The Americans refused to commit to boots on the ground to enforce the plan and rejected joint trusteeship with Britain. By the end of negotiations over the Morrison-Grady plan, even Truman was exhausted by the Zionist lobby, who berated him for co-creating a “ghetto” in Palestine, an insult he took seriously given Jewish voting power, real and perceived. “Jesus Christ couldn’t please them when he was here on earth,” he told his cabinet, “so how could anyone expect I would have any luck?”[15]
