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33rd U.S. President who declined Israeli military offers during the Korean War, reportedly fearing a binding security arrangement with Israel. | 1884-05-08 | 1972-12-26 | Lamar, Missouri |
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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Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 2. ↩︎