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During the violence Israel has been experiencing from Hamas, it s important to remember why Israel was founded in the first place. This can serve as a reminder or even inform people for the first time why we support the right for one of our greatest allies to exist and protect itself. Israel is also the only democracy in the Middle East and has the highest standard of living there, along with many other accomplishments in world rankings. This includes its success in lessening COVID rates and in vaccines.
The state of Israel was proclaimed almost 73 years ago to the day, on May 14, 1948. Claims to their homeland have existed since Biblical times. President Harry Truman acknowledged its existence that very same day. The National Archives provides some of those original documents, such as the telegram from Secretary of State George Marshall to Ambassador Douglas in London that we were acknowledging Israel, a press release on the de facto re
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