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declaration to Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild:
“His Majesty’s Government views with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national
home land for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the
achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which
may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in
Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”
On December 9, 1917, Gen. Edmund Allenby marched into Jerusalem, and when the Turks
heard that he was on his way, they interpreted ‘Allenby’ to mean ‘Allah Nebi’ (‘Prophet of
God’), and took it as a sign that God was against them. They were also worried about the
accompanying airplanes (from the 14th Bomber Squadron of the Royal Flying Corp), which they
had never seen before. They were thinking about the promise in Isaiah 31:5: “As birds flying, so
will the Lord of Hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he
will preserve it.” The Turks left the city.
An interesting fact to add to this narrative can be found in Daniel 12:12. Some believe that
the 1335 ‘days’ may refer to the actual date that Palestine was delivered from Moslem rule.
Since the land in Daniel’s day was under Moslem rule, the date given would most likely be in
Moslem terms, not in Jewish or Gregorian. A coin minted in Turkey showed the Gregorian date
of 1917 on one side, and the Moslem date of 1335 on the other side. Is this a fulfillment of
prophecy?
After the War, the 1919 Paris Peace Conference at Versailles established the League of
Nations, who approved the Balfour Declaration and granted a mandate for Great Britain to
govern the Palestine area. Within a couple of years, a Select Committee on Estimates, of the
British House of Commons, reported that “large numbers of Jews, almost amounting to a second
Exodus, have been migrating from Eastern Europe to the American zones of Germany and
Austria with the intention in the majority of cases of finally making their way to Palestine. It is
clear that it is a highly organized movement, with ample funds and great influence behind it, but
the Subcommittee was unable to obtain any real evidence who are the real instigators.” A U.S.
Senate War Investigating Committee report said that a “heavy migration of Jews from Eastern
Europe into the American Zone of Germany is part of a carefully organized plan financed by
special groups in the United States.” Even though nobody was to leave the Soviet Union without
government permission, many Jews were allowed to leave, so they could return to their
homeland.
In 1937, a Royal Commission was established by England which divided the country of
Palestine into three sections: Jewish, Arab and English. With the increased tension, the UN
Security Council later went soft, and the Truman Administration reversed their earlier support,
urging that the partition proposal be suspended, in lieu of a ‘trusteeship.’ Jewish terrorist groups,
such as the Stern gang, and the Irgun Zvai Leumi (led by Menachem Begin), worried that a
Jewish State would not materialize, began attacking Arabs. Time magazine reported that they
“stormed the village of Deir Yasin and butchered everyone in sight. The corpses of 250 Arabs,
mostly women and small children, were tossed into wells.” Rather than risking the possibility of
further massacres, the Arab settlers fled the country to live in neighboring countries.
On April 29, 1947, the UN took on the responsibility of settling the Palestinian situation.
Facing a Jewish refugee crisis because of mass emigration into Palestine that they could no
longer control, England acceded to Resolution 181 of the newly-founded United Nations which