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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

A birthday ...8:49 pm

Israel declared itself a nation on May 14th, 1948, and so this year marks the 60th anniversary of its founding. The New York Post marked this on Sunday with a special section of the newspaper.

Among the articles is a reprinting of the editorial which ran in that same newpaper on May 15th of 1948:

Birth of a Nation

Israel is reborn after 20 centuries.

First recognition of Israel as a de facto State has come from the United States of America. The new nation was formally inaugurated in Palestine at 6 p.m. yesterday. At 6:01 p.m., President Truman issued the proclamation extending recognition and expressing the hope that Israel would work fully with the United Nations Truce Commission for Palestinian peace.

At the same time, war was declared on the world’s newest democracy by Egypt, with Syria, Iraq, Transjordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Yemen proclaiming that “a state of war exists.”

Also notable is the story told by Dvora, a young passenger on a ship that came to be called Exodus, which carried thousands of holocaust survivors from France to Palestine in 1947, only to be stopped by the British and forced to go back not only to Europe but to Germany. There is a piece by Abby Wisse Schachter on the struggle for independence and also a nice piece on Golda Meir.

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