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President Truman Put an Arms Embargo on The Newly Formed State of Israel that Nearly Wiped Out the Jewish State.

Quote from https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-u-s-israel-policy-evolved-over-70-years/

When President Harry Truman decided to support partition and later recognized Israel eleven minutes after David Ben-Gurion declared independence, he faced intense opposition within his own cabinet. Secretary of Defense James Forrestal reiterated Arabist fears regarding oil supplies and Secretary of State George Marshall threatened not to vote for Truman’s reelection. Truman overruled them because he wanted to help Holocaust survivors, believed in redeeming past promises to support a Jewish state and he thought partitioning Palestine would lead to peace. Still, he was convinced to impose an arms embargo that severely hampered Israel’s ability to defend itself.

To see an example of how bad the Truman arms embargo was see, the post, The Four Pilots that Saved the Land of Israel.

I am raising this point now as a supplement to another post entitled Regarding Relying on Non-Jewish “Friends” to Support Israel which needs to be reviewed in light of the new meeting between Biden and Bennett.
One friend brings another. The permanent location of this post is at https://vilnagaon.org/president-truman-put-an-arms-embargo-on-the-newly-formed-state-of-israel-that-nearly-wiped-out-the-jewish-state/

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B”H Excerpts from An Anthology of the Gaon by Rabbi Moshe Zuriel {Tzuriel}

A Selection of sayings of the Vilna Gaon regarding beliefs, extracted from most of the writings of his disciples, of those faithful to him, and from some of his own writings.

Swiftness

The fact that a person puts off performing a mitzvah until the morrow leads to his not performing it at all, rather, as soon as he has the opportunity he should immediately perform it – to Proverbs 10/8, 14/23, 27/1

If not now, then when?” (Avot I) – the Sages did not say ”if not today”, for even on the same day, one should already now, perform the mitzvah.- to Proverbs 6:9

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