{"id":275,"date":"2009-05-07T04:47:01","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T11:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/breasy.com\/israeldefender\/?p=275"},"modified":"2010-04-04T01:45:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T08:45:31","slug":"recognition-of-the-jewish-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/2009\/05\/recognition-of-the-jewish-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Why all the angst about recognizing the Jewish State?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israels need to be recognized as a Jewish State seems to be superfluous since this fact is repeated, very clearly, no less than 5 times in Ben Gurion<\/code>s state-founding declaration.<\/p>\n\n

The specific quote is unambiguous, namely:<\/p>\n\n

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“Accordingly we, members of the people’s council, representatives of the Jewish community of Eretz-Israel and of the Zionist movement, are here assembled on the day of the termination of the British mandate over Eretz-Israel and, by virtue of our natural and historic right and on the strength of the resolution of the United Nations general assembly, hereby declare the establishment of a Jewish state<\/strong> in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the state of Israel.”
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Thus there can be no doubt that all the States voting to pass the UNs resolution on November 30, 1947 knew they were voting for or against acceptance of a Jewish State. As did President Truman, who announced the USA<\/code>s recognition of the State of Israel 11 minutes after it came into being, May 14, 1948. Here is the specific wording:<\/p>\n\n

\u201cThis Government has been informed that a Jewish State has been proclaimed in Palestine and recognition thereof has been requested by the provisional government thereof. The United States recognizes the de facto authority of the State of Israel.\u201d\u009d\nCould any of the states which subsequently established relations with Israel have been ignorant of the fact that Israel was a Jewish State?<\/p>\n\n

The founding document is in fact Israel’s constitution. We were surely remiss not to incorporate \u201d\u02dcThe Jewish Stateappellation on the official letterhead which features the Menorah as Israel<\/code>s logo. \u201d\u02dcThe Jewish Stateshould have been used to sub-title the artwork. However, there<\/code>s no reason why this addition should not immediately become a permanent part of the state`s logo.
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Here are the 5 paragraphs in which the Jewish State is mentioned. I did not attach this information to my letter to the Jerusalem Post knowing this would not be welcome.
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1.
\nIn the year 5657 (1897), at the summons of the spiritual father of the Jewish State<\/strong>, Theodore Herzl, the first Zionist Congress convened and proclaimed the right of the Jewish people to national rebirth in its own \ncountry.
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2.
\nThe catastrophe which recently befell the Jewish people – the massacre of millions of Jews in Europe – was another clear demonstration of the urgency of solving the problem of its homelessness by re-establishing in Eretz-Israel the Jewish State<\/strong>, which would open the gates of the homeland wide to every Jew and confer upon the Jewish people the status of a fully privileged member of the comity of nations.
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3.
\nOn the 29th November, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish State<\/strong> in Eretz-Israel; the General Assembly required the inhabitants of Eretz-Israel to take such steps as were necessary on their part for the implementation of that resolution. This recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their State is irrevocable.
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4.
Accordingly we, members of the people’s council, representatives of the Jewish community of Eretz-Israel and of the Zionist movement, are here assembled on the day of the termination of the British mandate over Eretz-Israel and, by virtue of our natural and historic right and on the strength of the resolution of the United Nations general assembly, hereby declare the establishment of a Jewish state<\/strong> in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the state of Israel.
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5.
\nWE DECLARE that, with effect from the moment of the termination of the Mandate being tonight, the eve of Sabbath, the 6th Iyar, 5708 (15th May, 1948), until the establishment of the elected, regular authorities of the State in accordance with the Constitution which shall be adopted by the Elected Constituent Assembly not later than the 1st October 1948, the People’s Council shall act as a Provisional Council of State, and its executive organ, the People’s Administration, shall be the Provisional Government of the Jewish State<\/strong>, to be called “Israel.<\/p>\n\n

Moreover, President Truman’s recogition statement which came a scant 11 minutes later makes it very clear the Israel is a Jewish state. Here are his words:<\/p>\n\n

\u201cThis Government has been informed that a Jewish State has been proclaimed in Palestine and recognition thereof has been requested by the provisional government thereof. The United States recognizes the de facto authority of the State of Israel.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n\n

So why are we fussing about explicitly demanding the Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish state? This seems to be quite unnecessary.<\/p>\n\n

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