The U.S. State Department in 1948 stated that the plan for dividing Palestine would require genocide.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
None of the provided sources mention the State Department describing the partition plan as requiring genocide. The closest sources show the U.S. abandoning partition in March 1948 because the plan could not be implemented by peaceful means, which is not the same statement, so the claim can be neither confirmed nor refuted from these sources.
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… Whether or not it could function without the Us. Is a is a different story. So Forrestal went to the Secretary of State, uh, Marshall, and said, "Let's bring this straight to Harry Truman." Um, and the State Department at the time said that the plan for dividing Palestine is impossible, that would it would require MA it would require genocide. But Farthest always identified by the various Jewish organizations as the main hindrance to the U.S. Backing of Zionism. …
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Context. The Truman Library and the Austin statement at the UN Security Council record that the U.S. judged partition could not be implemented by peaceful means and withdrew support on March 19, 1948.[1][2]
Context. The FRUS 1948 documents describe the U.S. as supporting partition as the best solution, with no reference to genocide in the passages provided.[3]
Context. No provided source contains the claimed State Department statement that partition would require genocide, so the central assertion is neither corroborated nor contradicted.[1][2][3]
Sources
3 sources: 3 primary
- 1Recognition of the State of Israel | Harry S. Trumantrumanlibrary.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 2United States Policy on Jerusalem, 1948scholarship.law.edu · primary source · cited for: context
- 3Historical Documents - Office of the Historian - State Departmenthistory.state.gov · primary source · cited for: context
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