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The previous chapter demonstrated how Cold War strategic interests influenced the policies of both Britain and the US towards the question of Palestine between 1945 and 1948. It showed that despite there being a general agreement on the importance of maintaining Arab goodwill and preventing the Soviet Union from exploiting the void left by Britain’s withdrawal from the region, there was neither a unified nor a coordinated policy approach towards the future of Palestine. In fact, there were major disagreements which put great strain on the transatlantic alliance. When UN General Assembly Resolution 181 calling for the partition of Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state was tabled on 29 November 1947, Britain and the US voted differently. The latter voted favourably alongside the Soviets; the former abstained.
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See, Cary David Stanger, ‘A Haunting Legacy: The Assassination of Count Bernadotte’, Middle East Journal, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Spring 1988), pp. 260–72; Heller, Stern Gang: Ideology, Politics, and Terror, pp. 239–55; Bell, Terror Out of Zion, pp. 335–40; It was also a message to the international community that the UN could not interfere in Israeli affairs, Kurzman, Genesis 1948, p. 622; Bernadotte was also considered a pawn of Britain, Bell, Ter ro r Out of Zion, p. 330;
Yitzhak Shamir, Summing Up: An Autobiography (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994), pp. 74–76.
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Waldman, S.A. (2015). Friends Reunited? Britain and the US Respond to the Palestinian Refugee Problem. In: Anglo-American Diplomacy and the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1948–51. Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137431523_3
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