ABSTRACT
The convergence of Soviet and Israeli interests received its fullest and most open expression at the United Nations. The Soviet public was reminded repeatedly of the participation of British officers and soldiers in the Arab armies and of the inspiration, assistance and instructions these received from Britain. The Soviet Union "sympathizes with the wish of the people of the Near East, including the Arab people, to liberate themselves from foreign influence. In a public lecture in Moscow in mid-or late June 1948, a Soviet commentator said that the truce alone had prevented the Jewish forces from actually defeating the "Arab reactionaries" and "British puppets." The Arab armies, the Soviet Yiddish commentator Leonid Epstein said in a Yiddish broadcast early in 1949, had "resumed war operations" following receipt of "new financial aid from the British and increasing supplies of arms and military material from the United State of America and Britain".
