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The creation of the State of Israel inexorably resulted from key international developments: the Zionist movement; the Balfour Declaration; the Holocaust and resultant waves of European Jewish refugees; the liquidation of the British Empire following World War II; and the growing importance of the United States in world affairs. In this book Zvi Ganin focuses on the fateful role of Harry S. Truman and American Jewry in the final acts preceding the restoration of Jewish sovereignty over Palestine.