Did President Truman Stay Out of the 1948 War Due to Pluralism or the Power Elite Theory
Some say that the reason President Truman didn't support Israel during the 1948 Israeli-Arab Conflict was due to America being a pluralistic country.
Others say it was due to America being a power Elite country.
The following are two explanations of Truman's actions.
One explanation argues his actions was due to America being a pluralistic country.
The other argues his actions were due to America being a power elite country.
Due to the Cold War Truman tried to maintain access to petroleum resources, military bases, and lines of communication in the Middle East and to deny these assets to the Soviet Union.
Due to the Cold War, and his support of Israel he sought to promote peace in the region, and to sustain governments supportive of Western political objectives.
Truman believed that continued conflict between Israel, and its main enemies, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, would cause Arab Nationalism which in turn would cause Arab neutrality in the Cold War, and economic problems for America.
It would also be harmful to Israel seeing how in the Independence War it lost nearly one percent of its Jewish population.
He thought that if the Arab world adopted neutrality towards the Cold War it would harm America's interests.
Therefore, after the war America tried to promote peace by brokering some of the Armistice Agreements between Israel, and its enemies, and also by becoming an enforcer of the Armistice Agreements.
Americans supported a Jewish State, but at the same time they were equally against the Soviet Union.
Truman listened to the public, and acted accordingly by treating the Arabs and the Jews the same.
Therefore, this adds on to the theory that America is a pluralistic country.
He did not give financial or military support to Israel during the 1948 War since this would make the Arabs turn their backs to America and towards the Soviet Union.
The absence of help to the Arabs during the 1948 War could be explained by his support towards Israel.
This is more evidence that America is a pluralistic country because the American people were overwhelmingly Pro-Israel in this situation, and so was the Administration.
This paragraph will show an alternative to pluralism again.
It will be on why America did not support Israel according to the power elite theory's mechanism of elites applying direct political control over state institutions because of the mass media.
During the time of that war the mass media was reflecting the growing anti- communist political environment.
Since the media was a reflection of the political environment one must take into account that although the government was against communism the fact that the mass media and these elites had such strong support for these terrorist groups, and that the public was much less anti-communist because the cold war just started and they were not as scared since America was stunned to find out the U.
S.
S.
R.
got a nuclear weapon in 1949 that the media was about equal in giving importance to the Soviet issue, and Israel's security during the Israeli War of Independence.
This theory can be exacerbated by the amount of anti-McCarthyism in the next decade and that the public nearly always viewed the economy more important than the red scare even though they had a good economy most of the time.
The media was also still very much pro- Israel.
Others say it was due to America being a power Elite country.
The following are two explanations of Truman's actions.
One explanation argues his actions was due to America being a pluralistic country.
The other argues his actions were due to America being a power elite country.
Due to the Cold War Truman tried to maintain access to petroleum resources, military bases, and lines of communication in the Middle East and to deny these assets to the Soviet Union.
Due to the Cold War, and his support of Israel he sought to promote peace in the region, and to sustain governments supportive of Western political objectives.
Truman believed that continued conflict between Israel, and its main enemies, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, would cause Arab Nationalism which in turn would cause Arab neutrality in the Cold War, and economic problems for America.
It would also be harmful to Israel seeing how in the Independence War it lost nearly one percent of its Jewish population.
He thought that if the Arab world adopted neutrality towards the Cold War it would harm America's interests.
Therefore, after the war America tried to promote peace by brokering some of the Armistice Agreements between Israel, and its enemies, and also by becoming an enforcer of the Armistice Agreements.
Americans supported a Jewish State, but at the same time they were equally against the Soviet Union.
Truman listened to the public, and acted accordingly by treating the Arabs and the Jews the same.
Therefore, this adds on to the theory that America is a pluralistic country.
He did not give financial or military support to Israel during the 1948 War since this would make the Arabs turn their backs to America and towards the Soviet Union.
The absence of help to the Arabs during the 1948 War could be explained by his support towards Israel.
This is more evidence that America is a pluralistic country because the American people were overwhelmingly Pro-Israel in this situation, and so was the Administration.
This paragraph will show an alternative to pluralism again.
It will be on why America did not support Israel according to the power elite theory's mechanism of elites applying direct political control over state institutions because of the mass media.
During the time of that war the mass media was reflecting the growing anti- communist political environment.
Since the media was a reflection of the political environment one must take into account that although the government was against communism the fact that the mass media and these elites had such strong support for these terrorist groups, and that the public was much less anti-communist because the cold war just started and they were not as scared since America was stunned to find out the U.
S.
S.
R.
got a nuclear weapon in 1949 that the media was about equal in giving importance to the Soviet issue, and Israel's security during the Israeli War of Independence.
This theory can be exacerbated by the amount of anti-McCarthyism in the next decade and that the public nearly always viewed the economy more important than the red scare even though they had a good economy most of the time.
The media was also still very much pro- Israel.
