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>> so in light of that what -- what are we to make of trumans innermost attitudes? is there -- is there a conclusion that can be drawn? >> yeah, i think people have used those coats to say truman was an antisemite who really didnt care about the jews and came out with statements like that. he ran into an arc and the state departments resistance and there was pressure by the american public and especiall the oanized american jewish militants who did put tremendous pressure on him, and t...

out of character with what you would expect of a christian scientist, or maybe not. at one point, he is recorded in -- record saying jesus christ couldnt please them when he was on earth, referring to the jews, so how could anyone expect i would have any luck? that almost funny. and then later on you have him say -- and this is i think in connection to the exodus issue -- the jews i find are selfish. they care not how many how yugoslavs, greeks get murdered as displaced persons, as lon...

and the other hand the reason why we say its not true is that in fact eventually despite all the wars and the problems, egypt made peace. jordan made peace with israel. and today as we see, some of the arab states that used to be anti-israel are trying to have a common interest with israel against what they all see is a similar threat of iran to their governments. so i would not say kennan was right. >>, i guess, i said that was the last question but one final one from me. [laughter] >...