of Israel, followed by
Iran (which had voted against the UN partition plan), Guatemala,
Iceland, Nicaragua, Romania and
See also
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/921/ee2.htm
excerpt:
After Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic and Slovakia, was
liberated from the Nazis by the Red Army, it became a socialist
republic, and its relations with the Middle East lurched in an even
stranger direction. In 1948 Stalin ord
> I think the Soviet material support came in the early 1950s, to better
> arm and get ready for even more fighting
Better correct myself on that. For example, see this (the site even
has a photo of a Messerschmidt that went to Israel). It seems like a
fairly pro-Israeli source at that. The aid wa
>> It was soviet guns and support that made Israel a reality.
Mostly, indirectly via Czechoslovakia. The Soviet Union,
however, did much to make the creation of Israel possible.
They had backed the 1947 plan for the partition of Palestine.
They early on recognized the new state when it was created
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Marxism-Thaxis] Albert Einstein, Paul Robeson and Israel
Jim Farmelant
Sat May 11 08:58:49 MDT 2002
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Actually, Einstein did call himself a Zionist but his brand of Zionism
which was shared with such people like Martin Buber, Hannah Arendt,
and Hebrew University founder Judah Magnes embraced the
notion of a secular bi-national state in which Jews and
Arabs would be equals. Einstein feared that i
Albert Einstein, Paul Robeson and Israel
By William Loren Katz
At a moment when so much of the world decries the shockingly
senseless, destructive militarism of the Israeli state and
demands protection of the sacred human rights of Palestinian
people, the historic relationship between Jewish
