LEADER 05286nam 2200733 450 001 9910797755903321 005 20240210015813.0 010 $a023152658X 024 7 $a10.7312/gend15288 035 $a(CKB)3710000000513459 035 $a(EBL)4012151 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001530047 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12628795 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001530047 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11524629 035 $a(PQKB)10460553 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4012151 035 $a(DE-B1597)458330 035 $a(OCoLC)927160412 035 $a(OCoLC)979720927 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231526586 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4012151 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11210280 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL845244 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000513459 100 $a20160525h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|||||u||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDying to forget $eoil, power, Palestine, and the foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East /$fIrene L. Gendzie 210 1$aNew York, [New York] :$cColumbia University Press,$d2015. 210 4$d©2015 215 $a1 online resource (xxii, 408 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-231-15289-2 311 $a0-231-15288-4 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tPart I. The Petroleum Order and the Palestine Question, 1945-1946 --$t1. The Primacy of Oil --$t2. The Palestine Question: 1945 --$tPart II. The Question of Partition and the Oil Connection, 1947-1948 --$t3. The Critical Year: 1947 --$t4. The Winter of Discontent: 1948 --$t5. The Oil Connection --$tPart III. Beware "Anomalous Situation," 1948 --$t6. The Transformation of Palestine --$t7. Truce and Trusteeship --$t8. Recognition and Response --$tPart IV. Rethinking U.S. Policy in Palestine/Israel, 1948 --$t9. Reconsidering U.S. Policy in Palestine --$t10. The Palestine Refugee Problem --$t11. The State Department on the Record --$tPart V. The End as the Beginning, 1948-49 --$t12. The PCC, Armistice, Lausanne, and Palestinian Refugees --$t13. The View from the Pentagon and the National Security Council --$t14. The Israeli-U.S. Oil Connection and Expanding U.S. Oil Interests --$tPart VI. In Place of a Conclusion --$tReflections on Discovery, Denial, and Deferral --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aIrene L. Gendzier presents incontrovertible evidence that oil politics played a significant role in the founding of Israel, the policy then adopted by the United States toward Palestinians, and subsequent U.S. involvement in the region. Consulting declassified U.S. government sources, as well as papers in the H.S. Truman Library, she uncovers little-known features of U.S. involvement in the region, including significant exchanges in the winter and spring of 1948 between the director of the Oil and Gas Division of the Interior Department and the representative of the Jewish Agency in the United States, months before Israel's independence and recognition by President Truman. Gendzier also shows that U.S. consuls and representatives abroad informed State Department officials, including the Secretary of State and the President, of the deleterious consequences of partition in Palestine. Yet the attempt to reconsider partition and replace it with a UN trusteeship for Palestine failed, jettisoned by Israel's declaration of independence. The results altered the regional balance of power and Washington's calculations of policy toward the new state. Prior to that, Gendzier reveals the U.S. endorsed the repatriation of Palestinian refugees in accord with UNGA Res 194 of Dec. 11, 1948, in addition to the resolution of territorial claims, the definition of boundaries, and the internationalization of Jerusalem. But U.S. interests in the Middle East, notably the protection of American oil interests, led U.S. officials to rethink Israel's military potential as a strategic ally. Washington then deferred to Israel with respect to the repatriation of Palestinian refugees, the question of boundaries, and the fate of Jerusalem-issues that U.S. officials have come to realize are central to the 1948 conflict and its aftermath. 606 $aPalestine question (To 1948) 606 $aPalestine question (1948-) 606 $3(DE-601)10438896X$3(DE-588)4003846-4$aAußenpolitik$2gnd 606 $3(DE-601)104826290$3(DE-588)4041158-8$aNahostkonflikt$2gnd 606 $3(DE-601)105639079$3(DE-588)4138921-9$aVorgeschichte$2gnd 606 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern$2bisacsh 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1945-1953 607 $aMiddle East$xForeign relations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zMiddle East 615 0$aPalestine question (To 1948) 615 0$aPalestine question (1948-) 615 7$aAußenpolitik 615 7$aNahostkonflikt 615 7$aVorgeschichte 615 7$aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern. 676 $a327.7305609/044 700 $aGendzier$b Irene L.$0540824 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797755903321 996 $aDying to forget$93852089 997 $aUNINA