Czechoslovak Support for the Founding of Israel in the Late 1940s: the Myth of Everlasting Friendship?

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Result on the web
<a href="https://cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cjir/article/view/1888" target="_blank" >https://cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cjir/article/view/1888</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.32422/cjir.1888" target="_blank" >10.32422/cjir.1888</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Czechoslovak Support for the Founding of Israel in the Late 1940s: the Myth of Everlasting Friendship?
Original language description
The war between Israel and Hamas that began in October 2023 deeply polarized public and political opinion worldwide. In contrast to many EU countries, the Czech Republic adopted a position of unwavering support for Israel, referencing their shared values and long-standing friendship grounded in the historical ties between the Czech and Jewish peoples. This article explores this narrative by examining the commonly cited example of Czechoslovakia's support for the establishment of Israel in the late 1940s, which included providing arms supplies, military training, and diplomatic backup. However, such ref lections on history often overlook important international and domestic factors of the time, including the Eastern Bloc’s efforts to expand communism into the newly decolonized Third World countries and its pursuit of financial gain. As a result, Czechoslovakia’s pro-Israeli position during the Cold War was short-lived, and was quickly reversed when the political circumstances changed. Ignoring these facts leads to distorted historical interpretations and even the development of some historical myths.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA23-05300S" target="_blank" >GA23-05300S: Czechoslovak Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict from 1948-1989</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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