Why Israel is becoming a partisan cause in the United States
It goes to the essence of the Jewish state, and of the American one
The 75-year partnership between America and Israel stems partly from the friendship between just two men. After the first world war broke out, Edward Jacobson, a son of Lithuanian immigrants in Kansas City, Missouri, enlisted with an artillery unit and caught the attention of his lieutenant. “I have a Jew in charge of the canteen by the name of Jacobson and he is a crackerjack,” wrote the lieutenant, Harry Truman, to his fiancée.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Present at the creation”
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