Sabbatean Messianism as Proto Secularism « hanktherank

Sabbatean Messianism as Proto Secularism « hanktherank: "e perception that Jews were
powerful and influential both in Turkey and the U.S reigned. The
agreement was signed only a few days before the Turkish foreign
minister met with American President Truman, who himself supported the
partition plan of Palestine and was helped by many Jews. The
appointment of Henry Morgenthau, a Jewish – American as ambassador in
Turkey, during the early part of the century had reinforced this
perception.

Israel’s relations with Turkey were not always smooth and not always
public. Pressure from Arab countries forced it to greater discretion.
Ben Gurion described the relationship as one with a mistress and not
an open relationship. The Turkish continued the metaphor that ‘a man"