The Forgotten Friendship: Israel And The Soviet Bloc, 1947-53
by Arnold Krammer /
1970 / English / PDF
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In May, 1947, after supporting the Arabs for thirty years, the Soviet Union astonished the diplomatic world by endorsing the Zionist aspirations for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. This opened a remarkable two-year period of Soviet-Zionist cooperation, during which Russia supplied Israel with considerable military aid.