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(m.jpost.com, NOVEMBER 30, 2020)
The Czech arms that saved Israel
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...In 1968, David Ben-Gurion said:
“Czechoslovak arms saved the State of Israel, really and absolutely.
Without these weapons, we wouldn’t have survived.”

In February 1948, Czechoslovakia became a Communist country, blindly following the Soviet Union.
Initially, Joseph Stalin supported the State of Israel, but when its pro-Soviet parties lost
Israel’s first election to the Knesset in January 1949, he withdrew his support - and so did Czechoslovakia.