Early on, the U.S. had developed a "well-organized pro-Israel constituency thus becoming a major player in the creation as well as the keeping of the state of Israel. In the early 1940s President Franklin Roosevelt declared that "no decision altering the basic situation of Palestine should be reached without full consultation with both Arabs and Jews. No matter how vague, this statement was the first of its kind that officially stated a policy and even a role in the conflict between the current Palestine and the future Israel. Later in 1947 during the Truman administration, the U.S. began the creation of Israel by helping to pass the partition resolution and then became the first country to recognize Israel as a legitimate state. One theory has been developed by Stork that the U.
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had developed a "well-organized pro-Israel constituency thus becoming a major player in the creation as well as the keeping of the state of Israel. In the early 1940s President Franklin Roosevelt declared that "no decision altering the basic situation of Palestine should be reached without full consultation with both Arabs and Jews. No matter how vague, this statement was the first of its kind that officially stated a policy and even a role in the conflict between the current Palestine and the future Israel. Later in 1947 during the Truman administration, the U.S. began the creation of Israel by helping to pass the partition resolution and then became the first country to recognize Israel as a legitimate state. One theory has been developed by Stork that the