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called for a partition of the British-ruled area into separate Jewish and Arab states, with
Jerusalem as a separate entity administered by the UN. Palestinian Jews approved the plan, but
Palestinian Arabs and neighboring Arab countries rejected it.
On May 14, 1948, the British Union Jack in Jerusalem was lowered, and at 4 p.m., David
Ben-Gurion (the first Prime Minister) read the Declaration of Independence over the airwaves in
a radio broadcast from the Tel Aviv Museum. At 6:10 p.m. President Truman made an official
statement of recognition, making the United States one of the first countries to extend diplomatic
recognition to the new independent state of Israel.
In a speech to the UN General Assembly, Andrei Gromyko, the Russian Ambassador,
announced his support for an independent Jewish State in Palestine, and urged the Arabs to
accommodate them. The entire Communist bloc voted to support Israel. They followed their
show of support with a strong program which included financial support and military equipment.
The Soviet Union was hoping that Israel would become another communist satellite. When it
became apparent that Israel would not go communist, Russia discontinued diplomatic relations
with them on February 23, 1953, and the Cominform denounced Zionism as an “agency of
American imperialism.”
Another variation of one of the numerical theories given earlier purports to indicate the
foretelling of the establishment of Israel as an independent Jewish State, and the end of the
dispersal of the Jewish people throughout the world. The calculation goes like this: 2,520 biblical
years X 360 biblical days = 907,200 days, divided by our calendar year of 365.25 days = 2,483.8
calendar years, which added to the end of the Babylonian captivity in 536 BC, leads us to the
year of 1948.
When British troops left the area, they said it would be a matter of weeks before the Arabs
would take over the new country. On May 15th, the official date of statehood, when Ben-Gurion
was broadcasting Israel’s appreciation to the U.S. for their recognition, an explosion sounded,
after which he said: “A bomb has just fallen on this city from an enemy aircraft flying overhead.”
An Arab alliance of Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, and Jordan had attacked
Israel. Even though the newly formed nation was poorly armed, they survived, and actually
increased their territory by 600 miles. The 1949 Armistice gave them 21% more land than they
had originally been given by the United Nations.
Prior to 1948, the Jewish people were known as ‘Palestinians.’ There was a Palestinian Post
newspaper, a Palestinian Brigade of Jewish volunteers in the British Army during World War II,
and an all-Jewish Palestinian Symphony Orchestra. Arab inhabitants living in the new country of
Israel wanted to differentiate themselves from the Jews, and began called themselves
Palestinians. However, the underlying purpose for this was to generate the misconception that it
was a distinct nationality, and that ‘Palestine’ was their ancestral homeland, when in fact, they
are actually similar in language and customs to the Arabs of Syria and Jordan, where their
ancestors probably came from.
On July 26, 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt, seized control of the Suez Canal,
and announced that the profits would go towards building the Aswan Dam. Egypt moved into a
close alliance with Russia as billions of dollars worth of military equipment, along with Soviet
advisors, poured into the country. On October 29th, Israeli forces overran the Gaza Strip, and
had it not been for the UN Resolution that ordered a cease fire, Egypt would have fallen to Israel.
Many years ago I came across this unsubstantiated report. On November 7, 1957, the
Jerusalem Post reported that at 6:03 a.m., Moshe Dayan radioed to twenty of his soldiers
stationed in the Sinai Desert, that three Egyptian divisions, 18,000 men, were on their way. They