195: Stephen Whitehouse – 1917: The State of Israel

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Welcome to good for selfie and
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You’re about to listen to and

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now let’s talk more about this
week’s talk

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for this week.
We’re listening to a class that

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was given by Brother Stephen
White House at the water.

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Sean Lake Bible School in 2018.
And the subject of his talk is

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1978 a miraculous year that
brought about the state of

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Israel.
This class was recommended to us

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a while back and I really
enjoyed it.

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This is one of those looking
back into history and seeing

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kind of the thread and the weave
of God, working in our world,

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taking a really deep dive and
looking at the history in

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England that led to Israel being
formed as a nation again for the

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Stephen was able to take a very
unique view of some of the

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historical.
Records and be able to actually

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see some of those records and a
study that he was doing and just

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listening to me talk about it.
The excitement that he has is

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really interesting and it’s a
great example of the way that we

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can even look in our own lives
at examples of the way things,

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sometimes just seem to work out
in our lives, in ways that don’t

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seem to always make sense to
encourage your faith.

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And I know sometimes looking
into history and how events were

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put in place, In such a way to
be able to establish God’s plan

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to be encouraging source of a
growing of my own faith.

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So I hope this class is
encouraging to you as well for

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that same reason.
Like I said, it was a real

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interesting one to listen to and
fascinating the amount of

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evidence that brother Stephen
was able to find in his studies.

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So as always if you have
recommendations, please send

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those into our email address.
We appreciate it.

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Any and all recommendation
people send their way.

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And so with that I will turn it
over to our brother Stephen

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White House for his class on the
year 1917.

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So what we’re going to do
tonight is to look at a huge

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milestone and purpose of God,
we’re going to look at the year

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1917.
But before we look at that,

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we’re just going to provide a
bit of an introduction to the

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importance of this year.
So isn’t it amazing that it’s

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this particular year of the
Bible School?

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The nation of Israel has
celebrated.

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Its 70th year anniversary.
This is the year May the 14th

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2018.
And that is incredibly

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significant, isn’t it?
It is so significant that the

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nation of Israel has celebrated
its 70th anniversary.

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And when we look at this, we
look at this picture here, this

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is David Ben-Gurion and he’s
getting up and he’s announcing

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to the world, in 1948, on the
14th of May he’s announcing that

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the state of Israel has been
established.

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And as we know, as
christadelphians as Disciples of

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the Lord, Jesus Christ, this was
a tremendous fulfillment of

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Bible prophecy.
But we’re going to look at the

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Double year.
Another year in the plan of God

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1917, we’re going to see that.
That was a critical milestone in

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the establishment of the state
of Israel and the return of the

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Jews.
Back to the land as a witness

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that God almighty.
God, is the great Creator

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Yahweh.
And in 1917, brothers and

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sisters and young people.
It was a year that the world was

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at War and we’re going to just
look at the context of this

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particular year tonight.
And God willing, we’re going to

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see that.
Yes, of course, we all recognize

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the importance of 1948, but
we’re going to also appreciate

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that. 1917 was indeed a
miraculous Year, and I hope I

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can share that with you tonight.
Particularly the younger ones in

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the audience that it was a
miraculous year.

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So anyway, then we’ve got this
talk and it’s broken up into

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five parts.
Let’s just work through this.

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So first of all, then we’re
going to look at a number of key

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individuals around. she had 1917
and 1917 is the year of the

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Balfour, Declaration, the
Balfour, Declaration and

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December of last year, the
Balfour, Declaration celebrated,

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its Centenary, its 100-year
anniversary.

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And so this was critical in the
establishment of the land of

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Israel.
So we’re going to look at the

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individuals involved in the
development of the Balfour

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Declaration.
So we’re going to look at but

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Lord, Balfour, David Lloyd,
George church and advisement.

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You may have heard a number of
those people before.

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Then we’re going to share some
research in the Rothschild

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archives will come to that in a
moment.

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And then, we’re going to
consider the work of General

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Allenby and his March into
Jerusalem.

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Then we’re going to go forward a
little bit in time and look at

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the ratification of the League
of Nations in 1922.

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And then we’re going to just
reflect in our conclusion,

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December the end of last year,
the Centenary celebrations of

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the Balfour Declaration and it’s
important, and it’s

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significance.
Okay?

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So it’s a very simple structure
and hopefully you’ll find it

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helpful Illuminating and
exhortation on because that’s

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the point of tonight.
So first of all, then we’re

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going to look at some of the
individuals around the year.

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haven’t seen that brought about
the Balfour Declaration and

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we’re going to see that these
members of the British cabinet

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or had a very interesting
history and a good story to tell

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So, first of all, then we have
Lord, Balfour, himself, the

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Balfour Declaration.
And we know that the Balfour

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family was in that, in fact, a
religious family.

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And, and they read their Bibles
every single day.

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So, there was Bible reading
within the Balfour, family.

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It was also believed that
Balfour is a little boy, had a

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christadelphians nanny.
And this nanny gave him a copy.

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As a young boy of elpis Israel.
We certainly know for a fact

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that brother Rob.
Roberts.

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Contacted Lord, Balfour in 1890
and gave them a copy of Nazareth

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Revisited and where Lord Balfour
died, CC Walker, the editor of

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the christadelphians office.
At the time was invited to the

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funeral.
Isn’t that fascinating?

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Now we have David George, he was
a Welshman and his father died

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when he was two.
Now, the importance of David

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George was that he was going to
become the prime minister in the

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year 1917.
So his father died when he was

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two years of age and he was
brought up by his mother and his

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uncle and his uncle went by the
name of Lloyd and his uncle was

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a Methodist preacher and in
Cognition of the work of his

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Uncle David, George became David
Lloyd, George later, on in life.

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Now amazingly, we know
concerning David Lloyd.

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George.
The prime minister of 1917 that

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he even testified that he
actually understood the Kings of

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Israel before he knew the Kings
of England, which was a bit of a

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problem given that he was going
to become the Prime Minister.

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Now, this is interesting at the
age of 14, he left school to

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practice law and by the way he
became A much respected lay

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preacher in his local wealth
Chapel.

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So I’ll a far cry from British
politics today.

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So I want you to imagine this
David Lloyd.

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George had no aspiration, the
time to go into politics and he

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becomes the lawyer.
And he settles in a practice in

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Wales, and he is 14 years of
age.

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Now, just listen to this.
This is amazing.

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One of his first projects as a
lawyer was to draw up a plan for

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a new client.
And the new client was Theodor

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herzl, Theodor.
Herzl contacted.

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This little Welsh practice had
no idea that David Lloyd George

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would later become the Prime
Minister and and Theodor herzl

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contacted him from Vienna
Austria and the Project’s.

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What was the project for a
young?

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David Lloyd?
George.

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The project was to develop a
charter for a Jewish settlement.

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The first Charter in almost
2,000 years.

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Isn’t that staggering?
In fact, Lloyd George presented

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this Charter to the foreign
office in 1903.

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Well, Balfour was the prime
minister at the time.

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It would take another decade for
Lloyd George to come together

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with bow for where Lloyd George
would be prime minister and

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Balfour, would be the foreign
secretary that would bring about

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the Balfour, Declaration later,
but isn’t that amazing?

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But young, David Lloyd, George
presented to Balfour in 10

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Downing Street.
It’s also believed having done a

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bit of research on this that
there’s a brother Joe Thomas

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from Nestle Ecclesia in Wales
that serve David Lloyd George.

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At this time, it’s not fantasy
fascinating, these involvements

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of christadelphians with the
senior politicians.

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Now, if we look elsewhere within
the cabinet, a number of cabinet

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members were Believers in
restoration Theory, don’t know

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whether you know young people.
What restoration theory is

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Restoration theory is all about
a belief that the Jews will go

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back to the land before Jesus
Christ returns and they will

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convert to Christianity before
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Returns, this is restoration
Theory, and there are a number

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several leading politicians on
the cabinet during the year of

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1917 that actually subscribed to
this Theory and to, add to the

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number.
There was also Winston Churchill

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to everyone’s surprise in July
1917 Lloyd, George appointed

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him, Be the minister of
Munitions.

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And he joined the cabinet at a
quote Lloyd, George.

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He appointed Churchill for this
reason and for this reason only

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to cheer me up when surrounded
by gloomy faces much later.

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Churchill said to Dwight
Eisenhower, the president of

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America.
And these are interesting words,

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I am, of course, a Zionist.
And I have been ever since the

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Balfour Declaration, And what
incredible role Winston.

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Churchill would take during the
first and the second world war.

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Certainly a man, very much
raised by God for a particular

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purpose and now we come to dr.
Kind Iseman.

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And he picked up where Theodor
herzl left off.

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He was a Jewish immigrant from
Russia.

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I’m sure many of, you know, he
was a brilliant scientist he was

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appointed professor in chemistry
at the University of Geneva in

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1901, but because of the anti
symmetric Feelings across

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Europe.
He came to England.

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He couldn’t actually find a job
in London and so he took up a

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post at Manchester University in
1904 In 1906 Balfour, was busy

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campaigning for another term as
prime minister and he was in his

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election headquarters in
Manchester hotel and he set

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aside 15 minutes to meet this
man.

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Kind of Iseman are well-known
professor at that time at

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Manchester United and Manchester
University and they were to meet

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for 50.
I think I said United there.

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So they would something for 15
minutes and actually they met

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for an hour.
Okay, that’s a hotel in

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Manchester.
Let me just be clear.

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When they met Balfour, our
servicemen, why are the zionists

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were bitterly opposed to the
Ugandan offer the yolk, the

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offer Uganda or Kenya today was
was in response to the the

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terrible pogroms that were
taking place in Russia.

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And the view was that Uganda
would be a place of respite and

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refuge for the Jews.
And history tells us that

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vitamin was very angry with
Balfour who was prime minister

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at the time.
And this is what vitamin said to

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balfour’s question and listen to
this.

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And this, I think catches really
the spirit of Iseman, if Moses

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had come into the sixth Zionist
Congress.

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When it was adopting, the
resolution in favor of the

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commission of Uganda, he was
surely a broken, the tables once

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again.
Years later, advised one wrote

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in his Memoirs.
So just recording the moment

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when he was speaking to Balfour.
He says I was sweating blood and

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I was trying to find some less
ponderous way of expressing

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myself, suddenly I said mr.
Balfour, supposing, I were to

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offer you Paris instead of
London, would you take it?

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Fair question, he sat up, looked
at me and said, but dr.

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Vaisman we have London.
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I said, but we had Jerusalem
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He leaned back and continue to
stare at me, I did not see him

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until 1914.
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It was a view that was not
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running for a general election
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But ten years on circumstances
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or war was being fought and kind
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incredibly useful.
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we’ve now moved forward, 10
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war, there was a major problem
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of acetone and I’m sure you know
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critical compound for gunpowder.
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given that the British allies
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was unacceptable and America
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rates.
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up with her own solution.
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David Lloyd George or David
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George asked of Iseman, whether
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making acetone in large
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And advisement said, yes and
there’s no actual evidence that

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he had a theory at that time,
but he said yes and quite

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quickly, he invented a new
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huge.
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It was a brilliant Discovery and
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the war and by doing so.
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history.
Now everyone was delighted back

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home in Britain.
Lloyd George the Prime Minister

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later in his War Memoirs
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How he proposed to recommend,
dr.

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Vaisman for some great honor.
But Wiseman rejected the idea

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outright he didn’t want to have.
He didn’t want to receive any

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personal rewards, so it’s a
Lloyd, George then appealed to

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him, and ask is there nothing.
We can do in recognition of your

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valuable work that you’ve done
for this country.

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And wise man said these Immortal
words, yes, I would like to do

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something for my people.
Being a proud June.

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And so that the British cabinet
that the government there, they

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deliberated and soon.
They came up with a decision and

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it was the responsibility of
Lord marks Sykes on the screen

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here.
He was the Secretary of the wall

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cabinet and he cried the words,
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Vaisman, it’s a boy because
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this had given birth.
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And that interesting have today,
has anyone seen the Balfour

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Declaration in the flash?
Anyone Well today you can see

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the Declaration.
It’s in the British library in

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London.
It’s one long sentence.

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There’s no punctuation there.
It’s 67 words.

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It’s now just a on a ragged
piece of paper in storage, but

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it has cast a long Shadow over
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and now challenges for the 21st
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We want to listen to the
Balfour.

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Declaration.
What was written?

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And who better to call upon now,
the Lord Jacob Rothschild Soul

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or Jacob, Rothschild is the
great nephew of the recipients

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of the Balfour Declaration who
was Lord, Walter you can see

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their lord Rothschild.
That was Lord Walter.

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And so we’re going to call upon
his great-nephew to read out the

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Balfour, Declaration to us and I
think you’ll find this

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interesting.
Is there Justice government deal

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with favor?
Your strawberries into Palestine

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of a national home for the
Jewish people and reduce that

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best endeavours to facilitate
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It being clearly understood that
nothing should be done which may

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Prejudice the civil and
religious rights of existing

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non-jewish communities in
Palestine or the rights and

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political strategist enjoyed by
Jews and any other Come trip.

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I should be grateful if you
would bring this declaration to

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the knowledge of the zone as
Federation, he was Arthur

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Balfour.
And here it is.

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The Balfour Declaration.
What do you feel when you when

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you see it here?
I’ve generally varies with the

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most extraordinary moments in
the history of the Jewish people

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who think it took 3,000 years to
get to this.

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And then you say how did this
miracle happen?

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Indeed, how did this miracle
happen at Lord?

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Jacob has asked well, before we
get to that, that the question

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is, it’s a reasonable question?
Isn’t it how advisement

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influence that the British
government and the country’s

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Elite in the year 1917?
But what we do know, at the end

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of the first world war, he
became a major celebrity.

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And even the young ones I asked
the young ones this morning.

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If they had heard of Albert
Einstein and they said, no, I’m

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sure they were just teasing me,
but there he is young ones.

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There’s Albert Einstein.
He became a personal friend of

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Iseman to brilliant Jews and
they traveled the world, and

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they were generating funds.
Actually, for a new political

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movement in Israel at the end of
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So he became a major celebrity.
In fact, vitamin became First

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president of Israel.
So how is this achieved?

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Well.
It’s not obvious.

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That’s all I can say.
Wiseman was born in a little

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town in Russia called Motel.
It was a place that was

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designated for the Jews during
the terrible Russian pogroms.

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He was the third of 15 children,
and he was a son of a Timber

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Merchants.
So how could a man, like this,

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who hardly could speak English
had no money had no reputation.

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He lived in Manchester away from
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He was not able to influence
British government and the

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establishment.
How could this be achieved

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through this man?
It’s quite incredible, isn’t it?

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It defies probability so
unlikely.

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I asked you did someone else
helped him along the way?

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Well records tell us that there
was help two men on the screen

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here.
CP Scott and Harry satcher from

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the Manchester Guardian.
You may remember I just said

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about vitamin being a professor
at Manchester University and he

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had a number of friends
benefactors there at the

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Manchester guardian and they
offered a huge backing for him,

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but this is a story that is
well, told if you look in your

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history, You books, you will
find that the major support came

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from the Manchester post, and
I’m going to try and suggest

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that perhaps there was another
influence a greater influence

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than this.
So, answer this question we now

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go to the second section of our
talk tonight and we want to look

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at the Rothschild family and
their family archives.

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Well, last year I wrote to the
Rothschild family and I wrote To

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The Head archivist of the Roth’s
child family, Katherine Taylor.

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You can see a picture there and
she is personally hand-picked by

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Lord.
Jacob Rothschild.

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Her job is to oversee all the
archives of the Roth’s child

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family.
Now, to put this into context,

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the Rothschild family,
collectively, own, 1.2 trillion,

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US dollars, And the history goes
all the way back.

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They were supporting
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They were the founders of
Europe.

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And so I asked, could we come in
and see their archives?

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Well, their archives are at a
what is sin.

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If anyone’s being to what a
certain manner in England, it’s

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at the Watterson archived there
at Wind Mill Hill in in

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buckinghamshire and so when I
went to the request I had to

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explain who I was and I
explained I was a

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christadelphians.
I explained to the

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christadelphians were And how
they have supported the Jews and

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they were particularly
interested to hear that the Jews

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were supported when they were
founding the early Parts in

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Palestine.
At the beginning of the last

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century, they were particularly
interested that the

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christadelphians were there,
which they were with Brethren,

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like, Frank Jana way.
They were there supporting the

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early movement of the Jews in
their early settlements.

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And then I told her about this
work that I Was preparing, and

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she was really interested.
In fact, she gave us a personal

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invitation and so sister
Lindsay, and, and myself and our

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three children went to handle
the archives, but we didn’t

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allow the children to hold them,
much to their disappointment

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even though they don’t
understand why they weren’t

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allowed anyway.
So we went through the private

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archives that the letters and
these letters were between the

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Rothschilds advisement.
Churchill bow for David Lloyd,

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George Allen, B, and many, many
more and what a privilege it was

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to go through.
These letters and this is what

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we want to share tonight.
Well, before we get into these

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letters, first of all, we need
to remember that.

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The recipient of the Balfour,
Declaration was Lord, Walter

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Lord, Walter Rothschild.
And this man was a total

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eccentric.
He doesn’t look like that,

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except for his bowler hat, but
he was, he was a total

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eccentric.
But surprisingly he was

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converted by, I’ve Iseman to
become a passionate Zionist at a

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time.
When he’s only great interest

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was to create the finest,
private collection of Natural

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History.
Specimens ever made by one man.

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These are his words and he
succeeded in doing.

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So, so those of you been to
England, you may have actually

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gone to the Natural History
Museum in tring just north of

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London.
And this is his Museum of all

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the various things that he is.
Discovered.

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He house them there in this
particular Museum, but he was

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eccentric, Lord, Walter never
married.

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And he would ride around the
park in a carriage led by his

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own zebras, or should I say
zebras?

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And he was often seen sitting on
top of one of his 144 giant

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tortoises that came from the
Galapagos Islands.

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But nevertheless, there was a
serious side to him.

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He was a renowned, brilliant
scholar.

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He was a fellow of the Royal
Society, which is no mean feat.

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He actually wrote 1,200 books
and papers based upon his own

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Collections and soon.
He became the lay leader of the

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Jewish movement in Britain.
So when the government decided

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to support Israel, he was the
ideal candidate to speak to.

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And so, this is why the Balfour
Declaration was personally

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written to him.
Now, while Walter and this is

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the part of the story that I
found most intriguing.

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I hope you do too.
So why are some alter the

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recipient of the Balfour?
Declaration was growing zone,

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Private Collection.
There was another Rothschild who

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is growing in prominence a man
called James but water was on

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the English side of the family
James or Jimmy to his friends

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was on the French side of the
family.

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Now in 1913, Jimmy married a
woman called Dorothy It was a

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whirlwind engagement and it only
lasted five and a half weeks.

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So actually a little longer than
a mallet tool in youth

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conference but nevertheless only
five and a half weeks.

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Dorothy wasn’t even 18 years of
age when she was married.

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And only, then she had been
allowed to sit with her parents,

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instant Albans, at 7:45 every
night to have dinner.

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So there was nothing in her past
her history, her experience that

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was going to prepare herself for
a life with the most eminent

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bachelor in Britain.
At that time.

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Jimmy, Rothschild.
Now, James was 35 years of age,

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Dorothy was 17, so you can
imagine in High Society, it

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raised a few eyebrows.
Brothers and sisters, Providence

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was at work in November 1914,
when Dorothy was only 19 years

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of age, she heard Vice when
lecture on Zionism and she was

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absolutely gripped.
Her husband was away fighting in

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the French army in Paris, and so
she was left at home to

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represent the family.
She was in charge.

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So I want you to imagine this a
young Dorothy, she listens to

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this.
Eminent Professor speaking about

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Zionism and Dorothy decides to
speak to those Iseman at the end

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of the presentation.
And she says these words, you

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really need to meet my husband
because he is able to help you.

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Not now husband had no idea who
this young woman Wars.

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He had no idea that she was
married to Sir lord, Jimmy

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Rothschild had no idea at all.
However, she went on to say, I

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first need you to be trained in
British etiquette so that you

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make the right impression with
my husband. we are talking about

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the highest of society here, the
personal friends of Jimmy were

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the cabinet, the Royals, Wealth.
Right across Europe.

439
00:27:49,900 –> 00:27:52,600
And he was just a lowly, I
should say professor.

440
00:27:53,800 –> 00:27:57,900
And she wanted to invite him
into the circles of her

441
00:27:57,900 –> 00:28:01,500
influence.
And that’s exactly what you do.

442
00:28:01,500 –> 00:28:05,100
Brothers and sisters in young
people is very moving Ashley and

443
00:28:05,100 –> 00:28:07,900
she does this training in
British etiquette, with this

444
00:28:07,900 –> 00:28:11,800
Russian who spoke very little
English at the time and she does

445
00:28:11,800 –> 00:28:15,800
it in private without a husband,
knowing my sister Lindsay and I

446
00:28:15,800 –> 00:28:17,700
we had the opportunity to go
through these letters.

447
00:28:17,700 –> 00:28:18,700
And let me just tell you
something.

448
00:28:18,700 –> 00:28:21,400
Here, we went through these
personal letters and we

449
00:28:21,400 –> 00:28:27,200
discovered that Dora He wrote to
the Heisman no less than 33

450
00:28:27,200 –> 00:28:32,600
times in training him in
Etiquette between 1914 and 1916,

451
00:28:32,600 –> 00:28:38,000
it is absolutely staggering.
Dorothy helped Professor Wiseman

452
00:28:38,600 –> 00:28:43,000
organized no less than 2,000
personal meetings with the

453
00:28:43,000 –> 00:28:46,700
establishment in Britain.
You think about that 2000

454
00:28:47,700 –> 00:28:52,600
personal meetings and she helped
V has been right a further 1,000

455
00:28:52,600 –> 00:28:56,000
letters, how industrious was
that?

456
00:28:56,300 –> 00:28:59,300
It’s incredible.
And perhaps her involvement

457
00:28:59,300 –> 00:29:05,300
actually change the course of
the war. and so then when they

458
00:29:05,300 –> 00:29:09,300
did me, He was well trained in
etiquette.

459
00:29:10,400 –> 00:29:12,100
And he had the impact that was
needed.

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00:29:12,700 –> 00:29:16,500
And Rothschild, love this man
and ushered him into the

461
00:29:16,500 –> 00:29:18,800
influence of the government and
soon.

462
00:29:18,800 –> 00:29:21,400
Now, the government were
listening to Professor Wiseman.

463
00:29:21,400 –> 00:29:23,900
Can you imagine that?
Now, what’s interesting and this

464
00:29:23,900 –> 00:29:28,000
is a side point.
We had to find out by going

465
00:29:28,000 –> 00:29:30,600
through the letters because and
I’m not going to be disparaging

466
00:29:30,600 –> 00:29:33,200
because they’ve been very good
to us as a family and allowing

467
00:29:33,200 –> 00:29:35,800
us to go through the archives
but what is clear when you look

468
00:29:35,800 –> 00:29:38,900
at history books and when you
speak to the Rothschild family

469
00:29:38,900 –> 00:29:41,200
and I’ve got the greatest
respect for them as a family.

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00:29:42,400 –> 00:29:46,400
They will not mention Dorothy.
And the reason being is that

471
00:29:46,400 –> 00:29:49,300
Dorothy was kind of plucked out
of obscurity and the

472
00:29:49,300 –> 00:29:53,000
establishment of Israel is to do
with Walter and Jimmy.

473
00:29:53,000 –> 00:29:54,500
Can you see the point I’m
making?

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00:29:56,000 –> 00:30:00,000
We had to go through the letters
to find the real influence here.

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00:30:00,900 –> 00:30:03,900
The influence through Professor
Wiseman, isn’t that fascinating?

476
00:30:05,400 –> 00:30:07,300
And surely for me.
Anyway, at least since the

477
00:30:07,300 –> 00:30:09,900
sister Lindsay, you know, that
the key message for us was that

478
00:30:09,900 –> 00:30:14,000
God uses the so-called the
seeming small and insignificant.

479
00:30:14,000 –> 00:30:18,000
That’s what he does to show that
he is gone, but even in a war,

480
00:30:18,000 –> 00:30:22,300
when the world was grouped in
fear, He’s working with the

481
00:30:22,300 –> 00:30:26,000
small and insignificant prove to
the world that he is God and

482
00:30:26,000 –> 00:30:27,300
everything.
Is in his control.

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00:30:27,300 –> 00:30:29,600
Isn’t that fascinating?
Isn’t that wonderful?

484
00:30:29,600 –> 00:30:35,600
Well, we were certainly joyful
as we came across this piece of

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00:30:35,600 –> 00:30:39,700
information So that’s Dorothy,
don’t forget about Dorothy,

486
00:30:39,700 –> 00:30:42,100
don’t forget about Dorothy.
It’s a lovely story.

487
00:30:42,700 –> 00:30:45,200
Now, we’re going to share
another little story here, which

488
00:30:45,200 –> 00:30:47,200
is not well known about General
Allenby.

489
00:30:47,200 –> 00:30:49,500
Now, you all know about Allenby,
he walked into Jerusalem.

490
00:30:49,500 –> 00:30:52,200
Well, let’s just think a little
more about this lamb.

491
00:30:52,800 –> 00:30:57,400
Well, General Allenby was
nicknamed, The Bull because of

492
00:30:57,400 –> 00:31:01,400
his physical imposing presence.
He was six foot two and he had a

493
00:31:01,800 –> 00:31:05,300
impressive barrel chest.
I’m glad he’s not standing with

494
00:31:05,300 –> 00:31:09,600
me on the platform.
But anyway, it’s a prior to.

495
00:31:09,700 –> 00:31:12,200
So seriously, prior to the
service, in the Middle East is

496
00:31:12,200 –> 00:31:13,800
going to go to the Middle East
is going to March into

497
00:31:13,800 –> 00:31:18,100
Jerusalem, but he was given
charge of the third Army and the

498
00:31:18,100 –> 00:31:21,600
Cavalry on the Western Front.
So he was the one who personally

499
00:31:21,600 –> 00:31:27,900
saw a million soldiers killed.
It was a huge waste.

500
00:31:29,300 –> 00:31:34,200
And and and there were stalemate
that was going on in the Great

501
00:31:34,200 –> 00:31:37,400
War during that time because
none of the armies could get

502
00:31:37,400 –> 00:31:40,100
beyond the Western Front.
And so this really then

503
00:31:40,300 –> 00:31:43,100
perplexed and exercise, the
minds of the British government,

504
00:31:43,100 –> 00:31:46,700
what were they going to do?
Well, they send for this man,

505
00:31:46,700 –> 00:31:51,400
they sent for Lord, Balfour,
they sent for General Allenby,

506
00:31:52,200 –> 00:31:54,300
and a bit of history on General
Allenby.

507
00:31:55,900 –> 00:31:58,900
He has one child.
We only had one child Michael

508
00:31:59,700 –> 00:32:02,000
and Michael.
So we’re going to get into a

509
00:32:02,008 –> 00:32:04,900
personal story here.
Michael was enlisted, at a very

510
00:32:04,900 –> 00:32:10,800
young age at 17.
And every single day Allenby

511
00:32:10,800 –> 00:32:14,200
would go down to the office
where War casualties were

512
00:32:14,200 –> 00:32:16,400
reported and inquire.
These are the words that are

513
00:32:16,408 –> 00:32:18,500
recorded.
He would say, these words, every

514
00:32:18,500 –> 00:32:24,300
single day, General Allenby, any
news of my little boy today, so

515
00:32:24,300 –> 00:32:27,300
any parent in the room, we can
empathize with that Conway.

516
00:32:28,200 –> 00:32:32,200
Some was 17 on the Western Front
and Allenby would go down and he

517
00:32:32,200 –> 00:32:34,000
would be disguise.
He didn’t want any of the army

518
00:32:34,000 –> 00:32:36,200
and in the soldiers are see him
because he was leading the

519
00:32:36,200 –> 00:32:38,600
troops.
But he was acutely concerned

520
00:32:38,600 –> 00:32:42,100
about his son.
Any news about my little boy,

521
00:32:42,600 –> 00:32:44,600
and if he’s little boy, has
anything to do with Allenby.

522
00:32:44,600 –> 00:32:46,600
He was six foot two with about
chest.

523
00:32:48,300 –> 00:32:50,300
But this is what he’s concerned
was.

524
00:32:51,800 –> 00:32:55,500
Now the situation for Britain at
that time was grim and the Prime

525
00:32:55,500 –> 00:32:59,400
Minister later wrote in his
Memoirs, this is David Lloyd

526
00:32:59,400 –> 00:33:02,900
George.
He says these words Before

527
00:33:02,900 –> 00:33:06,200
Allenby left for Egypt, I had an
interview with him and impressed

528
00:33:06,200 –> 00:33:09,600
on him that we wanted a
determine attack and push

529
00:33:09,600 –> 00:33:13,200
against the Turks with the
object of driving them out of

530
00:33:13,200 –> 00:33:17,800
Palestine.
I said the cabinet expected

531
00:33:17,800 –> 00:33:20,100
Jerusalem before Christmas.
Now I know.

532
00:33:20,200 –> 00:33:22,600
But the students going to talk
about the drying up of the

533
00:33:22,600 –> 00:33:26,200
Euphrates from Revelation 16 so
we won’t talk about that but

534
00:33:26,200 –> 00:33:30,100
this is a historical moment in
time where the drying up of the

535
00:33:30,100 –> 00:33:33,000
Euphrates was taking place.
The Intention of the British

536
00:33:33,000 –> 00:33:35,700
Army’s to evict the Turks out of
Jerusalem.

537
00:33:38,100 –> 00:33:41,300
And Allenby was told as he was
taken from the Western Front and

538
00:33:41,300 –> 00:33:46,700
placed in the Middle East.
We need Jerusalem by Christmas

539
00:33:47,600 –> 00:33:53,300
December 1917.
Now, why why was it that the

540
00:33:53,300 –> 00:33:55,500
British government?
I remember the religious

541
00:33:55,500 –> 00:33:57,900
background of this government.
Why was it that the religious

542
00:33:57,900 –> 00:34:01,700
government wanted Jerusalem by
the end of 1917?

543
00:34:01,700 –> 00:34:03,800
Well, again, this is
interesting.

544
00:34:05,100 –> 00:34:06,900
Before Alan be left for the
Middle East.

545
00:34:06,900 –> 00:34:09,500
He met with Admiral Lord,
Fisher.

546
00:34:09,500 –> 00:34:10,900
The first Sea.
Lord in London.

547
00:34:10,900 –> 00:34:13,199
So he was the one who oversaw
the flotillas.

548
00:34:14,100 –> 00:34:18,600
All the ships that went to war.
And this meeting was recorded by

549
00:34:18,600 –> 00:34:23,699
Lord, fishes secretary.
And this was what was said

550
00:34:24,300 –> 00:34:28,100
between the Lord Admiral, the
one who was responsible for the

551
00:34:28,100 –> 00:34:31,400
sea in the Navy.
And this was the instruction

552
00:34:31,400 –> 00:34:35,500
that was given to Allenby before
he left Britain to take up Post

553
00:34:35,500 –> 00:34:37,000
in the Middle East.
This is amazing.

554
00:34:37,000 –> 00:34:39,800
I’ve got it on the screen here.
Let’s just read this together.

555
00:34:40,300 –> 00:34:44,500
This is a memoir.
Allenby was told that he would

556
00:34:44,500 –> 00:34:49,199
be God’s instrument for the
Deliverance of Jerusalem in

557
00:34:49,199 –> 00:34:52,300
December 1917.
So, this is the Lord Amaral.

558
00:34:52,600 –> 00:34:56,800
This is the, the lord of the,
the sea and that the merchants

559
00:34:56,800 –> 00:35:00,100
there.
For the Deliverance of

560
00:35:00,100 –> 00:35:03,600
Jerusalem, in December 1917,
stunned by Lord, fishes, words

561
00:35:03,600 –> 00:35:06,800
Allenby, asked him to explain
the deduction Amaral.

562
00:35:06,800 –> 00:35:08,700
Lord Fisher.
First Sea Lord, said these

563
00:35:08,700 –> 00:35:12,100
words, he spent several hours in
discussing.

564
00:35:12,100 –> 00:35:15,000
The Bible, with General Allen be
showing him the prophecies that

565
00:35:15,000 –> 00:35:17,200
relate to the rise of Great
Britain.

566
00:35:17,700 –> 00:35:20,500
And lastly, the prophecies
relating to the Deliverance of

567
00:35:20,500 –> 00:35:25,800
Jerusalem in December 1917.
Armed and strengthened by his

568
00:35:25,800 –> 00:35:29,400
knowledge, General Allenby,
sailed for the Middle East.

569
00:35:29,400 –> 00:35:34,100
Did you know that So, before
Allenby went into Jerusalem, at

570
00:35:34,100 –> 00:35:35,900
the end of the year, on
December, the 11th will look at

571
00:35:35,900 –> 00:35:40,100
that in a moment, he was told
that he was fulfilling Bible

572
00:35:40,100 –> 00:35:45,600
prophecy in that, amazing.
But Allenby went and soon as he

573
00:35:45,600 –> 00:35:49,100
arrived in the Middle East, he
received crushing news,

574
00:35:49,700 –> 00:35:52,800
tragically.
He was told that his son had

575
00:35:52,800 –> 00:35:56,700
died.
His son was only 20 years of

576
00:35:56,700 –> 00:35:59,700
age.
A piece of shrapnel had gone and

577
00:35:59,700 –> 00:36:01,900
pierced his helmet and he died
immediately.

578
00:36:03,000 –> 00:36:07,200
And this is the only record
where soldiers record Allenby

579
00:36:07,200 –> 00:36:12,500
being reduced to public tears.
But such was the measure of the

580
00:36:12,500 –> 00:36:15,500
man, he would continue in his
work.

581
00:36:16,300 –> 00:36:21,000
And he asked the Prime Minister
David Lloyd George, whether his

582
00:36:21,000 –> 00:36:26,500
wife who join him and his wife
came and they continue the work

583
00:36:26,500 –> 00:36:29,300
together.
And by December, they were in

584
00:36:29,300 –> 00:36:30,600
Jerusalem.
Isn’t that amazing?

585
00:36:31,000 –> 00:36:33,600
Absolutely tremendous.
How God has worked with these

586
00:36:33,600 –> 00:36:38,200
men and women here?
Well, after a number of great

587
00:36:38,200 –> 00:36:40,900
victories, including the Battle
of Beersheba.

588
00:36:41,100 –> 00:36:43,900
Muslim was next.
And so then we arrived to

589
00:36:43,900 –> 00:36:46,700
December the 8th 1917.
Just three days before.

590
00:36:46,700 –> 00:36:49,100
Allenby is going to go into
Jerusalem and this is the first

591
00:36:49,100 –> 00:36:51,300
day of the Jewish feast of
Hanukkah.

592
00:36:54,700 –> 00:36:58,300
But Allenby didn’t want to fire
on the Turkish troops in

593
00:36:58,300 –> 00:37:02,200
Jerusalem because he had so much
respect for the city and the

594
00:37:02,200 –> 00:37:05,400
holy sites.
And so then he contacts the

595
00:37:05,400 –> 00:37:10,000
Prime Minister for advice.
But Lloyd, George said that the

596
00:37:10,000 –> 00:37:14,200
war cabinet was leaving to him
and he’s better judgments.

597
00:37:14,500 –> 00:37:16,300
So that’s what wasn’t going to
be helpful.

598
00:37:16,300 –> 00:37:18,600
Was it?
So not satisfied with that

599
00:37:18,900 –> 00:37:21,300
Allenby, then contacted the
king.

600
00:37:22,300 –> 00:37:26,000
And ask the king what he should
do with the Turks in Jerusalem.

601
00:37:26,000 –> 00:37:29,800
You know what, the king said you
need to pray about it Allenby.

602
00:37:31,500 –> 00:37:36,800
And so, he did.
And so this is what happened.

603
00:37:38,200 –> 00:37:42,700
Allenby didn’t want a fire to be
shot.

604
00:37:43,300 –> 00:37:47,700
He wanted the Turks to Simply
surrender so he commanded the

605
00:37:47,700 –> 00:37:52,100
Royal flying Corps to drop
leaflets all across Jerusalem.

606
00:37:52,100 –> 00:37:56,400
Informing the Turks that they
needed to surrender and this is

607
00:37:56,400 –> 00:37:59,700
exactly what happened.
The Turks just retreated, the

608
00:37:59,700 –> 00:38:04,200
city was handed over to Allen be
without a shot being fired.

609
00:38:06,600 –> 00:38:11,000
And so as you can imagine, then
allenbys entrance into Jerusalem

610
00:38:11,000 –> 00:38:14,500
on December.
The 11th 1917 was carefully

611
00:38:14,500 –> 00:38:18,800
choreographed and and the war
effort at War office in in

612
00:38:18,800 –> 00:38:20,200
Britain gave careful
instructions.

613
00:38:20,200 –> 00:38:23,800
Look at this, this is the
telegram but Alan be received

614
00:38:23,800 –> 00:38:26,900
before he went into Jerusalem
from the British government and

615
00:38:26,900 –> 00:38:32,800
it says these words In the event
of Jerusalem being occupied, it

616
00:38:32,800 –> 00:38:35,900
would be of considerable
political import Allenby.

617
00:38:35,900 –> 00:38:40,200
If you unofficially entering the
city Dismount at The City Gate

618
00:38:40,200 –> 00:38:44,400
and enter on foot, the German
Emperor Road in, and the saying

619
00:38:44,400 –> 00:38:50,400
went round are better man than
he warn’t advantage of contrast.

620
00:38:50,400 –> 00:38:55,700
In conduct will be obvious, so
then Allen be compliant.

621
00:38:55,700 –> 00:38:59,900
He dismounted his horse and he
entered into the After Gates,

622
00:39:00,000 –> 00:39:06,100
and he was followed in by this
man, but peppy, but Pepin walk

623
00:39:06,100 –> 00:39:11,500
through the jaffa cakes with
Allenby and he would later

624
00:39:11,500 –> 00:39:16,100
become brother, but Pepin of
taught and Ecclesia in England,

625
00:39:16,500 –> 00:39:18,900
and the recording.
Brother of that Ecclesia for

626
00:39:18,900 –> 00:39:24,700
many years, and I’ve spoken to
his family and he walked through

627
00:39:24,700 –> 00:39:30,300
the Jaffa gates with Alan B and
he could see The Turks just

628
00:39:30,300 –> 00:39:33,500
removed and he could see that
this had nothing to do.

629
00:39:33,500 –> 00:39:35,900
That was his belief, he had
nothing to do with the British

630
00:39:35,900 –> 00:39:40,900
government’s, all the propaganda
or the leaflets that something

631
00:39:40,900 –> 00:39:44,000
greater a greater power was at
forced that day.

632
00:39:44,000 –> 00:39:48,100
And so then Pepin resolved that
he would go home.

633
00:39:48,100 –> 00:39:51,300
He’d read his Bible and find the
truth and he found the

634
00:39:51,300 –> 00:39:54,700
christadelphians.
It wasn’t a leaflet that found

635
00:39:54,700 –> 00:39:57,400
him.
He found the christadelphians

636
00:39:57,800 –> 00:40:00,700
and he married Elsie.
And they had two daughters and

637
00:40:00,707 –> 00:40:05,000
this is a rare sunny day in
England and they’re enjoying a

638
00:40:05,000 –> 00:40:07,100
lovely afternoon together.
What a lovely story.

639
00:40:07,100 –> 00:40:10,600
In fact, I was actually giving a
talk on the 6th on the drying up

640
00:40:10,600 –> 00:40:13,400
of the Euphrates for a
fraternity and Ecclesia, and

641
00:40:13,400 –> 00:40:16,800
they told me that the recording
brother that closure was brother

642
00:40:16,800 –> 00:40:18,800
burping.
You imagine how delighted I was

643
00:40:19,200 –> 00:40:21,400
the find out about that.
I didn’t know about this story

644
00:40:21,400 –> 00:40:23,900
until his family told me, and I
told the christadelphians office

645
00:40:23,900 –> 00:40:26,800
and we publish a little article
about an amazing.

646
00:40:27,600 –> 00:40:30,500
Isn’t that amazing?
How Oh, God were.

647
00:40:32,500 –> 00:40:37,100
Well, let’s just see how Allenby
marched into Jerusalem.

648
00:40:37,100 –> 00:40:39,800
Let her show you some old
footage here.

649
00:40:49,900 –> 00:40:54,200
General Edmund, Allenby swept
aside, the, Turkish forces, and

650
00:40:54,200 –> 00:41:00,100
conquered Palestine yet this was
despite appearances.

651
00:41:00,600 –> 00:41:03,600
No simple, Triumph of an
invading Army

652
00:41:16,400 –> 00:41:19,900
So it was that Allenby was
ordered by London to enter the

653
00:41:19,900 –> 00:41:23,200
city on foot without flying any
flies.

654
00:41:24,700 –> 00:41:28,800
He appeared to onlookers more as
a humble Pilgrim than conqueror

655
00:41:29,900 –> 00:41:32,800
and remarkably.
The local people were asked to

656
00:41:32,800 –> 00:41:37,200
believe that allenbys arrival in
the city had been prophesied.

657
00:41:44,100 –> 00:41:46,900
the British propagandists
realized that almost

658
00:41:46,900 –> 00:41:52,000
miraculously allenbys name when
written in Arabic spelled

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00:41:52,100 –> 00:42:00,300
al-nabi, that is the profit Doc
was how the British presented a

660
00:42:00,300 –> 00:42:03,500
Christian General to the Muslim
population of the city.

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00:42:10,900 –> 00:42:14,400
Allenby was as prophesied their
savior.

662
00:42:19,900 –> 00:42:22,800
So, in the christadelphians
magazine, following the Balfour,

663
00:42:22,800 –> 00:42:28,000
Declaration brother, John Carter
included a letter written by LG

664
00:42:28,000 –> 00:42:30,600
Sergeant, to the London Daily
Telegraph.

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00:42:31,300 –> 00:42:32,600
So, I’m just going to read this
letter.

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00:42:33,200 –> 00:42:36,800
That was written by the editor,
at the time to the London, Daily

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00:42:36,800 –> 00:42:40,000
Telegraph.
After the Balfour, Declaration

668
00:42:40,000 –> 00:42:42,800
was issued, and I’m sure you’ve
never seen a letter quite like

669
00:42:42,800 –> 00:42:47,300
this before.
It was in the year 606 BC that

670
00:42:47,300 –> 00:42:51,000
Nebuchadnezzar first came
against Judah and carried Daniel

671
00:42:51,000 –> 00:42:53,500
and the Hebrew children among
others captive.

672
00:42:53,900 –> 00:42:57,000
At this time, he was acting on
behalf of his father and it was

673
00:42:57,000 –> 00:43:01,300
not until nearly two years later
in 604, BC that he himself has

674
00:43:01,300 –> 00:43:06,400
ceded the throne that year is
consequently properly speaking,

675
00:43:06,400 –> 00:43:09,300
the first of Nebuchadnezzar.
And it was probably also the

676
00:43:09,300 –> 00:43:13,100
year in which he saw the vision
of the great image in connection

677
00:43:13,100 –> 00:43:16,000
with which it was said.
Said to him, thou art this head

678
00:43:16,000 –> 00:43:20,500
of gold this year has therefore
some special claims to be

679
00:43:20,500 –> 00:43:24,100
considered as a very principled,
starting point of the times of

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00:43:24,100 –> 00:43:30,300
the Gentiles measured from it.
The period Runs Out In AD 1917

681
00:43:30,300 –> 00:43:32,500
is not amazing.
It was an incredible letter and

682
00:43:32,500 –> 00:43:36,400
it’s such a shame that the Daily
Telegraph chose not to publish.

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00:43:38,800 –> 00:43:42,200
We want to consider now that the
League of Nations in 1922,

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00:43:42,200 –> 00:43:44,800
because you might not know this,
because I think the story of the

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Balfour, Declaration tends to
conclude where we’ve just left

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00:43:47,300 –> 00:43:51,000
off, but we’ll just go forward.
Now, five years.

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00:43:52,700 –> 00:43:54,200
So just five years.
And after the Balfour,

688
00:43:54,200 –> 00:43:57,600
Declaration everything, actually
in Britain, hung in the balance

689
00:43:57,900 –> 00:44:00,700
because there was growing
International pressure for

690
00:44:00,700 –> 00:44:02,800
Britain.
To stand, aside from Israel, in

691
00:44:02,800 –> 00:44:08,000
fact, on June the 21st, 1922
just five years after After the

692
00:44:08,300 –> 00:44:12,300
Declaration was issued, the
House of Lords, debated,

693
00:44:12,300 –> 00:44:15,200
Britain, support of the Mandate
of Palestine.

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00:44:15,900 –> 00:44:21,300
Not the house of parliament, the
House of Lords The motion to

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00:44:21,300 –> 00:44:25,100
abandon the Balfour.
Declaration was actually passed

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00:44:25,100 –> 00:44:27,000
in 1922, I don’t know if you
know that.

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00:44:27,000 –> 00:44:33,800
Did you know that?
It was passed by 62 29 votes.

698
00:44:34,700 –> 00:44:37,700
So after all that work, Britain
was about to walk away from the

699
00:44:37,700 –> 00:44:41,000
Declaration and everything
looked incredibly bleak.

700
00:44:42,000 –> 00:44:47,900
And so it fell to one man.
Winston Churchill to answer this

701
00:44:47,900 –> 00:44:53,000
Motion in the House of Commons.
As the saying goes cometh.

702
00:44:53,000 –> 00:44:56,800
The hour cometh, the man, his
speech was powerful.

703
00:44:56,800 –> 00:44:59,700
It was long, it was appealing to
his countrymen, he said, words

704
00:44:59,700 –> 00:45:03,300
such as a Jewish National home
in Palestine, should be

705
00:45:03,300 –> 00:45:07,500
internationally, guaranteed.
And then he goes on to say, and

706
00:45:07,500 –> 00:45:11,600
formally recognized to rest upon
its ancient historic connection.

707
00:45:11,700 –> 00:45:15,200
It was a moving speech and it
required all of his abilities.

708
00:45:15,500 –> 00:45:20,300
And at the end, the common
supported, the Balfour,

709
00:45:20,300 –> 00:45:28,100
Declaration. 292 votes for, and
35 votes against.

710
00:45:29,100 –> 00:45:33,100
It was a persuasive speech.
It’s swung the opinion of

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00:45:33,300 –> 00:45:36,600
parliament, but of course, God
was behind it all.

712
00:45:36,600 –> 00:45:38,800
And so, then we have the League
of Nations.

713
00:45:38,800 –> 00:45:41,700
And so it was submitted to the
League of Nations on the 24th of

714
00:45:41,700 –> 00:45:46,100
July. 1922 following this
extraordinary speech of Winston,

715
00:45:46,100 –> 00:45:49,500
Churchill and the House of
Commons and it was approved.

716
00:45:49,500 –> 00:45:51,900
It was ratified the doubt that
the bar, Dolphin.

717
00:45:51,900 –> 00:45:54,900
The Balfour, Declaration and
became official.

718
00:45:54,900 –> 00:46:01,400
It became international law, so
that we should ask ourselves the

719
00:46:01,400 –> 00:46:03,900
question.
If we look back with the benefit

720
00:46:03,900 –> 00:46:07,400
of hindsight, what is the
historical significance and

721
00:46:07,400 –> 00:46:09,100
importance of the Balfour
Declaration?

722
00:46:09,700 –> 00:46:11,600
What difference did it really
make?

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00:46:11,600 –> 00:46:14,900
If anything now I’m going to
call upon Lord Rothschild.

724
00:46:14,900 –> 00:46:17,500
Again, he’s very busy tonight,
I’m going to call upon him

725
00:46:17,500 –> 00:46:20,700
again.
So, answer this question, the

726
00:46:20,700 –> 00:46:22,700
significance.
Sequence of the Balfour,

727
00:46:22,700 –> 00:46:26,900
Declaration.
You may know a number of these

728
00:46:26,900 –> 00:46:32,400
panelists, the importance of the
Declaration to the state of

729
00:46:32,400 –> 00:46:36,400
Israel.
Surely bargain start off by

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00:46:36,400 –> 00:46:41,400
saying it was the foundation
stone of the state and you said

731
00:46:41,400 –> 00:46:45,400
in your excellent book, The Long
Shadow, the Great War, the 20th

732
00:46:45,400 –> 00:46:50,100
century that the Declaration
itself is two-sided.

733
00:46:50,800 –> 00:46:55,900
It was a moral commitment, but
now big you as well to Jews and

734
00:46:55,900 –> 00:47:01,500
Arabs, it had no legal stabbed
during the Public Act of

735
00:47:01,500 –> 00:47:05,300
recognition designers who was to
be formalized after church or

736
00:47:05,300 –> 00:47:09,800
presented to Parliament the
church or white paper in 1922

737
00:47:10,400 –> 00:47:14,500
which is emphatic.
In its support of Zionism that

738
00:47:14,500 –> 00:47:17,900
paper was submitted to the
League of Nations in Geneva and

739
00:47:17,900 –> 00:47:21,200
approved.
And as vitamin Go to YouTube

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00:47:21,200 –> 00:47:27,000
represented, the Magna carter of
Liberation, a decisive event in

741
00:47:27,000 –> 00:47:32,700
Jewish history, and it gave
Zionism the legal right to move

742
00:47:32,700 –> 00:47:36,300
towards statehood.
And that in turn led to the

743
00:47:36,300 –> 00:47:40,500
establishment of the state of
Israel, following United Nations

744
00:47:40,500 –> 00:47:45,400
resolution of 1947.
So after 2,000 years of

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00:47:45,400 –> 00:47:49,400
persecution, the Jews were at
last to return home.

746
00:47:50,500 –> 00:47:56,500
And as the parrot touching the
Robert Frost wrote in the death

747
00:47:56,500 –> 00:48:01,100
of the heart man.
Home is the place where when you

748
00:48:01,100 –> 00:48:06,700
go there they have to take you
in and every Jew in the world

749
00:48:07,200 –> 00:48:10,000
has the right of return to live
in Israel.

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00:48:13,000 –> 00:48:16,500
It’s fascinating, isn’t it that
the opening Words, Their of Lord

751
00:48:16,500 –> 00:48:19,300
Rothschild with these words?
The Declaration was the

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00:48:19,300 –> 00:48:24,400
foundation, stone of the state
of Israel in the year 1917.

753
00:48:24,400 –> 00:48:26,300
So, he couldn’t be any clearer.
Could he?

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00:48:28,700 –> 00:48:34,300
It’s moving to think that at the
end of balfour’s life on his

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00:48:34,300 –> 00:48:40,100
deathbed, Vice woman was the
only friend admitted to see him.

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00:48:42,400 –> 00:48:44,700
Mrs. Dugdale Bow Falls.
Nice.

757
00:48:44,700 –> 00:48:50,400
And biographer wrote these words
when vitamin goes in to see

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00:48:50,600 –> 00:48:54,500
Balfour, one last time, let me
read these words to you again

759
00:48:54,500 –> 00:48:55,900
that they’re very poignant
words.

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00:48:56,800 –> 00:49:00,400
She says no words were said
between them.

761
00:49:01,100 –> 00:49:03,100
For Balfour was very weak and
dr.

762
00:49:03,100 –> 00:49:07,700
Vaisman much overcome Balfour
moved his head and touch the

763
00:49:07,700 –> 00:49:12,100
bowed head of his visitor, in
the Silence of the room, the

764
00:49:12,100 –> 00:49:15,100
bond between them could be
feld’s.

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00:49:16,200 –> 00:49:19,800
Two.
Great men raised in a particular

766
00:49:19,800 –> 00:49:27,600
time for a very special purpose.
Well, way back in 18-49 brother,

767
00:49:27,600 –> 00:49:31,600
John Thomas wrote elpis Israel
is quite staggering that he

768
00:49:31,600 –> 00:49:33,900
wrote these words which were
going to share in a moment

769
00:49:33,900 –> 00:49:38,400
concerning the course of
Britain. 70 years, before the

770
00:49:38,400 –> 00:49:42,100
Balfour, Declaration was issued.
Now this man was not inspired.

771
00:49:42,500 –> 00:49:46,000
But because of his careful,
meticulous, reading, and

772
00:49:46,000 –> 00:49:48,700
understanding of God’s word,
these are the conclusions.

773
00:49:48,700 –> 00:49:54,400
He came to, he says these words
in 18-49, I know not, whether

774
00:49:54,400 –> 00:49:58,100
the men who are present
contrived, the foreign policy of

775
00:49:58,100 –> 00:50:01,800
Britain entertain, the idea of
assuming the sovereignty of the

776
00:50:01,800 –> 00:50:06,200
Holy Land which would take place
in 1917 that the Finger of God

777
00:50:06,200 –> 00:50:09,400
has indicated a course to be
pursued by Britain, which cannot

778
00:50:09,400 –> 00:50:11,900
be evaded.
And which are counselors will

779
00:50:11,900 –> 00:50:16,800
not only We be willing but eager
to adopt when the crisis comes

780
00:50:16,800 –> 00:50:19,600
upon them and that’s exactly
what happened as we’ve seen

781
00:50:19,600 –> 00:50:22,900
tonight.
So, what about then?

782
00:50:22,900 –> 00:50:25,600
The Centenary celebrations in
our final section.

783
00:50:25,600 –> 00:50:29,300
As we think back in December of
last year, what was happening in

784
00:50:29,300 –> 00:50:30,800
Israel?
What was happening in Britain?

785
00:50:32,700 –> 00:50:35,900
Well on the day of the
anniversary on December the 11th

786
00:50:35,900 –> 00:50:40,400
2017.
There was a special anniversary

787
00:50:40,400 –> 00:50:45,500
and Benjamin Netanyahu flew into
to Britain flew into London.

788
00:50:45,500 –> 00:50:50,600
The Israel prime minister to be
with Mrs, May and you can see

789
00:50:50,600 –> 00:50:54,100
they’re viewing the Balfour,
Declaration and Lord Jacob.

790
00:50:54,100 –> 00:50:58,200
There is on the right hand side
and that evening mrs.

791
00:50:58,200 –> 00:51:02,500
May hosted a dinner at Lancaster
house and these were the words

792
00:51:03,000 –> 00:51:07,200
That she not only issue to the
Israeli government but to the

793
00:51:07,200 –> 00:51:10,000
press to the world and just
listen to these works.

794
00:51:13,200 –> 00:51:19,200
Mine’s back to the time of 1917
in an era of computing Imperial

795
00:51:19,200 –> 00:51:22,600
powers and with Britain.
Still embroiled in the midst of

796
00:51:22,600 –> 00:51:27,500
the first world war, the idea of
establishing a Homeland for the

797
00:51:27,500 –> 00:51:32,300
Jewish people would have seemed
a distant dream for many and

798
00:51:32,300 –> 00:51:34,700
being fiercely opposed by
others.

799
00:51:35,900 –> 00:51:39,700
It was at this very moment that
Lord, Balfour, had the vision

800
00:51:40,000 –> 00:51:43,800
and the leadership to make this
profound statement about

801
00:51:43,800 –> 00:51:48,800
restoring A persecuted.
People to a safe and secure home

802
00:51:48,800 –> 00:51:52,600
land and third.
This was a letter that remains

803
00:51:52,600 –> 00:51:57,100
very sensitive for many people
today, but it was not ignorant

804
00:51:57,200 –> 00:52:00,700
of those sensitivities.
Indeed, Balfour, wrote

805
00:52:00,700 –> 00:52:05,000
explicitly that nothing shall be
done, which may Prejudice the

806
00:52:05,000 –> 00:52:07,300
civil.
And religious rights of existing

807
00:52:07,500 –> 00:52:11,100
non-jewish communities in
Palestine or the rights and

808
00:52:11,100 –> 00:52:15,400
political status enjoyed by
Jews, in any other country.

809
00:52:16,600 –> 00:52:19,900
So when some people suggest we
should apologize for this

810
00:52:19,900 –> 00:52:33,600
letter, I say absolutely not.
We are proud of our pioneering

811
00:52:33,600 –> 00:52:36,300
role in the creation of the
state of Israel.

812
00:52:37,000 –> 00:52:41,000
We are proud to stand here today
together with prime minister

813
00:52:41,000 –> 00:52:46,100
Netanyahu and declare, our
support for Israel and weep.

814
00:52:50,700 –> 00:52:52,500
And we are proud of the
relationship.

815
00:52:52,500 –> 00:52:56,600
We have built with Israel and as
we mark 100 years since by

816
00:52:56,600 –> 00:53:00,500
Alpha, we look forward to taking
that relationship even further.

817
00:53:01,400 –> 00:53:06,100
So you can see there that she
was emphatic in her support and

818
00:53:06,100 –> 00:53:12,700
Britain support of Israel.
Just last December So then in

819
00:53:12,700 –> 00:53:17,700
conclusion, we have seen that
the Balfour Declaration was

820
00:53:17,700 –> 00:53:21,700
indeed the foundation stone of
the, the state of Israel, just

821
00:53:21,700 –> 00:53:24,300
the words of Lord, Jacob
Rothschild himself.

822
00:53:25,100 –> 00:53:28,000
And it’s interesting as we
reflect upon the last 12 months,

823
00:53:28,000 –> 00:53:32,500
that it has been a year of
anniversaries, hasn’t we thought

824
00:53:32,500 –> 00:53:35,400
about December of last year, 100
Years of the Balfour,

825
00:53:35,400 –> 00:53:41,600
Declaration, you can see on the
screen. 70 years of the state of

826
00:53:41,600 –> 00:53:43,500
Israel.
And I was there just two months

827
00:53:43,500 –> 00:53:46,900
ago and it’s extraordinary.
Don’t know how recently anyone

828
00:53:46,900 –> 00:53:52,300
who’s been in Israel.
Israel is covered as a land with

829
00:53:52,300 –> 00:53:56,000
cranes.
Cranes are everywhere.

830
00:53:56,300 –> 00:54:02,500
Roads are being built and
constructed there is now a

831
00:54:02,500 –> 00:54:07,000
monorail that connects Jerusalem
to Tel Aviv and I couldn’t

832
00:54:07,000 –> 00:54:10,200
understand why why all this new
infrastructure.

833
00:54:10,200 –> 00:54:12,500
And so then I was going around
with a rabbi and asked the

834
00:54:12,508 –> 00:54:17,400
rabbi, why all this investment
do you know what the answer was?

835
00:54:18,300 –> 00:54:23,800
We are building for messiah.
There is a heightened

836
00:54:23,800 –> 00:54:30,700
expectation within the land.
And just last year, June of last

837
00:54:30,700 –> 00:54:35,600
year, we have the 50th year
anniversary of the Six Day War,

838
00:54:35,600 –> 00:54:40,600
Three, huge anniversaries.
We seen during the course of the

839
00:54:40,607 –> 00:54:44,000
last 12 months, I’m just going
to leave this with you and then

840
00:54:44,000 –> 00:54:46,100
just a few Reflections and will
conclude.

841
00:54:46,900 –> 00:54:50,300
We have a looked at David Ben
Gurion who proudly stood up and

842
00:54:50,300 –> 00:54:53,100
announced to the world that the
state of Israel had been

843
00:54:53,400 –> 00:54:55,800
established.
And I want to show you this rare

844
00:54:55,800 –> 00:54:59,000
footage.
And you get a sense of

845
00:54:59,000 –> 00:55:03,800
excitement within the land.
And you may even notice a

846
00:55:03,800 –> 00:55:06,100
picture on oil painting behind
David.

847
00:55:06,100 –> 00:55:09,900
Ben-Gurion, and you’ll notice
that, that is a painting of

848
00:55:10,500 –> 00:55:15,000
Theodor herzl the very man who
contacted David, Lloyd, George,

849
00:55:16,300 –> 00:55:20,000
For a plan for establishment of
God’s people within the land.

850
00:55:20,000 –> 00:55:30,400
Look at this rare footage here
on May 14th, 1948 the British

851
00:55:30,400 –> 00:55:33,600
government, terminated its
Palestine mandate and on May

852
00:55:33,600 –> 00:55:38,300
15th, 1948, David, Ben-Gurion
declared the independent state

853
00:55:38,300 –> 00:56:02,400
of Israel.
I need to see this fight.

854
00:56:18,400 –> 00:56:22,700
So leave you with these tools as
we reflect, then as a community

855
00:56:22,700 –> 00:56:27,100
on the 70th anniversary of the
state of Israel, as we look back

856
00:56:27,100 –> 00:56:30,400
and we think and we reflect upon
the Centenary anniversary of the

857
00:56:30,400 –> 00:56:36,800
Balfour Declaration, I encourage
you not to forget Balfour,

858
00:56:37,600 –> 00:56:41,900
Lloyd, George VI’s, man,
Churchill Allenby, the

859
00:56:41,900 –> 00:56:46,800
Rothschild family.
And young Dorothy in the purpose

860
00:56:46,800 –> 00:56:52,500
of God.
But most importantly, in all

861
00:56:52,500 –> 00:56:56,100
these moments that we’ve shared
with you this night, in all

862
00:56:56,100 –> 00:57:00,400
these incredibly providential
moments, we see God.

863
00:57:01,500 –> 00:57:03,800
We see the god of Israel at
work.

864
00:57:05,300 –> 00:57:10,800
And he is bringing about the
people within the land so that

865
00:57:10,800 –> 00:57:14,000
he could send his son soon to
establish God’s Kingdom.

866
00:57:15,500 –> 00:57:20,000
The Lord God declares in the
scriptures, young people that

867
00:57:20,000 –> 00:57:24,900
his land and his people are a
living witness, but he is the

868
00:57:24,900 –> 00:57:29,200
Living.
God, We are living in truly

869
00:57:29,200 –> 00:57:33,200
momentous times.
We pray for the Peace of

870
00:57:33,207 –> 00:57:53,700
Jerusalem.
Thank you for listening to the

871
00:57:53,700 –> 00:57:55,500
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podcast.

872
00:57:56,200 –> 00:57:58,200
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your walk.

873
00:57:58,700 –> 00:58:01,000
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