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Short Clip: President Truman explaining Nakba in plain English and Americans' role in making it possible in 50 seconds. Pay attention how talks as if he was the Colonial Secretary, as if anything changed to this date |
50 sec President Truman Here is the clip's transcript too: "We had several other people in the country, even among the Jews the Zionists who were against anything that has to be done if they could not have the whole of Palestine, and everything handed to them on a silver plate so they wouldn't have to do anything. It couldn't be done. We had to take it [referring to Palestine] in small doses..you can’t move 5 or 6 million people out of a country and fill it up with 5 or 6 million more and expect both sets of them to be pleased...but don't think that this decision to recognize Israel was an easy one. I had to make a compromise with the Arabs and divide Palestine. [Zionist] Jews want to chase all the Arabs in the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, and the Arabs want to chase the [Zionist] Jews into the Red Sea. What I was trying to do is to find a homeland for the Jews and still be just for the Arabs." |
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