Without Stalin, There Might Be No Israel

I would guess that most people are unaware of the role that Stalin and the Soviet Union played in the creation of Israel. Stalin thought that Israel was going to be a socialist country, and so he supported the Zionists for a few years until he found out how wrong he was. The USA did not begin to give massive support to Israel until after the 1967 war. The 1947-48 war occurred in two distinct phases. The first stage largely ended in a stalemate, and a ceasefire was negotiated. The ceasefire specified that no weapons were to be imported to Palestine. But the Zionist army ignored that. Stalin sent them arms via then Czechoslavakia. Once the Zionists had overwhelming military superiority, they again violated the ceasefire and launched the second phase and expanded their territory from the 54 percent given them by the United Nations (at a time when Jews were only about one-third of the population and owned a much smaller percentage of the land) to the 78 percent they controlled when they declared the state of Israel in 1948. They used the arms not so much to fight the ill-equipped Arab armies as to drive about 800,000 Palestinians from their homes in what became Israel. They massacred entire villages. In others, they killed the men and raped the women. Without the weapons Stalin sent them, they probably could not have done all this. History is worth remembering.