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Entry: Rethinking 1948 Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/rethinking_1948#28318 Post contents: From the Harry S. Truman Library: <i>At midnight on May 14, 1948, the Provisional Government of Israel proclaimed the new State of Israel. On that same date the United States, in the person of President Truman, recognized the provisional Jewish government as de facto authority of the new Jewish state (de jure recognition was extended on January 31</i> Truman's recognition followed the independence proclamation by all of 11 minutes. Sent at: 2008 11 20