Truman said a lot of Jewish people were against the arrangement because they wanted to drive all the Arabs into the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The Zionists, he said made it plain from the outset that they wanted the whole of Palestine. They were the “Chosen People “ and expected the Palestinians to move out of their way. Gee, nothing has changed.
As a historian (AHA, M.Sc. American History) and screenwriter (WGGB), I've written a screenplay on President Harry S. Truman, which just placed as a quarterfinalist and semifinalist in the 2026 Period Piece Screenwriting Contest. In recent years, I've have read a great deal about this one "chapter" of Truman's presidency: Israel & Palestine. I've read about the Zionist movement, from Theodor Herzl to Chaim Weizmann.
I'm a Catholic who has lived in an Episcopalian/Anglican convent, who has sung for years in his mother/grandparents' Methodist Church choir, who has attended the Scottish Presbyterian Church for years while living in the UK, who attends his Jewish friend's Passover Seders, and sweat lodges with Cherokee in the wilds of Kentucky. I listen to a lot of people of different faiths. Diversity is what makes us stronger.
To your point, when once conversing about the 1940s Zionist movement with a longtime Jewish friend of mine of 20 years, he told me that his late grandfather, a refugee who escaped Nazi Germany during WWII and fled to the United States, was an ardent Zionist. "Yeah, he passionately believed that", my friend told me, that his grandfather ardently felt Jewish peoples had a right to live in a separate country-state in the ancient Holy Lands, of what was, in the late 1940s, Palestine.
There are demographics of peoples all around the world who have been persecuted wrongly for millennia, and for all myriad of reasons. Humankind has an awful, despicable tendency to hurt and harm our fellow neighbors. In the final analysis, violence is a disgraceful, evil stain upon the story of our human race. ––And even worse, that we've not been able to stop this vile habit. As I always say:
"When redressing the wrongs done unto one people, by inflicting new sufferings upon another, is justice truly served, or violence merely exchanged, one injury for the other?" ~ Ryan Vallo
Hi Ahmed. Excellent piece and I love the video. I don’t know whether there’s an example of a country in modern times who was forced to give up more than half its land to foreigners, in this case, violent, psychopathic foreigners, and made such an occupation work. Occupation never works and a group of people who claim to be extraordinarily smart should have realized this long ago. And what does that say about Americans who blindly provide the money and weapons to wipe out an entire nation of peace loving Palestinians and build a Gazan riviera to fulfill the vision of an insane U.S. president?
Truman had a lot of street smarts as a politician, but unfortunately, no foreign policy experience at a major crossroads in American history. Hard liners toward the Soviets had already taken over the Democratic convention and replaced Henry Wallace as the VP candidate for FDR's 4th term in office. FDR was determined to pursue peace through the establishment of the UN. which took a much different form after his sudden death upon Truman's accession to office.
Truman had come under the influence of the Dulles brothers who were, in turn, creatures of UK policy(both foreign & domestic). Under his administration, the US became a virtual vassal of "the Empire", both through the Federal Reserve and foreign policy goals.
The tragic transition is told in two well documented books, Roosevelt&Stalin (Susan Butler) and The Devil's Chessboard ( David Talbot). Stalin evidently believed FDR was poisoned by the British. The Dulles brothers effectively ran US foreign policy up till the brief interlude of the Kennedy administration( JFK fired Allen Dulles as CIA chief after the bay of Pigs fiasco but paid the consequences with his life). Despite some efforts to assert authority, both Truman and Eisenhower( his successor) were intimidated by the growing power of the Deep State. Yet, history would, no doubt, have taken a much different turn had FDR lived or had Henry Wallace succeeded him instead of Truman.
Yes, President Harry S. Truman was a dedicated Master Mason and one of the most active Freemasons in U.S. presidential history. He held numerous leadership positions within the fraternity, even serving as the Grand Master of Masons in Missouri.
RIGHT.
In 1952, Truman authorized Operation PBFORTUNE, an early covert plan intended to support a disgruntled general in an attempt to overthrow the Guatemalan government.
The Truman administration used overt and covert interventions in foreign elections to prevent communist parties from gaining power, such as the 1948 elections in Italy.
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Fucking looney POTUS:
Stimson read this to Truman. It would appear to give clear information about the planned bombing. But careful and informed readers will immediately see the problem: It is only the schedule of the “tested type” of atomic bomb, which is to say, the plutonium-fueled implosion design that had been detonated at Trinity. There was another atomic bomb design, the gun-type, uranium-fueled design (Little Boy) that was considered such a sure-thing that it did not require being tested. Truman had been told that there were two types of bombs being developed back in April 1945, but by the summer of 1945 all discussions of the atomic bomb treated it as a singular object (“the atomic bomb”), and the operational details focused on the first combat use of the bomb. It appears entirely possible that Truman did not understand that there would be two atomic bombs in early August, with a second plutonium bomb ready a few weeks later.
The only formal “strike order” on the atomic bomb was drafted by General Groves on July 24, and approved by Secretary Stimson and Chief of Staff George Marshall on July 25 (and not Truman). It is not clear that Truman himself ever saw it directly prior to it being issued, but if he had, it would hardly clarify the issue. The first part of the order specified that the “first special bomb” could be dropped “as soon as weather will permit visual bombing after about 3 August 1945 on one of the targets: Hiroshima, Kokura, Niigata and Nagasaki.” The only reference to the fact that there would be more to come was in its broad second part: “Additional bombs will be delivered on the above targets as soon as made ready by the project staff. Further instructions will be issued concerning targets other than those listed above.
It was always about stealing the land from its people. Palestinians have rights.
Truman said a lot of Jewish people were against the arrangement because they wanted to drive all the Arabs into the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The Zionists, he said made it plain from the outset that they wanted the whole of Palestine. They were the “Chosen People “ and expected the Palestinians to move out of their way. Gee, nothing has changed.
As a historian (AHA, M.Sc. American History) and screenwriter (WGGB), I've written a screenplay on President Harry S. Truman, which just placed as a quarterfinalist and semifinalist in the 2026 Period Piece Screenwriting Contest. In recent years, I've have read a great deal about this one "chapter" of Truman's presidency: Israel & Palestine. I've read about the Zionist movement, from Theodor Herzl to Chaim Weizmann.
I'm a Catholic who has lived in an Episcopalian/Anglican convent, who has sung for years in his mother/grandparents' Methodist Church choir, who has attended the Scottish Presbyterian Church for years while living in the UK, who attends his Jewish friend's Passover Seders, and sweat lodges with Cherokee in the wilds of Kentucky. I listen to a lot of people of different faiths. Diversity is what makes us stronger.
To your point, when once conversing about the 1940s Zionist movement with a longtime Jewish friend of mine of 20 years, he told me that his late grandfather, a refugee who escaped Nazi Germany during WWII and fled to the United States, was an ardent Zionist. "Yeah, he passionately believed that", my friend told me, that his grandfather ardently felt Jewish peoples had a right to live in a separate country-state in the ancient Holy Lands, of what was, in the late 1940s, Palestine.
There are demographics of peoples all around the world who have been persecuted wrongly for millennia, and for all myriad of reasons. Humankind has an awful, despicable tendency to hurt and harm our fellow neighbors. In the final analysis, violence is a disgraceful, evil stain upon the story of our human race. ––And even worse, that we've not been able to stop this vile habit. As I always say:
"When redressing the wrongs done unto one people, by inflicting new sufferings upon another, is justice truly served, or violence merely exchanged, one injury for the other?" ~ Ryan Vallo
Hi Ahmed. Excellent piece and I love the video. I don’t know whether there’s an example of a country in modern times who was forced to give up more than half its land to foreigners, in this case, violent, psychopathic foreigners, and made such an occupation work. Occupation never works and a group of people who claim to be extraordinarily smart should have realized this long ago. And what does that say about Americans who blindly provide the money and weapons to wipe out an entire nation of peace loving Palestinians and build a Gazan riviera to fulfill the vision of an insane U.S. president?
Truman had a lot of street smarts as a politician, but unfortunately, no foreign policy experience at a major crossroads in American history. Hard liners toward the Soviets had already taken over the Democratic convention and replaced Henry Wallace as the VP candidate for FDR's 4th term in office. FDR was determined to pursue peace through the establishment of the UN. which took a much different form after his sudden death upon Truman's accession to office.
Truman had come under the influence of the Dulles brothers who were, in turn, creatures of UK policy(both foreign & domestic). Under his administration, the US became a virtual vassal of "the Empire", both through the Federal Reserve and foreign policy goals.
The tragic transition is told in two well documented books, Roosevelt&Stalin (Susan Butler) and The Devil's Chessboard ( David Talbot). Stalin evidently believed FDR was poisoned by the British. The Dulles brothers effectively ran US foreign policy up till the brief interlude of the Kennedy administration( JFK fired Allen Dulles as CIA chief after the bay of Pigs fiasco but paid the consequences with his life). Despite some efforts to assert authority, both Truman and Eisenhower( his successor) were intimidated by the growing power of the Deep State. Yet, history would, no doubt, have taken a much different turn had FDR lived or had Henry Wallace succeeded him instead of Truman.
Yes, President Harry S. Truman was a dedicated Master Mason and one of the most active Freemasons in U.S. presidential history. He held numerous leadership positions within the fraternity, even serving as the Grand Master of Masons in Missouri.
RIGHT.
In 1952, Truman authorized Operation PBFORTUNE, an early covert plan intended to support a disgruntled general in an attempt to overthrow the Guatemalan government.
The Truman administration used overt and covert interventions in foreign elections to prevent communist parties from gaining power, such as the 1948 elections in Italy.
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Fucking looney POTUS:
Stimson read this to Truman. It would appear to give clear information about the planned bombing. But careful and informed readers will immediately see the problem: It is only the schedule of the “tested type” of atomic bomb, which is to say, the plutonium-fueled implosion design that had been detonated at Trinity. There was another atomic bomb design, the gun-type, uranium-fueled design (Little Boy) that was considered such a sure-thing that it did not require being tested. Truman had been told that there were two types of bombs being developed back in April 1945, but by the summer of 1945 all discussions of the atomic bomb treated it as a singular object (“the atomic bomb”), and the operational details focused on the first combat use of the bomb. It appears entirely possible that Truman did not understand that there would be two atomic bombs in early August, with a second plutonium bomb ready a few weeks later.
The only formal “strike order” on the atomic bomb was drafted by General Groves on July 24, and approved by Secretary Stimson and Chief of Staff George Marshall on July 25 (and not Truman). It is not clear that Truman himself ever saw it directly prior to it being issued, but if he had, it would hardly clarify the issue. The first part of the order specified that the “first special bomb” could be dropped “as soon as weather will permit visual bombing after about 3 August 1945 on one of the targets: Hiroshima, Kokura, Niigata and Nagasaki.” The only reference to the fact that there would be more to come was in its broad second part: “Additional bombs will be delivered on the above targets as soon as made ready by the project staff. Further instructions will be issued concerning targets other than those listed above.
Ahmed, I am so glad you are released, and I pray you are well. Thank you for this excellent analysis.