Flatly not true.
Ben Gurion et al. ran away with the mandate and proclaimed the Israeli state as an explicitly Jewish state, and the leadership of the American Jewish Congress was in Harry Truman's office like a shot, to demand that Truman recognize Israel over and against the advice of the State Department. They proceeded to remind Harry of the very tight race he was facing, and basically told him that if he wanted another term as president, he'd either do what they wanted, or all the Jewish political money in America would be going to back Tom Dewey. That got around at the time (I think Margaret Truman was the source of the story) and made some people unhappy with the bareknuckle politics of it, but the AJC got what they wanted.
As for the people at State being supposed "Arabists" and sneaky anti-Semites, a) one wonders how they could be both pro-Arab and anti-Semitic, and b) I'm from the South, and I've never had any friends up there at State, either -- so what? The State Department has always been a WASP club, and they've always been snotty about letting other people in their treehouse. I can't remember the last Irish Secretary of State, can you?
The article, in summation, is a bit of a drone, full of self-righteous sorrow for oneself that doesn't help carry any of the essential points the writer wanted to make.
As for the arms embargo, the new Israeli state managed to get enough practical help to arm and field a force sufficient to defeat the Arabs, and there were an awful lot of contributions from American Jewry and other Americans that reached Israel, official arms embargo or no official arms embargo (on both sides? or just on the Israelis? -- the author doesn't say).
Cute. Did you come up with that yourself, or are you just repeating what you heard at the mosque? It's a common, erroneous, disingenuous, and muslim argument. Please excuse the redundancy.
Besides all of that, it is a deliberate sidetrack, intended to obscure the fact that muslims hate the Jews. It is a silly argument, implying that since the arabs are semites, they can't be anti-Semitic, therefore they can't hate Jews. Illogical muslim BS, but I'm being redundant again.
One only wonders if one is willfully ignorant of the meaning of the term "anti-Semitic". While both the Jews and the Arabs are Semites, anti-Semitic doesn't mean anti-Arab. The term was coined by Jew-haters, and means just that - Jew-hater.
Try a dictionary. Go ahead and look up "Semite", and pat yourself on the back for being so clever. But don't close the book until you've looked up "anti-Semite", and then go stand in the corner.
Semite
SYLLABICATION: Sem·ite
PRONUNCIATION: smt
NOUN: 1. A member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Near East and northern Africa, including the Arabs, Arameans, Babylonians, Carthaginians, Ethiopians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians. 2. A Jew. 3. Bible A descendant of Shem.
ETYMOLOGY: Back-formation from Semitic.
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anti-Semite
SYLLABICATION: an·ti-Sem·ite
PRONUNCIATION: nt-smt, nt-
NOUN: One who discriminates against or who is hostile toward or prejudiced against Jews.
OTHER FORMS: anti-Se·mitic (-s-mtk) —ADJECTIVE
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