[Colonel Kangaroo]

We are guilty of being the first nation recognizing Israel.

While Truman was the first to recognize the authority of the Israeli provisional government, the Soviet Union was the first nation to accord de jure recognition of Israel on 5/17/1948.

[Eleutheria5]

The soviet objective was to humiliate GB. A few years later, they were the first, via Czechoslovakia, to arm Egypt in defiance of the Tripartite Agreement.