President Truman felt the tragedy of the Jews and refugees conditions in the Middle East and Europe. Truman felt that the remedy for the Jews was by reserving a partial region of Palestine for the Jews to inhabit. He later on conceded, that he was aware of how the Arabs would show retaliation against the Jews living in their country. Just like the president before him, he promised that he would take no action without fully consulting the Arabs, and he reneged.
There were benefits President Harry Truman was able to obtain while supporting Israel to become a sovereign country. During Truman’s effort to make his plan work, he was supported by the Zionists leaders, Samuel I Rosenman, David K. Niles, and Clark Clifford, all members of his staff, and his closest friend Eddie Jacobson, his business
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Though Truman had a strong campaign, he had many things to consider. Truman's decision was violating the fundamental right for people to choose and determine their own destiny in society. Truman was opposed by the non-jewish fundamentalists, and politicians, as they feared they would lose their relationship with the Arabians. One of the most opposing statements was made by Loy Henderson, State Department's chief of Near Eastern Affairs. He said, “Partition would not only create anti-Americanism but would also require U.S. troops to enforce it.” In other words, Truman’s decisions violated both the U.S. and the UN principles of self-determination. Later, in a 1953 article in the American Zionist, Emmanuel Neumann, president of the Zionist Organization of America, conceded, “Truman would not have worked so hard for the creation of Israel but for “the prospect of wholesale defections from the Democratic Party.” From the statement in Neumann’s article, it implies that Truman had to face so much opposition in the Democratic party. He had a chance of getting his entire decision