Playing with Dynamite: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Palestine, 1945-1948
Journal: University of New Hampshire Scholars Repository (University of New Hampshire at Manchester)
Year: 2017

This thesis seeks to explain the motivations for United States Government actions regarding Palestine from 1945 to 1948. The conclusion, based upon accumulated primary research and secondary sources, is that the United States government involved itself Palestinian conflict for humanitarian reasons and was then unable to extract itself from the conflict due to Cold War considerations. The United States did not seek a solution to the Arab-Zionist quandary itself, which would have involved directly