CUBAS OPPOSITION TO JEWISH STATEHOOD IN PALESTINE, 1944-49 - A CRITICAL-REVIEW OF VARYING INTERPRETATIONS

Despite Latin America's majority support for the partition of Palestin e, the UN General Assembly witnessed a minority of the region's player s cast non-affirmative votes in November 1947, with Cuba the single co nsistent opponent of such a plan. Cuba's refusal to budge has since be en the source of numerous interpretations, especially on the part of r epresentatives of the island's then ruling party, the Autenticos, as w ell as the Jewish Agency and the Palestine Arab Higher Committee. On t he strength of an array of archival materials, as well as published an d oral sources, this article seeks to review these interpretations. Th eir deconstruction is attempted by way of exposing the gap between his torical fact and the natural deficiencies of politically inspired expl anations.