Why did the Departments of State and Defense oppose immediate U.S. recognition of Israel in 1948?

a. Recognition might endanger U.S. relations with oil-rich Arab states.
b. Israel had occupied a larger share of Palestine than recommended in the UN partition plan.
c. Great Britain’s Balfour Declaration had recommended against establishing a Jewish state.
d. The territory of Israel included the West Bank of the Jordan River.


a. Recognition might endanger U.S. relations with oil-rich Arab states.

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