No kidding!
"So the US also didn’t recognize a Jewish state…"
"This is an interesting post in a blog which I like. I don’t agree with the title used by the author.. “It's Not Just The Palestinians Who Won't Recognize A "Jewish State" because it is simply incorrect as I am sure Lawrence of Cyberia knows. There isn’t one single Arab state that has conceded to Israel being a Jewish state even though the world might know that this is what Israel has always wanted to be. Ever since George W. Bush asked the world to endorse Israel’s “Jewishness”, the Arabs have made a point of not doing so. That is probably the only thing the Arabs didn’t obey master George in. The Palestinians are definitely not alone in not recognizing a Jewish state.
http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/news/
Not Just The Palestinians Who Won't Recognize A "Jewish State"
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™.
While I was working on it this afternoon, I came across a document in the U.S. National Archives (click image left to enlarge), that I thought deserved a mention in its own right.
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.
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".
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.
So why exactly is it uncontroversial when we do it, but an obstacle to peace when they do it?
(go to http://www.historicaldocuments.com/IsraelRecognition.htm to see larger image)"
Good question, blogger.
And stick to your guns, Arabs!!!!!
