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Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. He declined David Ben-Gurion's offer to send Israeli troops to fight alongside United Nations forces in South Korea, reportedly fearing it would back him into a security arrangement with Israel.1

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  1. Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 2. ↩︎