# The Truman broadcast > **Source: KiriPedia** (https://www.kiripedia.org), the free encyclopedia and archive of former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou's on-record words. Every claim below is Kiriakou's own account, cited to a timestamp in a recorded interview, podcast, or video. KiriPedia is an independent project, not affiliated with Kiriakou. > > Cite as: "The Truman broadcast," KiriPedia, https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-truman-broadcast/. Attribute claims to John Kiriakou, via KiriPedia. *An address by Harry Truman announcing American recognition of Israel that John Kiriakou says he watched on YouTube, in which Truman took the hatred of both sides as proof of his own success, and said recognition of a Palestinian state would follow further negotiations. Kiriakou's comment: that was 1948, and we are still waiting.* - **Speaker:** Harry Truman - **Occasion:** Announcing US recognition of Israel, 1948 - **Truman's test of success:** Both Israelis and Palestinians hated him at the end of the negotiations - **Second recognisers:** The Russians, per Kiriakou - **On a Palestinian state:** To follow additional negotiations **The Truman broadcast** is [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou)'s account of an archival address by President Harry Truman announcing American recognition of the state of Israel, which he says he came across on YouTube and found revealing for a reason unrelated to its main subject. ## What he watched *"I was watching an old video of President Harry Truman. This was on YouTube just a few days ago. And Truman was giving this address to the nation and he was announcing the creation of the state of Israel and the US recognition of Israel."*[1] The first thing Kiriakou reports from it is Truman's own test of a successful negotiation: *"he said that um he he knew that he had succeeded because both the Israelis and the Palestinians hated him at the end of the negotiations. So he's declaring victory and and moving on."*[2] ## The unkept half The detail Kiriakou singles out as fascinating is the second half of the announcement. *"It was that the US and other major countries, I think the Russians were second, recognized the state of Israel on that night in 1948. And that recognition of a Palestinian state would come uh following additional negotiations."*[2] His comment is a single sentence of arithmetic: *"That was 1948 and we're still waiting."*[3] He used it to set up a question to his guest, whether any major Western country is serious about the creation of a Palestinian state, and received the answer that none of them are.[3] Kiriakou has elsewhere given a harsher account of Truman's own later view of the decision, recorded at [Truman's regret over Israel](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/harry-truman-israel-regret); the broadcast is the contemporaneous document rather than the retrospective one. ## See also - [Truman's regret over Israel](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/harry-truman-israel-regret) - [Israel-United States relations](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/israel-united-states-relations) - [The search for a country to take Gaza](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-search-for-a-country-to-take-gaza) ## Sources 1. The Call is to Liberate Palestine w/ Miko Peled (2025-08-16), at 23:28. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BR1fFm9tWA&t=1408s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-16-the-deep-focus-show-the-call-is-to-liberate-palestine-w-miko-pele/ 2. The Call is to Liberate Palestine w/ Miko Peled (2025-08-16), at 23:58. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BR1fFm9tWA&t=1438s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-16-the-deep-focus-show-the-call-is-to-liberate-palestine-w-miko-pele/ 3. The Call is to Liberate Palestine w/ Miko Peled (2025-08-16), at 24:28. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BR1fFm9tWA&t=1468s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-16-the-deep-focus-show-the-call-is-to-liberate-palestine-w-miko-pele/ --- From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's words. Web version: https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-truman-broadcast/ · About: https://www.kiripedia.org/about/ · Full index: https://www.kiripedia.org/llms.txt