ABSTRACT
With Bernadotte’s plan finally discarded, the locus of diplomatic activity moved to the twin issues of armistice negotiations and Israel’s international status. Israel’s assertion of control in western Jerusalem and the open-ended prospects for armistice talks were deterring the new Nationalist government in South Africa from according further recognition of Israel or supporting its claims for admission to the United Nations. But with Israel having consolidated itself in the field, the question of recognition was now no longer moot in the political sense that Eggleston and Deschamps had indicated six months earlier. An Israeli state existed with armistice lines to be determined by negotiation.
