--- Michael Givel <mgivel at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Interesting little tidbit from history. Stalin for
> a short time was
> pro-Zionist thinking the state of Israel would be a
> socialist outpost in the
> Middle East. Evidently, Soviet/Stalinist propaganda
> against Zionism
> started a short time later when it was in the UUSR's
> national interest to
> support various Arab states. Bottom line: seems that
> the Soviets had no
> problem calling
> Israel socialist at one point in time and Zionism
> meant not too much to
> them.
>
>
>
>
>
http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Israel_and_the_United_Nations
>
> Soviet influence
>
> Political Zionism was officially stamped out for the
> entire history of the Soviet Union as a form of
> bourgeois nationalism.
> Without changing its official anti-Zionist stance,
> the USSR briefly
> supported the establishment of Israel in 1947.
> Before voting for the
> 1947 partition, Andrei Gromyko stated:
>
> As we know, the aspirations of a considerable part
> of the Jewish people
> are linked with the problem of Palestine and of its
> future
> administration. This fact scarcely requires proof...
> The United Nations
> cannot and must not regard this situation with
> indifference, since this
> would be incompatible with the high principles
> proclaimed in its
> Charter ... From late 1944 until 1948, Stalin had
> adopted a de facto
> pro-Zionist foreign policy, apparently believing
> that the new country
> would be socialist and would speed the decline of
> British influence in
> the Middle East. Three days after Israel declared
> independence, the
> Soviet Union legally recognized it. However, by the
> end of 1948 and
> throughout the course of the Cold War, the Soviet
> Union unequivocally
> supported various Arab regimes against Israel. The
> official position of
> the Soviet Union and its satellite states and
> agencies was that Zionism
> was a tool used by the Jews and Americans for
> "racist imperialism".
>
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