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U.S. Presidents & Israel: A Blessing or a Cursing?

U.S. Presidents & Israel: A Blessing or a Cursing?. Woodrow Wilson: 1913 - 1921. Arthur James Balfour and Chaim Weizmann. The Balfour Declaration: November, 1917—Arthur James Balfour.

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U.S. Presidents & Israel: A Blessing or a Cursing?

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  1. U.S. Presidents & Israel: A Blessing or a Cursing?

  2. Woodrow Wilson: 1913 - 1921

  3. Arthur James Balfour and Chaim Weizmann

  4. The Balfour Declaration: November, 1917—Arthur James Balfour His Majesty's government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object. . . .

  5. WOODROW WILSON: First U.S. President to get behind Zionism “How proud I am that because of the teachings instilled in me by my father, it has been my privilege to restore the Holy Land to its rightful owners.”

  6. Louis D. Brandeis • Supreme Court 1916 • Served until 1939

  7. Warren G. Harding: 1921 - 1923

  8. Warren Harding & Immigration Emergency Quota Act of 1921 limited Jewish immigrants and turned Jews against him. Anti-Semitism was rising in the 1920s.

  9. Henry Ford: 1920

  10. Calvin Coolidge: 1923 - 1929

  11. Reed Johnson Act: 1924

  12. Herbert Hoover: 1929 - 1933

  13. “I have watched with genuine admiration the steady and unmistakable progress made in the rehabilitation of Palestine…”

  14. The Promised Land in Uganda?

  15. Aided Jews devastated by WWI and the pogroms • Supported Jewish State • Supported rescue of Jews from Holocaust

  16. Franklin D. Roosevelt: 1933 - 1945

  17. Jeremiah 16 warning • “Behold, I am going to send for many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they will fish for them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from the clefts of the rocks.”

  18. Exposed Roosevelt’s abandonment of the Jews: 1967

  19. In office one week and first concentration camp opened: Dachau

  20. May 1939: 900 German Jewish refugees sent home on St. Louis

  21. Yalta Conference: February, 1945

  22. What about bombing the railroads to the concentration camps? “Such an operation would in any case be of such doubtful efficacy that it would not warrant the use of our resources.” --Roosevelt spokesman

  23. Harry Truman: 1945 - 1953

  24. Sgt. “Eddie” Edward Jacobson

  25. ChaimWeitzmann & Harry Truman: 1947

  26. Truman on May 14, 1948: “One of the proudest days of my life occurred at 6:12 p.m. on Friday, May 14, 1948, when I was able to announce recognition of the new state of Israel by the government of the United States. In view of the long friendship of the American people for the Zionist ideal, it was particularly appropriate that our government should be the first to recognize the new state.”

  27. Truman’s burden: Jewish refugees—80,000 Jewish refugees entered U.S.

  28. War of Independence • U.S. State Department wanted no involvement. • U.S. would not arm the Jews.

  29. War of Independence: On their own • Air Force of 9 obsolete planes • Ben Gurion: We only have a 50-50 chance of survival.

  30. Dwight D. Eisenhower: 1953 - 1961

  31. Eisenhower years: • Called the coldest years in Israel-U.S. history including the Carter years. • Israel’s socialism bothered Eisenhower. • The Arabs offered “containment” of Communism.

  32. John Foster Dulles “The Israeli embassy is practically dictating to Congress through influential Jewish people in America.” “Jewish influence dominates the scene…”

  33. February 2, 1957 • Eisenhower joined with 75 other nations in the UN General Assembly in passing a resolution "deploring" Israel's occupationof Sinai.

  34. John F. Kennedy: 1961 - 1963

  35. Joseph Kennedy

  36. March, 1956: Sen. John Kennedy: “It is time that the nations of the world, in the Middle East and elsewhere, realize that Israel is here to stay; she will not surrender, she will not retreat, and we will not let her fall.”

  37. John Kennedy & Golda Meir

  38. Israel’s friend: Robert Kennedy

  39. Kennedy’s Focus: Gamal Abdel Nasser

  40. John F. Kennedy Memorial, Jerusalem

  41. Lyndon B. Johnson: 1963 - 1969

  42. LBJ’s Grandfather: “Take care of the Jews, God’s chosen people. Consider them your friends and help them any way you can.”

  43. 1945: Dachau • Shaken • Stunned • Bursting with overpowering revulsion and incredulous horror

  44. A Righteous Gentile Lady Bird: “Person after person plucked at my sleeve and said, ‘I wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for Lyndon Johnson. He helped me out of Europe.’”

  45. Johnson & the Six Day War: Neutrality The war could have been avoided if America and NATO had warned Egypt and Syria against aggression.

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