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The Committee for Justice and Peace in the Holy Land was an organization founded in February 1948 by Virginia Gildersleeve and Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., for the purpose of lobbying the Truman administration to oppose the creation of the State of Israel[1] and to lobby the United Nations to "reconsider its disastrous decision" to divide the land west of the Jordan River into two states: one Jewish and one Arab.[2]