The Soviet Union executed an apparent about-face in its
traditional anti-Zionist position when the Palestine issue came
before the United Nations in 1947. In addition to political support
at the UN from May 1947 to May 1949, important military assistance
was rendered to the Jewish Palestinian Yishuv throughout 1948 by
the Eastern bloc. Toward the end of that year, however, indications
of change became apparent, and the Soviet Union began criticizing
Israel.
This book studies the USSR's attitude toward the establishment
of a Jewish state in Palestine in the immediate post-World War II
period and toward Israel in the first years of its existence, and
it investigates the complex of considerations that caused the
initial apparent reversal of traditional Soviet anti-Zionism. The
author contends that this support for Israel contributed
considerably to the evoking of Soviet Jewry's enthusiastic reaction
to the establishment of the State. But this very reaction resulted
in turn in Moscow changing its tactics again, since it could not
allow its Jewish citizens to identify with a state outside the
Soviet Union and the Communist orbit.
During the few years after the Israeli War for Independence, in
which the Arab-Israeli conflict was relatively low key, the USSR
adopted a position of seeming neutrality between two sides--while
quietly wooing the Arab nations. Ro'i examines how toward the end
of the Stalin period the Jewish problem again intervened with the
infamous' 'Doctor's Plot," and how early in 1953 the Soviet Union
severed diplomatic relations with Israel. One year later the USSR
cast its first two pro-Arab vetoes in the UN Security Council, and
from this point on Soviet-Israeli relations openly became a
function of the increasingly cordial Soviet friendship with the
Arab world.
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