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A 5 page research paper that discusses and analyzes the main goals that guided US foreign policy toward the Palestinian-Israeli conflict during the Cold War, post-World War II years. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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to Palestine. While the Zionist movement began prior to World War II, it escalated afterward as survivor of the Holocaust immigrated to Palestine, intent on forming their own country. On
the other hand, Palestine was occupied by Arab families who had lived there for countless generations. Their claim is also grounded in history and it equally just. In 1947, the
UN intervened and partitioned Palestine, giving part to the new state of Israel and part to the Palestinians. At the close of WWII, the world looked to the United
States to take a leading role in dealing with the conflict between the emergent state of Israel and the rest of Palestine (Gerner 131). the US first became involved in
the Palestine controversy in the 1940s and American influence was instrumental in the passage of UN Resolution 181 in 1947, which created the state of Israel and partitioned Palestine between
the two groups. However, at this point the goals of US foreign policy toward the Middle East were still in the formative states and there was no clear policy toward
either Israel or the Palestinians (Gerner 131). Under the Eisenhower administration, this policy took more definitive form in the 1950 with the principal goals being "to protect the supply
of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Gerner 131). This focus on petroleum actually went back
to the 1930s when Roosevelt declared Saudi Arabia to be "vital to the defense of the United States" due to its enormous petroleum resources (Gerner 131). However, a principal and
guiding theme of US foreign policy in the Middle East was the perceived need to keep the influence of the Soviet Union out of the region (Gerner 131). Also
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