I recommend the Wikipedia article on history of Israel from which the following quotation is taken to the Secretary of State who seems not to know whats going on: On May 14, 1948, the last British forces left through Haifa. The same day, in a public ceremony in Tel-Aviv, Ben-Gurion read the Israeli Declaration of Independence, declaring the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.[108] Both superpower leaders, U.S. President Harry S. Truman and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, immediately recognized the new state.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:57:06 +0000