Tag: Harry Truman
Netanyahu Affiliated Reporter: Expect 2nd Balfour Declaration
The administration has been sending messages to the visiting Israelis that it is preferable to carry out the annexation moves in the near future.
The Obama Administration’s Stealth Anti-Israel Rhetoric
While the Obama administration has moaned about Palestinians taking “unhelpful” steps, their “scolding” has not approached the criticism that has been leveled at the Jewish State.
John Judis’s Truman Book Backs my Theory
As president, Truman initially opposed the creation of a Jewish state.
Ranking The Presidents
The Dec. 29 front-page essay on Harry Truman by this modest scrivener continues to generate a heartening response – and not just from Jewish Press readers, as the piece was featured on FrontPageMag.com and reprinted by the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle in Truman’s home state of Missouri.
Letters To The Editor
Truman's Anti-Israel Policies Jason Maoz is correct that Harry Truman was a most "ambiguous" friend, and not just because of his anti-Semitic diatribes ("Harry...
Not Your Typical Summer Reading List
Not exactly light beach reads, the following books on American presidents deal with Mideast issues in an extended and intelligent manner. These are not necessarily the best all-around biographies or studies of the individual presidents listed (though some rank right up there), but the strongest in terms of exploring presidential attitudes and policies toward Israel.
Truman Diaries Expose Toothless Watchdog
The Monitor really hadn't planned on writing once again about Harry Truman.
Bush, Jews And Democrats (Part III)
The presidential election of 1928 is seen by most political historians as something of a demarcation line in the history of Jewish voting loyalties.
It was in that election that the Democrats first began polling landslide numbers among American Jews, as New York governor Al Smith, a Roman Catholic of immigrant stock (whose campaign manager happened to be Jewish) captured 72 percent of the Jewish vote.
