“By shouting for a Jewish state, Americans satisfy many motives,” Crossman complained. “They are attacking the Empire and British imperialism, they are espousing a moral cause, for whose fulfilment they will take no responsibility, and most important of all, they are diverting attention from the fact that their own immigration laws are the basic cause of the problem.” The American Zionists, he said, were “passionately anti-British and have organized nearly all the American Jews and all the Press.”[12] They also, according to Crossman, had the direct ear of Truman through his special adviser,
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