No US recognition of Israel in 1948?

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Apparently there was a fair bit of hostility toward Truman's recognition of Israel within the US government at the time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–United_States_relations#Recognition_of_the_state_of_Israel
What if Truman bowed to the anti-recognition opinions in the government and opted out of recognition in 1948? How long would it take for recognition to happen and would it have any effect on the nascent state?

Recognition would probably happen a little later, like it did with most other countries. This might drive the Israelis a little closer to the Soviet camp, but I'm not very certain about that.
 
Well, for one thing, Truman would lose enough votes in California, Illinois, and Ohio to give the election to Dewey. http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/u/usa/pres/1948.txt

(As it was, despite the de facto recognition, Truman lost some Jewish votes because of his failure to recognize Israel *de jure* and because of the arms embargo. In particular, the Progressives criticized Truman for his vacillations on Palestine, which they blamed on his supposed subservience to Big Oil. While some of the Jewish vote for Wallace was from leftists who would have supported Wallace anyway, Samuel Lubell and others have argued that some non-leftists also voted for Wallace because of the Palestine issue.)
 
Recognition would probably happen a little later, like it did with most other countries. This might drive the Israelis a little closer to the Soviet camp, but I'm not very certain about that.

Considering how the Soviets will treat its Jews, I'm doubtful.
 
Prior to 1953 Stalin was pro-Zionist and the USSR was the FIRST to recognize de jure Israel independence.

It is true that Stalin was pro-Zionist when Israel declared its independence in 1948 but he quickly had second thoughts, especially after Golda Meier got a rapturous reception at a Moscow synagogue on Rosh Hashanah later that year... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golda_Meir#/media/File:Golda_Meir_Moscow_1948.jpg

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/heritage/episode9/documents/documents_11.html

Admittedly, warning Soviet Jews not to be seduced by Zionism (as Ilya Ehrenberg had already done in Pravda on September 21, 1948) did not necessarily dictate an anti-Israeli foreign policy, but by 1950 Stalin was clearly hostile to Israel as well as Zionism. He had originally supported the creation of Israel because it would help to diminish British influence in the Middle East, but now he saw it as a under American influence, which was at least as bad.
 
don't forget that the Czechs were providing active assistance (selling aircraft and weapons) in 1947-48, with apparent support from the Soviets, and the Soviet controlled part of Eastern Europe was all but encouraging the Jews to head to Palestine

But really the biggest factor for US recognition is the Holocaust, and internal pressure from liberal voters in the US to do something for the Jews.

While the State Department was against it, that was not necessarily a selling point for Truman, as even though Marshal was his Secretary of State, Truman had a lot of distrust regarding the Ivy League types running Foggy Bottom.

Also, the US was the biggest exporter of oil in the world, so the Arab sensibilities are not a big issue for the US at the time.

So the decision was difficult, but not as difficult as it could have been (say 10 years later).

Not recognizing Israel might have cost him the 1948 election which he won by the narrowest of margins
 
Considering how the Soviets will treat its Jews, I'm doubtful.

Perhaps, though it's likely that the Soviets would have treated their Jews differently if they were friendly with Israel. Plus, the Israeli leadership didn't think much of Russian Jews for the most part ("If they were worth anything, they would have left Russia and come here years ago" encapsulating much of the feeling), and I think you vastly underestimate the power of Socialism in early Israel. There was an openly Stalinist party in the Knesset (until he died and was denounced), and they were actually pretty important.
 
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