{"id":506,"date":"2022-06-16T05:05:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T05:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/195-stephen-whitehouse-1917-the-state-of-israel\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T04:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T04:09:30","slug":"195-stephen-whitehouse-1917-the-state-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/195-stephen-whitehouse-1917-the-state-of-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"195: Stephen Whitehouse – 1917: The State of Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we are listening to the Evening Program from the 2018 Whatshan Lake Bible School given by Bro. Stephen Whitehouse titled, \u201c1917: The State of Israel\u201d<\/p>\n

We hope this strengthens your Faith and brightens your day!<\/p>\n

Thank you for listening, God bless, and talk to you next week.<\/p>\n

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\nWelcome to good for selfie and
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\nI’m Levi and I’m Chris and I’m
\nBrian, thank you for joining us <\/p>\n

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\nthis week.
\nOn this podcast, we select one <\/p>\n

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\ntaco week to help us get the
\nBible in our daily news feed. <\/p>\n

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\nWe post a new episode of the
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\nintro before.
\nHand to kind of set the stage <\/p>\n

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\nfor the talk.
\nYou’re about to listen to and <\/p>\n

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\nnow let’s talk more about this
\nweek’s talk <\/p>\n

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\nfor this week.
\nWe’re listening to a class that <\/p>\n

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\nwas given by Brother Stephen
\nWhite House at the water. <\/p>\n

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\nSean Lake Bible School in 2018.
\nAnd the subject of his talk is <\/p>\n

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\n1978 a miraculous year that
\nbrought about the state of <\/p>\n

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\nIsrael.
\nThis class was recommended to us<\/p>\n

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\na while back and I really
\nenjoyed it. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is one of those looking
\nback into history and seeing <\/p>\n

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\nkind of the thread and the weave
\nof God, working in our world, <\/p>\n

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\ntaking a really deep dive and
\nlooking at the history in <\/p>\n

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\nEngland that led to Israel being
\nformed as a nation again for the<\/p>\n

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\nStephen was able to take a very
\nunique view of some of the <\/p>\n

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\nhistorical.
\nRecords and be able to actually <\/p>\n

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\nsee some of those records and a
\nstudy that he was doing and just<\/p>\n

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\nlistening to me talk about it.
\nThe excitement that he has is <\/p>\n

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\nreally interesting and it’s a
\ngreat example of the way that we<\/p>\n

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\ncan even look in our own lives
\nat examples of the way things, <\/p>\n

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\nsometimes just seem to work out
\nin our lives, in ways that don’t<\/p>\n

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\nseem to always make sense to
\nencourage your faith. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd I know sometimes looking
\ninto history and how events were<\/p>\n

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\nput in place, In such a way to
\nbe able to establish God’s plan <\/p>\n

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\nto be encouraging source of a
\ngrowing of my own faith. <\/p>\n

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\nSo I hope this class is
\nencouraging to you as well for <\/p>\n

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\nthat same reason.
\nLike I said, it was a real <\/p>\n

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\ninteresting one to listen to and
\nfascinating the amount of <\/p>\n

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\nevidence that brother Stephen
\nwas able to find in his studies.<\/p>\n

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\nSo as always if you have
\nrecommendations, please send <\/p>\n

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\nthose into our email address.
\nWe appreciate it. <\/p>\n

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\nAny and all recommendation
\npeople send their way. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so with that I will turn it
\nover to our brother Stephen <\/p>\n

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\nWhite House for his class on the
\nyear 1917. <\/p>\n

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\nSo what we’re going to do
\ntonight is to look at a huge <\/p>\n

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\nmilestone and purpose of God,
\nwe’re going to look at the year <\/p>\n

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\n1917.
\nBut before we look at that, <\/p>\n

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\nwe’re just going to provide a
\nbit of an introduction to the <\/p>\n

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\nimportance of this year.
\nSo isn’t it amazing that it’s <\/p>\n

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\nthis particular year of the
\nBible School? <\/p>\n

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\nThe nation of Israel has
\ncelebrated. <\/p>\n

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\nIts 70th year anniversary.
\nThis is the year May the 14th <\/p>\n

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\n2018.
\nAnd that is incredibly <\/p>\n

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\nsignificant, isn’t it?
\nIt is so significant that the <\/p>\n

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\nnation of Israel has celebrated
\nits 70th anniversary. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd when we look at this, we
\nlook at this picture here, this <\/p>\n

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\nis David Ben-Gurion and he’s
\ngetting up and he’s announcing <\/p>\n

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\nto the world, in 1948, on the
\n14th of May he’s announcing that<\/p>\n

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\nthe state of Israel has been
\nestablished. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd as we know, as
\nchristadelphians as Disciples of<\/p>\n

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\nthe Lord, Jesus Christ, this was
\na tremendous fulfillment of <\/p>\n

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\nBible prophecy.
\nBut we’re going to look at the <\/p>\n

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\nDouble year.
\nAnother year in the plan of God <\/p>\n

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\n1917, we’re going to see that.
\nThat was a critical milestone in<\/p>\n

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\nthe establishment of the state
\nof Israel and the return of the <\/p>\n

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\nJews.
\nBack to the land as a witness <\/p>\n

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\nthat God almighty.
\nGod, is the great Creator <\/p>\n

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\nYahweh.
\nAnd in 1917, brothers and <\/p>\n

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\nsisters and young people.
\nIt was a year that the world was<\/p>\n

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\nat War and we’re going to just
\nlook at the context of this <\/p>\n

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\nparticular year tonight.
\nAnd God willing, we’re going to <\/p>\n

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\nsee that.
\nYes, of course, we all recognize<\/p>\n

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\nthe importance of 1948, but
\nwe’re going to also appreciate <\/p>\n

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\nthat. 1917 was indeed a
\nmiraculous Year, and I hope I <\/p>\n

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\ncan share that with you tonight.
\nParticularly the younger ones in<\/p>\n

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\nthe audience that it was a
\nmiraculous year. <\/p>\n

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\nSo anyway, then we’ve got this
\ntalk and it’s broken up into <\/p>\n

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\nfive parts.
\nLet’s just work through this. <\/p>\n

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\nSo first of all, then we’re
\ngoing to look at a number of key<\/p>\n

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\nindividuals around. she had 1917
\nand 1917 is the year of the <\/p>\n

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\nBalfour, Declaration, the
\nBalfour, Declaration and <\/p>\n

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\nDecember of last year, the
\nBalfour, Declaration celebrated,<\/p>\n

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\nits Centenary, its 100-year
\nanniversary. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so this was critical in the
\nestablishment of the land of <\/p>\n

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\nIsrael.
\nSo we’re going to look at the <\/p>\n

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\nindividuals involved in the
\ndevelopment of the Balfour <\/p>\n

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\nDeclaration.
\nSo we’re going to look at but <\/p>\n

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\nLord, Balfour, David Lloyd,
\nGeorge church and advisement. <\/p>\n

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\nYou may have heard a number of
\nthose people before. <\/p>\n

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\nThen we’re going to share some
\nresearch in the Rothschild <\/p>\n

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\narchives will come to that in a
\nmoment. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd then, we’re going to
\nconsider the work of General <\/p>\n

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\nAllenby and his March into
\nJerusalem. <\/p>\n

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\nThen we’re going to go forward a
\nlittle bit in time and look at <\/p>\n

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\nthe ratification of the League
\nof Nations in 1922. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd then we’re going to just
\nreflect in our conclusion, <\/p>\n

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\nDecember the end of last year,
\nthe Centenary celebrations of <\/p>\n

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\nthe Balfour Declaration and it’s
\nimportant, and it’s <\/p>\n

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\nsignificance.
\nOkay? <\/p>\n

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\nSo it’s a very simple structure
\nand hopefully you’ll find it <\/p>\n

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\nhelpful Illuminating and
\nexhortation on because that’s <\/p>\n

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\nthe point of tonight.
\nSo first of all, then we’re <\/p>\n

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\ngoing to look at some of the
\nindividuals around the year. <\/p>\n

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\nhaven’t seen that brought about
\nthe Balfour Declaration and <\/p>\n

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\nwe’re going to see that these
\nmembers of the British cabinet <\/p>\n

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\nor had a very interesting
\nhistory and a good story to tell<\/p>\n

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\nSo, first of all, then we have
\nLord, Balfour, himself, the <\/p>\n

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\nBalfour Declaration.
\nAnd we know that the Balfour <\/p>\n

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\nfamily was in that, in fact, a
\nreligious family. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd, and they read their Bibles
\nevery single day. <\/p>\n

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\nSo, there was Bible reading
\nwithin the Balfour, family. <\/p>\n

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\nIt was also believed that
\nBalfour is a little boy, had a <\/p>\n

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\nchristadelphians nanny.
\nAnd this nanny gave him a copy. <\/p>\n

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\nAs a young boy of elpis Israel.
\nWe certainly know for a fact <\/p>\n

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\nthat brother Rob.
\nRoberts. <\/p>\n

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\nContacted Lord, Balfour in 1890
\nand gave them a copy of Nazareth<\/p>\n

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\nRevisited and where Lord Balfour
\ndied, CC Walker, the editor of <\/p>\n

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\nthe christadelphians office.
\nAt the time was invited to the <\/p>\n

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\nfuneral.
\nIsn’t that fascinating? <\/p>\n

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\nNow we have David George, he was
\na Welshman and his father died <\/p>\n

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\nwhen he was two.
\nNow, the importance of David <\/p>\n

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\nGeorge was that he was going to
\nbecome the prime minister in the<\/p>\n

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\nyear 1917.
\nSo his father died when he was <\/p>\n

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\ntwo years of age and he was
\nbrought up by his mother and his<\/p>\n

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\nuncle and his uncle went by the
\nname of Lloyd and his uncle was <\/p>\n

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\na Methodist preacher and in
\nCognition of the work of his <\/p>\n

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\nUncle David, George became David
\nLloyd, George later, on in life.<\/p>\n

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\nNow amazingly, we know
\nconcerning David Lloyd. <\/p>\n

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\nGeorge.
\nThe prime minister of 1917 that <\/p>\n

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\nhe even testified that he
\nactually understood the Kings of<\/p>\n

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\nIsrael before he knew the Kings
\nof England, which was a bit of a<\/p>\n

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\nproblem given that he was going
\nto become the Prime Minister. <\/p>\n

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\nNow, this is interesting at the
\nage of 14, he left school to <\/p>\n

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\npractice law and by the way he
\nbecame A much respected lay <\/p>\n

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\npreacher in his local wealth
\nChapel. <\/p>\n

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\nSo I’ll a far cry from British
\npolitics today. <\/p>\n

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\nSo I want you to imagine this
\nDavid Lloyd. <\/p>\n

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\nGeorge had no aspiration, the
\ntime to go into politics and he <\/p>\n

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\nbecomes the lawyer.
\nAnd he settles in a practice in <\/p>\n

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\nWales, and he is 14 years of
\nage. <\/p>\n

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\nNow, just listen to this.
\nThis is amazing. <\/p>\n

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\nOne of his first projects as a
\nlawyer was to draw up a plan for<\/p>\n

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\na new client.
\nAnd the new client was Theodor <\/p>\n

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\nherzl, Theodor.
\nHerzl contacted. <\/p>\n

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\nThis little Welsh practice had
\nno idea that David Lloyd George <\/p>\n

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\nwould later become the Prime
\nMinister and and Theodor herzl <\/p>\n

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\ncontacted him from Vienna
\nAustria and the Project’s. <\/p>\n

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\nWhat was the project for a
\nyoung? <\/p>\n

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\nDavid Lloyd?
\nGeorge. <\/p>\n

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\nThe project was to develop a
\ncharter for a Jewish settlement.<\/p>\n

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\nThe first Charter in almost
\n2,000 years. <\/p>\n

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\nIsn’t that staggering?
\nIn fact, Lloyd George presented <\/p>\n

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\nthis Charter to the foreign
\noffice in 1903. <\/p>\n

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\nWell, Balfour was the prime
\nminister at the time. <\/p>\n

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\nIt would take another decade for
\nLloyd George to come together <\/p>\n

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\nwith bow for where Lloyd George
\nwould be prime minister and <\/p>\n

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\nBalfour, would be the foreign
\nsecretary that would bring about<\/p>\n

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\nthe Balfour, Declaration later,
\nbut isn’t that amazing? <\/p>\n

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\nBut young, David Lloyd, George
\npresented to Balfour in 10 <\/p>\n

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\nDowning Street.
\nIt’s also believed having done a<\/p>\n

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\nbit of research on this that
\nthere’s a brother Joe Thomas <\/p>\n

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\nfrom Nestle Ecclesia in Wales
\nthat serve David Lloyd George. <\/p>\n

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\nAt this time, it’s not fantasy
\nfascinating, these involvements <\/p>\n

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\nof christadelphians with the
\nsenior politicians. <\/p>\n

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\nNow, if we look elsewhere within
\nthe cabinet, a number of cabinet<\/p>\n

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\nmembers were Believers in
\nrestoration Theory, don’t know <\/p>\n

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\nwhether you know young people.
\nWhat restoration theory is <\/p>\n

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\nRestoration theory is all about
\na belief that the Jews will go <\/p>\n

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\nback to the land before Jesus
\nChrist returns and they will <\/p>\n

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\nconvert to Christianity before
\nChrist. <\/p>\n

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\nReturns, this is restoration
\nTheory, and there are a number <\/p>\n

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\nseveral leading politicians on
\nthe cabinet during the year of <\/p>\n

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\n1917 that actually subscribed to
\nthis Theory and to, add to the <\/p>\n

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\nnumber.
\nThere was also Winston Churchill<\/p>\n

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\nto everyone’s surprise in July
\n1917 Lloyd, George appointed <\/p>\n

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\nhim, Be the minister of
\nMunitions. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd he joined the cabinet at a
\nquote Lloyd, George. <\/p>\n

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\nHe appointed Churchill for this
\nreason and for this reason only <\/p>\n

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\nto cheer me up when surrounded
\nby gloomy faces much later. <\/p>\n

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\nChurchill said to Dwight
\nEisenhower, the president of <\/p>\n

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\nAmerica.
\nAnd these are interesting words,<\/p>\n

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\nI am, of course, a Zionist.
\nAnd I have been ever since the <\/p>\n

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\nBalfour Declaration, And what
\nincredible role Winston. <\/p>\n

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\nChurchill would take during the
\nfirst and the second world war. <\/p>\n

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\nCertainly a man, very much
\nraised by God for a particular <\/p>\n

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\npurpose and now we come to dr.
\nKind Iseman. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd he picked up where Theodor
\nherzl left off. <\/p>\n

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\nHe was a Jewish immigrant from
\nRussia. <\/p>\n

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\nI’m sure many of, you know, he
\nwas a brilliant scientist he was<\/p>\n

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\nappointed professor in chemistry
\nat the University of Geneva in <\/p>\n

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\n1901, but because of the anti
\nsymmetric Feelings across <\/p>\n

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\nEurope.
\nHe came to England. <\/p>\n

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\nHe couldn’t actually find a job
\nin London and so he took up a <\/p>\n

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\npost at Manchester University in
\n1904 In 1906 Balfour, was busy <\/p>\n

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\ncampaigning for another term as
\nprime minister and he was in his<\/p>\n

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\nelection headquarters in
\nManchester hotel and he set <\/p>\n

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\naside 15 minutes to meet this
\nman. <\/p>\n

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\nKind of Iseman are well-known
\nprofessor at that time at <\/p>\n

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\nManchester United and Manchester
\nUniversity and they were to meet<\/p>\n

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\nfor 50.
\nI think I said United there. <\/p>\n

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\nSo they would something for 15
\nminutes and actually they met <\/p>\n

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\nfor an hour.
\nOkay, that’s a hotel in <\/p>\n

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\nManchester.
\nLet me just be clear. <\/p>\n

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\nWhen they met Balfour, our
\nservicemen, why are the zionists<\/p>\n

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\nwere bitterly opposed to the
\nUgandan offer the yolk, the <\/p>\n

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\noffer Uganda or Kenya today was
\nwas in response to the the <\/p>\n

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\nterrible pogroms that were
\ntaking place in Russia. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd the view was that Uganda
\nwould be a place of respite and <\/p>\n

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\nrefuge for the Jews.
\nAnd history tells us that <\/p>\n

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\nvitamin was very angry with
\nBalfour who was prime minister <\/p>\n

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\nat the time.
\nAnd this is what vitamin said to<\/p>\n

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\nbalfour’s question and listen to
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\nAnd this, I think catches really
\nthe spirit of Iseman, if Moses <\/p>\n

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\nhad come into the sixth Zionist
\nCongress. <\/p>\n

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\nWhen it was adopting, the
\nresolution in favor of the <\/p>\n

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\ncommission of Uganda, he was
\nsurely a broken, the tables once<\/p>\n

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\nagain.
\nYears later, advised one wrote <\/p>\n

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\nin his Memoirs.
\nSo just recording the moment <\/p>\n

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\nwhen he was speaking to Balfour.
\nHe says I was sweating blood and<\/p>\n

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\nI was trying to find some less
\nponderous way of expressing <\/p>\n

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\nmyself, suddenly I said mr.
\nBalfour, supposing, I were to <\/p>\n

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\noffer you Paris instead of
\nLondon, would you take it? <\/p>\n

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\nFair question, he sat up, looked
\nat me and said, but dr. <\/p>\n

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\nVaisman we have London.
\nThat is true. <\/p>\n

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\nI said, but we had Jerusalem
\nwhen London was a marsh. <\/p>\n

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\nHe leaned back and continue to
\nstare at me, I did not see him <\/p>\n

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\nuntil 1914.
\nSo the seeds were planted. <\/p>\n

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\nIt was a view that was not
\naccepted by those who are <\/p>\n

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\nrunning for a general election
\nat the time. <\/p>\n

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\nBut ten years on circumstances
\nin Britain were very different <\/p>\n

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\nor war was being fought and kind
\nof Iseman was found to be <\/p>\n

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\nincredibly useful.
\nSo during the first world war, <\/p>\n

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\nwe’ve now moved forward, 10
\nyears during the first world <\/p>\n

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\nwar, there was a major problem
\nBritain was quickly running out <\/p>\n

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\nof acetone and I’m sure you know
\nthis was critical it was a <\/p>\n

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\ncritical compound for gunpowder.
\nIt was imported from Germany but<\/p>\n

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\ngiven that the British allies
\nwere fighting Germany than that <\/p>\n

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\nwas unacceptable and America
\nwere offering it at unacceptable<\/p>\n

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\nrates.
\nAnd so, then Britain had to come<\/p>\n

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\nup with her own solution.
\nSo the Prime Minister asked <\/p>\n

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\nDavid Lloyd George or David
\nLloyd. <\/p>\n

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\nGeorge asked of Iseman, whether
\nthere was an alternative way of <\/p>\n

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\nmaking acetone in large
\nquantities. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd advisement said, yes and
\nthere’s no actual evidence that <\/p>\n

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\nhe had a theory at that time,
\nbut he said yes and quite <\/p>\n

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\nquickly, he invented a new
\nprocess to reproduce acetone in <\/p>\n

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\nhuge.
\nEntities. <\/p>\n

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\nIt was a brilliant Discovery and
\nit would change the course of <\/p>\n

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\nthe war and by doing so.
\nIt changed the course of <\/p>\n

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\nhistory.
\nNow everyone was delighted back <\/p>\n

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\nhome in Britain.
\nLloyd George the Prime Minister <\/p>\n

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\nlater in his War Memoirs
\nrecords. <\/p>\n

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\nHow he proposed to recommend,
\ndr. <\/p>\n

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\nVaisman for some great honor.
\nBut Wiseman rejected the idea <\/p>\n

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\noutright he didn’t want to have.
\nHe didn’t want to receive any <\/p>\n

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\npersonal rewards, so it’s a
\nLloyd, George then appealed to <\/p>\n

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\nhim, and ask is there nothing.
\nWe can do in recognition of your<\/p>\n

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\nvaluable work that you’ve done
\nfor this country. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd wise man said these Immortal
\nwords, yes, I would like to do <\/p>\n

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\nsomething for my people.
\nBeing a proud June. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so that the British cabinet
\nthat the government there, they <\/p>\n

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\ndeliberated and soon.
\nThey came up with a decision and<\/p>\n

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\nit was the responsibility of
\nLord marks Sykes on the screen <\/p>\n

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\nhere.
\nHe was the Secretary of the wall<\/p>\n

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\ncabinet and he cried the words,
\ndr. <\/p>\n

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\nVaisman, it’s a boy because
\nthere was a genuine sense that <\/p>\n

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\nthis had given birth.
\nTo Israel’s return to the land. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd that interesting have today,
\nhas anyone seen the Balfour <\/p>\n

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\nDeclaration in the flash?
\nAnyone Well today you can see <\/p>\n

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\nthe Declaration.
\nIt’s in the British library in <\/p>\n

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\nLondon.
\nIt’s one long sentence. <\/p>\n

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\nThere’s no punctuation there.
\nIt’s 67 words. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s now just a on a ragged
\npiece of paper in storage, but <\/p>\n

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\nit has cast a long Shadow over
\nthe whole of the 20th century <\/p>\n

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\nand now challenges for the 21st
\ncentury. <\/p>\n

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\nWe want to listen to the
\nBalfour. <\/p>\n

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\nDeclaration.
\nWhat was written? <\/p>\n

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\nAnd who better to call upon now,
\nthe Lord Jacob Rothschild Soul <\/p>\n

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\nor Jacob, Rothschild is the
\ngreat nephew of the recipients <\/p>\n

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\nof the Balfour Declaration who
\nwas Lord, Walter you can see <\/p>\n

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\ntheir lord Rothschild.
\nThat was Lord Walter. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so we’re going to call upon
\nhis great-nephew to read out the<\/p>\n

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\nBalfour, Declaration to us and I
\nthink you’ll find this <\/p>\n

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\ninteresting.
\nIs there Justice government deal<\/p>\n

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\nwith favor?
\nYour strawberries into Palestine<\/p>\n

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\nof a national home for the
\nJewish people and reduce that <\/p>\n

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\nbest endeavours to facilitate
\nthe achievement of this object. <\/p>\n

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\nIt being clearly understood that
\nnothing should be done which may<\/p>\n

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\nPrejudice the civil and
\nreligious rights of existing <\/p>\n

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\nnon-jewish communities in
\nPalestine or the rights and <\/p>\n

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\npolitical strategist enjoyed by
\nJews and any other Come trip. <\/p>\n

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\nI should be grateful if you
\nwould bring this declaration to <\/p>\n

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\nthe knowledge of the zone as
\nFederation, he was Arthur <\/p>\n

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\nBalfour.
\nAnd here it is. <\/p>\n

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\nThe Balfour Declaration.
\nWhat do you feel when you when <\/p>\n

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\nyou see it here?
\nI’ve generally varies with the <\/p>\n

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\nmost extraordinary moments in
\nthe history of the Jewish people<\/p>\n

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\nwho think it took 3,000 years to
\nget to this. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd then you say how did this
\nmiracle happen? <\/p>\n

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\nIndeed, how did this miracle
\nhappen at Lord? <\/p>\n

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\nJacob has asked well, before we
\nget to that, that the question <\/p>\n

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\nis, it’s a reasonable question?
\nIsn’t it how advisement <\/p>\n

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\ninfluence that the British
\ngovernment and the country’s <\/p>\n

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\nElite in the year 1917?
\nBut what we do know, at the end <\/p>\n

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\nof the first world war, he
\nbecame a major celebrity. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd even the young ones I asked
\nthe young ones this morning. <\/p>\n

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\nIf they had heard of Albert
\nEinstein and they said, no, I’m <\/p>\n

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\nsure they were just teasing me,
\nbut there he is young ones. <\/p>\n

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\nThere’s Albert Einstein.
\nHe became a personal friend of <\/p>\n

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\nIseman to brilliant Jews and
\nthey traveled the world, and <\/p>\n

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\nthey were generating funds.
\nActually, for a new political <\/p>\n

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\nmovement in Israel at the end of
\nthe first world war. <\/p>\n

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\nSo he became a major celebrity.
\nIn fact, vitamin became First <\/p>\n

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\npresident of Israel.
\nSo how is this achieved? <\/p>\n

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\nWell.
\nIt’s not obvious. <\/p>\n

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\nThat’s all I can say.
\nWiseman was born in a little <\/p>\n

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\ntown in Russia called Motel.
\nIt was a place that was <\/p>\n

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\ndesignated for the Jews during
\nthe terrible Russian pogroms. <\/p>\n

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\nHe was the third of 15 children,
\nand he was a son of a Timber <\/p>\n

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\nMerchants.
\nSo how could a man, like this, <\/p>\n

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\nwho hardly could speak English
\nhad no money had no reputation. <\/p>\n

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\nHe lived in Manchester away from
\nLondon? <\/p>\n

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\nHe was not able to influence
\nBritish government and the <\/p>\n

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\nestablishment.
\nHow could this be achieved <\/p>\n

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\nthrough this man?
\nIt’s quite incredible, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

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\nIt defies probability so
\nunlikely. <\/p>\n

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\nI asked you did someone else
\nhelped him along the way? <\/p>\n

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\nWell records tell us that there
\nwas help two men on the screen <\/p>\n

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\nhere.
\nCP Scott and Harry satcher from <\/p>\n

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\nthe Manchester Guardian.
\nYou may remember I just said <\/p>\n

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\nabout vitamin being a professor
\nat Manchester University and he <\/p>\n

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\nhad a number of friends
\nbenefactors there at the <\/p>\n

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\nManchester guardian and they
\noffered a huge backing for him, <\/p>\n

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\nbut this is a story that is
\nwell, told if you look in your <\/p>\n

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\nhistory, You books, you will
\nfind that the major support came<\/p>\n

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\nfrom the Manchester post, and
\nI’m going to try and suggest <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:51,700 –> 00:20:57,000
\nthat perhaps there was another
\ninfluence a greater influence <\/p>\n

332
\n00:20:57,400 –> 00:21:00,700
\nthan this.
\nSo, answer this question we now <\/p>\n

333
\n00:21:00,700 –> 00:21:05,600
\ngo to the second section of our
\ntalk tonight and we want to look<\/p>\n

334
\n00:21:05,900 –> 00:21:09,100
\nat the Rothschild family and
\ntheir family archives. <\/p>\n

335
\n00:21:09,700 –> 00:21:16,200
\nWell, last year I wrote to the
\nRothschild family and I wrote To<\/p>\n

336
\n00:21:16,200 –> 00:21:19,500
\nThe Head archivist of the Roth’s
\nchild family, Katherine Taylor. <\/p>\n

337
\n00:21:19,500 –> 00:21:23,500
\nYou can see a picture there and
\nshe is personally hand-picked by<\/p>\n

338
\n00:21:23,500 –> 00:21:25,000
\nLord.
\nJacob Rothschild. <\/p>\n

339
\n00:21:25,200 –> 00:21:30,000
\nHer job is to oversee all the
\narchives of the Roth’s child <\/p>\n

340
\n00:21:30,000 –> 00:21:32,300
\nfamily.
\nNow, to put this into context, <\/p>\n

341
\n00:21:32,900 –> 00:21:39,000
\nthe Rothschild family,
\ncollectively, own, 1.2 trillion,<\/p>\n

342
\n00:21:39,200 –> 00:21:45,300
\nUS dollars, And the history goes
\nall the way back. <\/p>\n

343
\n00:21:45,700 –> 00:21:47,600
\nThey were supporting
\ngovernments. <\/p>\n

344
\n00:21:48,000 –> 00:21:50,000
\nThey were the founders of
\nEurope. <\/p>\n

345
\n00:21:51,400 –> 00:21:55,400
\nAnd so I asked, could we come in
\nand see their archives? <\/p>\n

346
\n00:21:56,100 –> 00:21:59,400
\nWell, their archives are at a
\nwhat is sin. <\/p>\n

347
\n00:21:59,400 –> 00:22:02,900
\nIf anyone’s being to what a
\ncertain manner in England, it’s <\/p>\n

348
\n00:22:02,900 –> 00:22:06,300
\nat the Watterson archived there
\nat Wind Mill Hill in in <\/p>\n

349
\n00:22:06,300 –> 00:22:10,100
\nbuckinghamshire and so when I
\nwent to the request I had to <\/p>\n

350
\n00:22:10,100 –> 00:22:12,300
\nexplain who I was and I
\nexplained I was a <\/p>\n

351
\n00:22:12,300 –> 00:22:14,400
\nchristadelphians.
\nI explained to the <\/p>\n

352
\n00:22:14,400 –> 00:22:18,500
\nchristadelphians were And how
\nthey have supported the Jews and<\/p>\n

353
\n00:22:18,508 –> 00:22:21,500
\nthey were particularly
\ninterested to hear that the Jews<\/p>\n

354
\n00:22:21,500 –> 00:22:26,800
\nwere supported when they were
\nfounding the early Parts in <\/p>\n

355
\n00:22:26,800 –> 00:22:28,400
\nPalestine.
\nAt the beginning of the last <\/p>\n

356
\n00:22:28,400 –> 00:22:30,800
\ncentury, they were particularly
\ninterested that the <\/p>\n

357
\n00:22:30,800 –> 00:22:33,000
\nchristadelphians were there,
\nwhich they were with Brethren, <\/p>\n

358
\n00:22:33,000 –> 00:22:36,500
\nlike, Frank Jana way.
\nThey were there supporting the <\/p>\n

359
\n00:22:36,500 –> 00:22:40,400
\nearly movement of the Jews in
\ntheir early settlements. <\/p>\n

360
\n00:22:41,000 –> 00:22:45,400
\nAnd then I told her about this
\nwork that I Was preparing, and <\/p>\n

361
\n00:22:45,400 –> 00:22:48,300
\nshe was really interested.
\nIn fact, she gave us a personal <\/p>\n

362
\n00:22:48,300 –> 00:22:51,800
\ninvitation and so sister
\nLindsay, and, and myself and our<\/p>\n

363
\n00:22:51,800 –> 00:22:54,300
\nthree children went to handle
\nthe archives, but we didn’t <\/p>\n

364
\n00:22:54,300 –> 00:22:58,800
\nallow the children to hold them,
\nmuch to their disappointment <\/p>\n

365
\n00:22:59,600 –> 00:23:01,500
\neven though they don’t
\nunderstand why they weren’t <\/p>\n

366
\n00:23:01,500 –> 00:23:04,800
\nallowed anyway.
\nSo we went through the private <\/p>\n

367
\n00:23:04,800 –> 00:23:08,100
\narchives that the letters and
\nthese letters were between the <\/p>\n

368
\n00:23:08,100 –> 00:23:11,700
\nRothschilds advisement.
\nChurchill bow for David Lloyd, <\/p>\n

369
\n00:23:11,700 –> 00:23:15,200
\nGeorge Allen, B, and many, many
\nmore and what a privilege it was<\/p>\n

370
\n00:23:15,500 –> 00:23:17,700
\nto go through.
\nThese letters and this is what <\/p>\n

371
\n00:23:17,700 –> 00:23:20,700
\nwe want to share tonight.
\nWell, before we get into these <\/p>\n

372
\n00:23:20,700 –> 00:23:24,000
\nletters, first of all, we need
\nto remember that. <\/p>\n

373
\n00:23:24,000 –> 00:23:27,000
\nThe recipient of the Balfour,
\nDeclaration was Lord, Walter <\/p>\n

374
\n00:23:27,300 –> 00:23:30,400
\nLord, Walter Rothschild.
\nAnd this man was a total <\/p>\n

375
\n00:23:30,400 –> 00:23:33,100
\neccentric.
\nHe doesn’t look like that, <\/p>\n

376
\n00:23:33,100 –> 00:23:36,200
\nexcept for his bowler hat, but
\nhe was, he was a total <\/p>\n

377
\n00:23:36,200 –> 00:23:39,100
\neccentric.
\nBut surprisingly he was <\/p>\n

378
\n00:23:39,100 –> 00:23:44,800
\nconverted by, I’ve Iseman to
\nbecome a passionate Zionist at a<\/p>\n

379
\n00:23:44,808 –> 00:23:47,600
\ntime.
\nWhen he’s only great interest <\/p>\n

380
\n00:23:47,600 –> 00:23:52,200
\nwas to create the finest,
\nprivate collection of Natural <\/p>\n

381
\n00:23:52,200 –> 00:23:54,600
\nHistory.
\nSpecimens ever made by one man. <\/p>\n

382
\n00:23:54,700 –> 00:23:57,900
\nThese are his words and he
\nsucceeded in doing. <\/p>\n

383
\n00:23:57,900 –> 00:24:01,800
\nSo, so those of you been to
\nEngland, you may have actually <\/p>\n

384
\n00:24:01,800 –> 00:24:05,200
\ngone to the Natural History
\nMuseum in tring just north of <\/p>\n

385
\n00:24:05,200 –> 00:24:07,300
\nLondon.
\nAnd this is his Museum of all <\/p>\n

386
\n00:24:07,300 –> 00:24:09,700
\nthe various things that he is.
\nDiscovered. <\/p>\n

387
\n00:24:09,700 –> 00:24:13,100
\nHe house them there in this
\nparticular Museum, but he was <\/p>\n

388
\n00:24:13,100 –> 00:24:15,900
\neccentric, Lord, Walter never
\nmarried. <\/p>\n

389
\n00:24:16,700 –> 00:24:20,200
\nAnd he would ride around the
\npark in a carriage led by his <\/p>\n

390
\n00:24:20,200 –> 00:24:22,900
\nown zebras, or should I say
\nzebras? <\/p>\n

391
\n00:24:24,000 –> 00:24:29,300
\nAnd he was often seen sitting on
\ntop of one of his 144 giant <\/p>\n

392
\n00:24:29,300 –> 00:24:32,800
\ntortoises that came from the
\nGalapagos Islands. <\/p>\n

393
\n00:24:33,200 –> 00:24:35,500
\nBut nevertheless, there was a
\nserious side to him. <\/p>\n

394
\n00:24:35,500 –> 00:24:37,600
\nHe was a renowned, brilliant
\nscholar. <\/p>\n

395
\n00:24:37,800 –> 00:24:40,600
\nHe was a fellow of the Royal
\nSociety, which is no mean feat. <\/p>\n

396
\n00:24:40,800 –> 00:24:44,600
\nHe actually wrote 1,200 books
\nand papers based upon his own <\/p>\n

397
\n00:24:44,600 –> 00:24:48,300
\nCollections and soon.
\nHe became the lay leader of the <\/p>\n

398
\n00:24:48,300 –> 00:24:51,600
\nJewish movement in Britain.
\nSo when the government decided <\/p>\n

399
\n00:24:51,600 –> 00:24:56,700
\nto support Israel, he was the
\nideal candidate to speak to. <\/p>\n

400
\n00:24:57,800 –> 00:25:00,400
\nAnd so, this is why the Balfour
\nDeclaration was personally <\/p>\n

401
\n00:25:00,400 –> 00:25:05,300
\nwritten to him.
\nNow, while Walter and this is <\/p>\n

402
\n00:25:05,300 –> 00:25:08,100
\nthe part of the story that I
\nfound most intriguing. <\/p>\n

403
\n00:25:08,100 –> 00:25:11,900
\nI hope you do too.
\nSo why are some alter the <\/p>\n

404
\n00:25:11,900 –> 00:25:14,200
\nrecipient of the Balfour?
\nDeclaration was growing zone, <\/p>\n

405
\n00:25:14,200 –> 00:25:17,700
\nPrivate Collection.
\nThere was another Rothschild who<\/p>\n

406
\n00:25:17,700 –> 00:25:22,000
\nis growing in prominence a man
\ncalled James but water was on <\/p>\n

407
\n00:25:22,000 –> 00:25:25,600
\nthe English side of the family
\nJames or Jimmy to his friends <\/p>\n

408
\n00:25:25,600 –> 00:25:28,400
\nwas on the French side of the
\nfamily. <\/p>\n

409
\n00:25:28,600 –> 00:25:35,000
\nNow in 1913, Jimmy married a
\nwoman called Dorothy It was a <\/p>\n

410
\n00:25:35,000 –> 00:25:39,500
\nwhirlwind engagement and it only
\nlasted five and a half weeks. <\/p>\n

411
\n00:25:39,500 –> 00:25:42,200
\nSo actually a little longer than
\na mallet tool in youth <\/p>\n

412
\n00:25:42,200 –> 00:25:47,300
\nconference but nevertheless only
\nfive and a half weeks. <\/p>\n

413
\n00:25:48,500 –> 00:25:53,300
\nDorothy wasn’t even 18 years of
\nage when she was married. <\/p>\n

414
\n00:25:53,500 –> 00:25:57,200
\nAnd only, then she had been
\nallowed to sit with her parents,<\/p>\n

415
\n00:25:57,200 –> 00:26:00,500
\ninstant Albans, at 7:45 every
\nnight to have dinner. <\/p>\n

416
\n00:26:02,100 –> 00:26:06,100
\nSo there was nothing in her past
\nher history, her experience that<\/p>\n

417
\n00:26:06,100 –> 00:26:10,600
\nwas going to prepare herself for
\na life with the most eminent <\/p>\n

418
\n00:26:10,600 –> 00:26:12,400
\nbachelor in Britain.
\nAt that time. <\/p>\n

419
\n00:26:12,700 –> 00:26:17,600
\nJimmy, Rothschild.
\nNow, James was 35 years of age, <\/p>\n

420
\n00:26:17,600 –> 00:26:21,100
\nDorothy was 17, so you can
\nimagine in High Society, it <\/p>\n

421
\n00:26:21,100 –> 00:26:26,200
\nraised a few eyebrows.
\nBrothers and sisters, Providence<\/p>\n

422
\n00:26:26,200 –> 00:26:32,400
\nwas at work in November 1914,
\nwhen Dorothy was only 19 years <\/p>\n

423
\n00:26:32,400 –> 00:26:38,500
\nof age, she heard Vice when
\nlecture on Zionism and she was <\/p>\n

424
\n00:26:38,500 –> 00:26:42,800
\nabsolutely gripped.
\nHer husband was away fighting in<\/p>\n

425
\n00:26:42,800 –> 00:26:47,200
\nthe French army in Paris, and so
\nshe was left at home to <\/p>\n

426
\n00:26:47,200 –> 00:26:50,400
\nrepresent the family.
\nShe was in charge. <\/p>\n

427
\n00:26:51,400 –> 00:26:54,200
\nSo I want you to imagine this a
\nyoung Dorothy, she listens to <\/p>\n

428
\n00:26:54,200 –> 00:26:57,300
\nthis.
\nEminent Professor speaking about<\/p>\n

429
\n00:26:57,300 –> 00:27:01,400
\nZionism and Dorothy decides to
\nspeak to those Iseman at the end<\/p>\n

430
\n00:27:01,400 –> 00:27:06,200
\nof the presentation.
\nAnd she says these words, you <\/p>\n

431
\n00:27:06,200 –> 00:27:10,600
\nreally need to meet my husband
\nbecause he is able to help you. <\/p>\n

432
\n00:27:11,900 –> 00:27:14,800
\nNot now husband had no idea who
\nthis young woman Wars. <\/p>\n

433
\n00:27:15,800 –> 00:27:20,300
\nHe had no idea that she was
\nmarried to Sir lord, Jimmy <\/p>\n

434
\n00:27:20,300 –> 00:27:27,300
\nRothschild had no idea at all.
\nHowever, she went on to say, I <\/p>\n

435
\n00:27:27,300 –> 00:27:32,900
\nfirst need you to be trained in
\nBritish etiquette so that you <\/p>\n

436
\n00:27:32,900 –> 00:27:39,000
\nmake the right impression with
\nmy husband. we are talking about<\/p>\n

437
\n00:27:39,000 –> 00:27:43,300
\nthe highest of society here, the
\npersonal friends of Jimmy were <\/p>\n

438
\n00:27:43,800 –> 00:27:48,700
\nthe cabinet, the Royals, Wealth.
\nRight across Europe. <\/p>\n

439
\n00:27:49,900 –> 00:27:52,600
\nAnd he was just a lowly, I
\nshould say professor. <\/p>\n

440
\n00:27:53,800 –> 00:27:57,900
\nAnd she wanted to invite him
\ninto the circles of her <\/p>\n

441
\n00:27:57,900 –> 00:28:01,500
\ninfluence.
\nAnd that’s exactly what you do. <\/p>\n

442
\n00:28:01,500 –> 00:28:05,100
\nBrothers and sisters in young
\npeople is very moving Ashley and<\/p>\n

443
\n00:28:05,100 –> 00:28:07,900
\nshe does this training in
\nBritish etiquette, with this <\/p>\n

444
\n00:28:07,900 –> 00:28:11,800
\nRussian who spoke very little
\nEnglish at the time and she does<\/p>\n

445
\n00:28:11,800 –> 00:28:15,800
\nit in private without a husband,
\nknowing my sister Lindsay and I <\/p>\n

446
\n00:28:15,800 –> 00:28:17,700
\nwe had the opportunity to go
\nthrough these letters. <\/p>\n

447
\n00:28:17,700 –> 00:28:18,700
\nAnd let me just tell you
\nsomething. <\/p>\n

448
\n00:28:18,700 –> 00:28:21,400
\nHere, we went through these
\npersonal letters and we <\/p>\n

449
\n00:28:21,400 –> 00:28:27,200
\ndiscovered that Dora He wrote to
\nthe Heisman no less than 33 <\/p>\n

450
\n00:28:27,200 –> 00:28:32,600
\ntimes in training him in
\nEtiquette between 1914 and 1916,<\/p>\n

451
\n00:28:32,600 –> 00:28:38,000
\nit is absolutely staggering.
\nDorothy helped Professor Wiseman<\/p>\n

452
\n00:28:38,600 –> 00:28:43,000
\norganized no less than 2,000
\npersonal meetings with the <\/p>\n

453
\n00:28:43,000 –> 00:28:46,700
\nestablishment in Britain.
\nYou think about that 2000 <\/p>\n

454
\n00:28:47,700 –> 00:28:52,600
\npersonal meetings and she helped
\nV has been right a further 1,000<\/p>\n

455
\n00:28:52,600 –> 00:28:56,000
\nletters, how industrious was
\nthat? <\/p>\n

456
\n00:28:56,300 –> 00:28:59,300
\nIt’s incredible.
\nAnd perhaps her involvement <\/p>\n

457
\n00:28:59,300 –> 00:29:05,300
\nactually change the course of
\nthe war. and so then when they <\/p>\n

458
\n00:29:05,300 –> 00:29:09,300
\ndid me, He was well trained in
\netiquette. <\/p>\n

459
\n00:29:10,400 –> 00:29:12,100
\nAnd he had the impact that was
\nneeded. <\/p>\n

460
\n00:29:12,700 –> 00:29:16,500
\nAnd Rothschild, love this man
\nand ushered him into the <\/p>\n

461
\n00:29:16,500 –> 00:29:18,800
\ninfluence of the government and
\nsoon. <\/p>\n

462
\n00:29:18,800 –> 00:29:21,400
\nNow, the government were
\nlistening to Professor Wiseman. <\/p>\n

463
\n00:29:21,400 –> 00:29:23,900
\nCan you imagine that?
\nNow, what’s interesting and this<\/p>\n

464
\n00:29:23,900 –> 00:29:28,000
\nis a side point.
\nWe had to find out by going <\/p>\n

465
\n00:29:28,000 –> 00:29:30,600
\nthrough the letters because and
\nI’m not going to be disparaging <\/p>\n

466
\n00:29:30,600 –> 00:29:33,200
\nbecause they’ve been very good
\nto us as a family and allowing <\/p>\n

467
\n00:29:33,200 –> 00:29:35,800
\nus to go through the archives
\nbut what is clear when you look <\/p>\n

468
\n00:29:35,800 –> 00:29:38,900
\nat history books and when you
\nspeak to the Rothschild family <\/p>\n

469
\n00:29:38,900 –> 00:29:41,200
\nand I’ve got the greatest
\nrespect for them as a family. <\/p>\n

470
\n00:29:42,400 –> 00:29:46,400
\nThey will not mention Dorothy.
\nAnd the reason being is that <\/p>\n

471
\n00:29:46,400 –> 00:29:49,300
\nDorothy was kind of plucked out
\nof obscurity and the <\/p>\n

472
\n00:29:49,300 –> 00:29:53,000
\nestablishment of Israel is to do
\nwith Walter and Jimmy. <\/p>\n

473
\n00:29:53,000 –> 00:29:54,500
\nCan you see the point I’m
\nmaking? <\/p>\n

474
\n00:29:56,000 –> 00:30:00,000
\nWe had to go through the letters
\nto find the real influence here.<\/p>\n

475
\n00:30:00,900 –> 00:30:03,900
\nThe influence through Professor
\nWiseman, isn’t that fascinating?<\/p>\n

476
\n00:30:05,400 –> 00:30:07,300
\nAnd surely for me.
\nAnyway, at least since the <\/p>\n

477
\n00:30:07,300 –> 00:30:09,900
\nsister Lindsay, you know, that
\nthe key message for us was that <\/p>\n

478
\n00:30:09,900 –> 00:30:14,000
\nGod uses the so-called the
\nseeming small and insignificant.<\/p>\n

479
\n00:30:14,000 –> 00:30:18,000
\nThat’s what he does to show that
\nhe is gone, but even in a war, <\/p>\n

480
\n00:30:18,000 –> 00:30:22,300
\nwhen the world was grouped in
\nfear, He’s working with the <\/p>\n

481
\n00:30:22,300 –> 00:30:26,000
\nsmall and insignificant prove to
\nthe world that he is God and <\/p>\n

482
\n00:30:26,000 –> 00:30:27,300
\neverything.
\nIs in his control. <\/p>\n

483
\n00:30:27,300 –> 00:30:29,600
\nIsn’t that fascinating?
\nIsn’t that wonderful? <\/p>\n

484
\n00:30:29,600 –> 00:30:35,600
\nWell, we were certainly joyful
\nas we came across this piece of <\/p>\n

485
\n00:30:35,600 –> 00:30:39,700
\ninformation So that’s Dorothy,
\ndon’t forget about Dorothy, <\/p>\n

486
\n00:30:39,700 –> 00:30:42,100
\ndon’t forget about Dorothy.
\nIt’s a lovely story. <\/p>\n

487
\n00:30:42,700 –> 00:30:45,200
\nNow, we’re going to share
\nanother little story here, which<\/p>\n

488
\n00:30:45,200 –> 00:30:47,200
\nis not well known about General
\nAllenby. <\/p>\n

489
\n00:30:47,200 –> 00:30:49,500
\nNow, you all know about Allenby,
\nhe walked into Jerusalem. <\/p>\n

490
\n00:30:49,500 –> 00:30:52,200
\nWell, let’s just think a little
\nmore about this lamb. <\/p>\n

491
\n00:30:52,800 –> 00:30:57,400
\nWell, General Allenby was
\nnicknamed, The Bull because of <\/p>\n

492
\n00:30:57,400 –> 00:31:01,400
\nhis physical imposing presence.
\nHe was six foot two and he had a<\/p>\n

493
\n00:31:01,800 –> 00:31:05,300
\nimpressive barrel chest.
\nI’m glad he’s not standing with <\/p>\n

494
\n00:31:05,300 –> 00:31:09,600
\nme on the platform.
\nBut anyway, it’s a prior to. <\/p>\n

495
\n00:31:09,700 –> 00:31:12,200
\nSo seriously, prior to the
\nservice, in the Middle East is <\/p>\n

496
\n00:31:12,200 –> 00:31:13,800
\ngoing to go to the Middle East
\nis going to March into <\/p>\n

497
\n00:31:13,800 –> 00:31:18,100
\nJerusalem, but he was given
\ncharge of the third Army and the<\/p>\n

498
\n00:31:18,100 –> 00:31:21,600
\nCavalry on the Western Front.
\nSo he was the one who personally<\/p>\n

499
\n00:31:21,600 –> 00:31:27,900
\nsaw a million soldiers killed.
\nIt was a huge waste. <\/p>\n

500
\n00:31:29,300 –> 00:31:34,200
\nAnd and and there were stalemate
\nthat was going on in the Great <\/p>\n

501
\n00:31:34,200 –> 00:31:37,400
\nWar during that time because
\nnone of the armies could get <\/p>\n

502
\n00:31:37,400 –> 00:31:40,100
\nbeyond the Western Front.
\nAnd so this really then <\/p>\n

503
\n00:31:40,300 –> 00:31:43,100
\nperplexed and exercise, the
\nminds of the British government,<\/p>\n

504
\n00:31:43,100 –> 00:31:46,700
\nwhat were they going to do?
\nWell, they send for this man, <\/p>\n

505
\n00:31:46,700 –> 00:31:51,400
\nthey sent for Lord, Balfour,
\nthey sent for General Allenby, <\/p>\n

506
\n00:31:52,200 –> 00:31:54,300
\nand a bit of history on General
\nAllenby. <\/p>\n

507
\n00:31:55,900 –> 00:31:58,900
\nHe has one child.
\nWe only had one child Michael <\/p>\n

508
\n00:31:59,700 –> 00:32:02,000
\nand Michael.
\nSo we’re going to get into a <\/p>\n

509
\n00:32:02,008 –> 00:32:04,900
\npersonal story here.
\nMichael was enlisted, at a very <\/p>\n

510
\n00:32:04,900 –> 00:32:10,800
\nyoung age at 17.
\nAnd every single day Allenby <\/p>\n

511
\n00:32:10,800 –> 00:32:14,200
\nwould go down to the office
\nwhere War casualties were <\/p>\n

512
\n00:32:14,200 –> 00:32:16,400
\nreported and inquire.
\nThese are the words that are <\/p>\n

513
\n00:32:16,408 –> 00:32:18,500
\nrecorded.
\nHe would say, these words, every<\/p>\n

514
\n00:32:18,500 –> 00:32:24,300
\nsingle day, General Allenby, any
\nnews of my little boy today, so <\/p>\n

515
\n00:32:24,300 –> 00:32:27,300
\nany parent in the room, we can
\nempathize with that Conway. <\/p>\n

516
\n00:32:28,200 –> 00:32:32,200
\nSome was 17 on the Western Front
\nand Allenby would go down and he<\/p>\n

517
\n00:32:32,200 –> 00:32:34,000
\nwould be disguise.
\nHe didn’t want any of the army <\/p>\n

518
\n00:32:34,000 –> 00:32:36,200
\nand in the soldiers are see him
\nbecause he was leading the <\/p>\n

519
\n00:32:36,200 –> 00:32:38,600
\ntroops.
\nBut he was acutely concerned <\/p>\n

520
\n00:32:38,600 –> 00:32:42,100
\nabout his son.
\nAny news about my little boy, <\/p>\n

521
\n00:32:42,600 –> 00:32:44,600
\nand if he’s little boy, has
\nanything to do with Allenby. <\/p>\n

522
\n00:32:44,600 –> 00:32:46,600
\nHe was six foot two with about
\nchest. <\/p>\n

523
\n00:32:48,300 –> 00:32:50,300
\nBut this is what he’s concerned
\nwas. <\/p>\n

524
\n00:32:51,800 –> 00:32:55,500
\nNow the situation for Britain at
\nthat time was grim and the Prime<\/p>\n

525
\n00:32:55,500 –> 00:32:59,400
\nMinister later wrote in his
\nMemoirs, this is David Lloyd <\/p>\n

526
\n00:32:59,400 –> 00:33:02,900
\nGeorge.
\nHe says these words Before <\/p>\n

527
\n00:33:02,900 –> 00:33:06,200
\nAllenby left for Egypt, I had an
\ninterview with him and impressed<\/p>\n

528
\n00:33:06,200 –> 00:33:09,600
\non him that we wanted a
\ndetermine attack and push <\/p>\n

529
\n00:33:09,600 –> 00:33:13,200
\nagainst the Turks with the
\nobject of driving them out of <\/p>\n

530
\n00:33:13,200 –> 00:33:17,800
\nPalestine.
\nI said the cabinet expected <\/p>\n

531
\n00:33:17,800 –> 00:33:20,100
\nJerusalem before Christmas.
\nNow I know. <\/p>\n

532
\n00:33:20,200 –> 00:33:22,600
\nBut the students going to talk
\nabout the drying up of the <\/p>\n

533
\n00:33:22,600 –> 00:33:26,200
\nEuphrates from Revelation 16 so
\nwe won’t talk about that but <\/p>\n

534
\n00:33:26,200 –> 00:33:30,100
\nthis is a historical moment in
\ntime where the drying up of the <\/p>\n

535
\n00:33:30,100 –> 00:33:33,000
\nEuphrates was taking place.
\nThe Intention of the British <\/p>\n

536
\n00:33:33,000 –> 00:33:35,700
\nArmy’s to evict the Turks out of
\nJerusalem. <\/p>\n

537
\n00:33:38,100 –> 00:33:41,300
\nAnd Allenby was told as he was
\ntaken from the Western Front and<\/p>\n

538
\n00:33:41,300 –> 00:33:46,700
\nplaced in the Middle East.
\nWe need Jerusalem by Christmas <\/p>\n

539
\n00:33:47,600 –> 00:33:53,300
\nDecember 1917.
\nNow, why why was it that the <\/p>\n

540
\n00:33:53,300 –> 00:33:55,500
\nBritish government?
\nI remember the religious <\/p>\n

541
\n00:33:55,500 –> 00:33:57,900
\nbackground of this government.
\nWhy was it that the religious <\/p>\n

542
\n00:33:57,900 –> 00:34:01,700
\ngovernment wanted Jerusalem by
\nthe end of 1917? <\/p>\n

543
\n00:34:01,700 –> 00:34:03,800
\nWell, again, this is
\ninteresting. <\/p>\n

544
\n00:34:05,100 –> 00:34:06,900
\nBefore Alan be left for the
\nMiddle East. <\/p>\n

545
\n00:34:06,900 –> 00:34:09,500
\nHe met with Admiral Lord,
\nFisher. <\/p>\n

546
\n00:34:09,500 –> 00:34:10,900
\nThe first Sea.
\nLord in London. <\/p>\n

547
\n00:34:10,900 –> 00:34:13,199
\nSo he was the one who oversaw
\nthe flotillas. <\/p>\n

548
\n00:34:14,100 –> 00:34:18,600
\nAll the ships that went to war.
\nAnd this meeting was recorded by<\/p>\n

549
\n00:34:18,600 –> 00:34:23,699
\nLord, fishes secretary.
\nAnd this was what was said <\/p>\n

550
\n00:34:24,300 –> 00:34:28,100
\nbetween the Lord Admiral, the
\none who was responsible for the <\/p>\n

551
\n00:34:28,100 –> 00:34:31,400
\nsea in the Navy.
\nAnd this was the instruction <\/p>\n

552
\n00:34:31,400 –> 00:34:35,500
\nthat was given to Allenby before
\nhe left Britain to take up Post <\/p>\n

553
\n00:34:35,500 –> 00:34:37,000
\nin the Middle East.
\nThis is amazing. <\/p>\n

554
\n00:34:37,000 –> 00:34:39,800
\nI’ve got it on the screen here.
\nLet’s just read this together. <\/p>\n

555
\n00:34:40,300 –> 00:34:44,500
\nThis is a memoir.
\nAllenby was told that he would <\/p>\n

556
\n00:34:44,500 –> 00:34:49,199
\nbe God’s instrument for the
\nDeliverance of Jerusalem in <\/p>\n

557
\n00:34:49,199 –> 00:34:52,300
\nDecember 1917.
\nSo, this is the Lord Amaral. <\/p>\n

558
\n00:34:52,600 –> 00:34:56,800
\nThis is the, the lord of the,
\nthe sea and that the merchants <\/p>\n

559
\n00:34:56,800 –> 00:35:00,100
\nthere.
\nFor the Deliverance of <\/p>\n

560
\n00:35:00,100 –> 00:35:03,600
\nJerusalem, in December 1917,
\nstunned by Lord, fishes, words <\/p>\n

561
\n00:35:03,600 –> 00:35:06,800
\nAllenby, asked him to explain
\nthe deduction Amaral. <\/p>\n

562
\n00:35:06,800 –> 00:35:08,700
\nLord Fisher.
\nFirst Sea Lord, said these <\/p>\n

563
\n00:35:08,700 –> 00:35:12,100
\nwords, he spent several hours in
\ndiscussing. <\/p>\n

564
\n00:35:12,100 –> 00:35:15,000
\nThe Bible, with General Allen be
\nshowing him the prophecies that <\/p>\n

565
\n00:35:15,000 –> 00:35:17,200
\nrelate to the rise of Great
\nBritain. <\/p>\n

566
\n00:35:17,700 –> 00:35:20,500
\nAnd lastly, the prophecies
\nrelating to the Deliverance of <\/p>\n

567
\n00:35:20,500 –> 00:35:25,800
\nJerusalem in December 1917.
\nArmed and strengthened by his <\/p>\n

568
\n00:35:25,800 –> 00:35:29,400
\nknowledge, General Allenby,
\nsailed for the Middle East. <\/p>\n

569
\n00:35:29,400 –> 00:35:34,100
\nDid you know that So, before
\nAllenby went into Jerusalem, at <\/p>\n

570
\n00:35:34,100 –> 00:35:35,900
\nthe end of the year, on
\nDecember, the 11th will look at <\/p>\n

571
\n00:35:35,900 –> 00:35:40,100
\nthat in a moment, he was told
\nthat he was fulfilling Bible <\/p>\n

572
\n00:35:40,100 –> 00:35:45,600
\nprophecy in that, amazing.
\nBut Allenby went and soon as he <\/p>\n

573
\n00:35:45,600 –> 00:35:49,100
\narrived in the Middle East, he
\nreceived crushing news, <\/p>\n

574
\n00:35:49,700 –> 00:35:52,800
\ntragically.
\nHe was told that his son had <\/p>\n

575
\n00:35:52,800 –> 00:35:56,700
\ndied.
\nHis son was only 20 years of <\/p>\n

576
\n00:35:56,700 –> 00:35:59,700
\nage.
\nA piece of shrapnel had gone and<\/p>\n

577
\n00:35:59,700 –> 00:36:01,900
\npierced his helmet and he died
\nimmediately. <\/p>\n

578
\n00:36:03,000 –> 00:36:07,200
\nAnd this is the only record
\nwhere soldiers record Allenby <\/p>\n

579
\n00:36:07,200 –> 00:36:12,500
\nbeing reduced to public tears.
\nBut such was the measure of the <\/p>\n

580
\n00:36:12,500 –> 00:36:15,500
\nman, he would continue in his
\nwork. <\/p>\n

581
\n00:36:16,300 –> 00:36:21,000
\nAnd he asked the Prime Minister
\nDavid Lloyd George, whether his <\/p>\n

582
\n00:36:21,000 –> 00:36:26,500
\nwife who join him and his wife
\ncame and they continue the work <\/p>\n

583
\n00:36:26,500 –> 00:36:29,300
\ntogether.
\nAnd by December, they were in <\/p>\n

584
\n00:36:29,300 –> 00:36:30,600
\nJerusalem.
\nIsn’t that amazing? <\/p>\n

585
\n00:36:31,000 –> 00:36:33,600
\nAbsolutely tremendous.
\nHow God has worked with these <\/p>\n

586
\n00:36:33,600 –> 00:36:38,200
\nmen and women here?
\nWell, after a number of great <\/p>\n

587
\n00:36:38,200 –> 00:36:40,900
\nvictories, including the Battle
\nof Beersheba. <\/p>\n

588
\n00:36:41,100 –> 00:36:43,900
\nMuslim was next.
\nAnd so then we arrived to <\/p>\n

589
\n00:36:43,900 –> 00:36:46,700
\nDecember the 8th 1917.
\nJust three days before. <\/p>\n

590
\n00:36:46,700 –> 00:36:49,100
\nAllenby is going to go into
\nJerusalem and this is the first <\/p>\n

591
\n00:36:49,100 –> 00:36:51,300
\nday of the Jewish feast of
\nHanukkah. <\/p>\n

592
\n00:36:54,700 –> 00:36:58,300
\nBut Allenby didn’t want to fire
\non the Turkish troops in <\/p>\n

593
\n00:36:58,300 –> 00:37:02,200
\nJerusalem because he had so much
\nrespect for the city and the <\/p>\n

594
\n00:37:02,200 –> 00:37:05,400
\nholy sites.
\nAnd so then he contacts the <\/p>\n

595
\n00:37:05,400 –> 00:37:10,000
\nPrime Minister for advice.
\nBut Lloyd, George said that the <\/p>\n

596
\n00:37:10,000 –> 00:37:14,200
\nwar cabinet was leaving to him
\nand he’s better judgments. <\/p>\n

597
\n00:37:14,500 –> 00:37:16,300
\nSo that’s what wasn’t going to
\nbe helpful. <\/p>\n

598
\n00:37:16,300 –> 00:37:18,600
\nWas it?
\nSo not satisfied with that <\/p>\n

599
\n00:37:18,900 –> 00:37:21,300
\nAllenby, then contacted the
\nking. <\/p>\n

600
\n00:37:22,300 –> 00:37:26,000
\nAnd ask the king what he should
\ndo with the Turks in Jerusalem. <\/p>\n

601
\n00:37:26,000 –> 00:37:29,800
\nYou know what, the king said you
\nneed to pray about it Allenby. <\/p>\n

602
\n00:37:31,500 –> 00:37:36,800
\nAnd so, he did.
\nAnd so this is what happened. <\/p>\n

603
\n00:37:38,200 –> 00:37:42,700
\nAllenby didn’t want a fire to be
\nshot. <\/p>\n

604
\n00:37:43,300 –> 00:37:47,700
\nHe wanted the Turks to Simply
\nsurrender so he commanded the <\/p>\n

605
\n00:37:47,700 –> 00:37:52,100
\nRoyal flying Corps to drop
\nleaflets all across Jerusalem. <\/p>\n

606
\n00:37:52,100 –> 00:37:56,400
\nInforming the Turks that they
\nneeded to surrender and this is <\/p>\n

607
\n00:37:56,400 –> 00:37:59,700
\nexactly what happened.
\nThe Turks just retreated, the <\/p>\n

608
\n00:37:59,700 –> 00:38:04,200
\ncity was handed over to Allen be
\nwithout a shot being fired. <\/p>\n

609
\n00:38:06,600 –> 00:38:11,000
\nAnd so as you can imagine, then
\nallenbys entrance into Jerusalem<\/p>\n

610
\n00:38:11,000 –> 00:38:14,500
\non December.
\nThe 11th 1917 was carefully <\/p>\n

611
\n00:38:14,500 –> 00:38:18,800
\nchoreographed and and the war
\neffort at War office in in <\/p>\n

612
\n00:38:18,800 –> 00:38:20,200
\nBritain gave careful
\ninstructions. <\/p>\n

613
\n00:38:20,200 –> 00:38:23,800
\nLook at this, this is the
\ntelegram but Alan be received <\/p>\n

614
\n00:38:23,800 –> 00:38:26,900
\nbefore he went into Jerusalem
\nfrom the British government and <\/p>\n

615
\n00:38:26,900 –> 00:38:32,800
\nit says these words In the event
\nof Jerusalem being occupied, it <\/p>\n

616
\n00:38:32,800 –> 00:38:35,900
\nwould be of considerable
\npolitical import Allenby. <\/p>\n

617
\n00:38:35,900 –> 00:38:40,200
\nIf you unofficially entering the
\ncity Dismount at The City Gate <\/p>\n

618
\n00:38:40,200 –> 00:38:44,400
\nand enter on foot, the German
\nEmperor Road in, and the saying <\/p>\n

619
\n00:38:44,400 –> 00:38:50,400
\nwent round are better man than
\nhe warn’t advantage of contrast.<\/p>\n

620
\n00:38:50,400 –> 00:38:55,700
\nIn conduct will be obvious, so
\nthen Allen be compliant. <\/p>\n

621
\n00:38:55,700 –> 00:38:59,900
\nHe dismounted his horse and he
\nentered into the After Gates, <\/p>\n

622
\n00:39:00,000 –> 00:39:06,100
\nand he was followed in by this
\nman, but peppy, but Pepin walk <\/p>\n

623
\n00:39:06,100 –> 00:39:11,500
\nthrough the jaffa cakes with
\nAllenby and he would later <\/p>\n

624
\n00:39:11,500 –> 00:39:16,100
\nbecome brother, but Pepin of
\ntaught and Ecclesia in England, <\/p>\n

625
\n00:39:16,500 –> 00:39:18,900
\nand the recording.
\nBrother of that Ecclesia for <\/p>\n

626
\n00:39:18,900 –> 00:39:24,700
\nmany years, and I’ve spoken to
\nhis family and he walked through<\/p>\n

627
\n00:39:24,700 –> 00:39:30,300
\nthe Jaffa gates with Alan B and
\nhe could see The Turks just <\/p>\n

628
\n00:39:30,300 –> 00:39:33,500
\nremoved and he could see that
\nthis had nothing to do. <\/p>\n

629
\n00:39:33,500 –> 00:39:35,900
\nThat was his belief, he had
\nnothing to do with the British <\/p>\n

630
\n00:39:35,900 –> 00:39:40,900
\ngovernment’s, all the propaganda
\nor the leaflets that something <\/p>\n

631
\n00:39:40,900 –> 00:39:44,000
\ngreater a greater power was at
\nforced that day. <\/p>\n

632
\n00:39:44,000 –> 00:39:48,100
\nAnd so then Pepin resolved that
\nhe would go home. <\/p>\n

633
\n00:39:48,100 –> 00:39:51,300
\nHe’d read his Bible and find the
\ntruth and he found the <\/p>\n

634
\n00:39:51,300 –> 00:39:54,700
\nchristadelphians.
\nIt wasn’t a leaflet that found <\/p>\n

635
\n00:39:54,700 –> 00:39:57,400
\nhim.
\nHe found the christadelphians <\/p>\n

636
\n00:39:57,800 –> 00:40:00,700
\nand he married Elsie.
\nAnd they had two daughters and <\/p>\n

637
\n00:40:00,707 –> 00:40:05,000
\nthis is a rare sunny day in
\nEngland and they’re enjoying a <\/p>\n

638
\n00:40:05,000 –> 00:40:07,100
\nlovely afternoon together.
\nWhat a lovely story. <\/p>\n

639
\n00:40:07,100 –> 00:40:10,600
\nIn fact, I was actually giving a
\ntalk on the 6th on the drying up<\/p>\n

640
\n00:40:10,600 –> 00:40:13,400
\nof the Euphrates for a
\nfraternity and Ecclesia, and <\/p>\n

641
\n00:40:13,400 –> 00:40:16,800
\nthey told me that the recording
\nbrother that closure was brother<\/p>\n

642
\n00:40:16,800 –> 00:40:18,800
\nburping.
\nYou imagine how delighted I was <\/p>\n

643
\n00:40:19,200 –> 00:40:21,400
\nthe find out about that.
\nI didn’t know about this story <\/p>\n

644
\n00:40:21,400 –> 00:40:23,900
\nuntil his family told me, and I
\ntold the christadelphians office<\/p>\n

645
\n00:40:23,900 –> 00:40:26,800
\nand we publish a little article
\nabout an amazing. <\/p>\n

646
\n00:40:27,600 –> 00:40:30,500
\nIsn’t that amazing?
\nHow Oh, God were. <\/p>\n

647
\n00:40:32,500 –> 00:40:37,100
\nWell, let’s just see how Allenby
\nmarched into Jerusalem. <\/p>\n

648
\n00:40:37,100 –> 00:40:39,800
\nLet her show you some old
\nfootage here. <\/p>\n

649
\n00:40:49,900 –> 00:40:54,200
\nGeneral Edmund, Allenby swept
\naside, the, Turkish forces, and <\/p>\n

650
\n00:40:54,200 –> 00:41:00,100
\nconquered Palestine yet this was
\ndespite appearances. <\/p>\n

651
\n00:41:00,600 –> 00:41:03,600
\nNo simple, Triumph of an
\ninvading Army <\/p>\n

652
\n00:41:16,400 –> 00:41:19,900
\nSo it was that Allenby was
\nordered by London to enter the <\/p>\n

653
\n00:41:19,900 –> 00:41:23,200
\ncity on foot without flying any
\nflies. <\/p>\n

654
\n00:41:24,700 –> 00:41:28,800
\nHe appeared to onlookers more as
\na humble Pilgrim than conqueror <\/p>\n

655
\n00:41:29,900 –> 00:41:32,800
\nand remarkably.
\nThe local people were asked to <\/p>\n

656
\n00:41:32,800 –> 00:41:37,200
\nbelieve that allenbys arrival in
\nthe city had been prophesied. <\/p>\n

657
\n00:41:44,100 –> 00:41:46,900
\nthe British propagandists
\nrealized that almost <\/p>\n

658
\n00:41:46,900 –> 00:41:52,000
\nmiraculously allenbys name when
\nwritten in Arabic spelled <\/p>\n

659
\n00:41:52,100 –> 00:42:00,300
\nal-nabi, that is the profit Doc
\nwas how the British presented a <\/p>\n

660
\n00:42:00,300 –> 00:42:03,500
\nChristian General to the Muslim
\npopulation of the city. <\/p>\n

661
\n00:42:10,900 –> 00:42:14,400
\nAllenby was as prophesied their
\nsavior. <\/p>\n

662
\n00:42:19,900 –> 00:42:22,800
\nSo, in the christadelphians
\nmagazine, following the Balfour,<\/p>\n

663
\n00:42:22,800 –> 00:42:28,000
\nDeclaration brother, John Carter
\nincluded a letter written by LG <\/p>\n

664
\n00:42:28,000 –> 00:42:30,600
\nSergeant, to the London Daily
\nTelegraph. <\/p>\n

665
\n00:42:31,300 –> 00:42:32,600
\nSo, I’m just going to read this
\nletter. <\/p>\n

666
\n00:42:33,200 –> 00:42:36,800
\nThat was written by the editor,
\nat the time to the London, Daily<\/p>\n

667
\n00:42:36,800 –> 00:42:40,000
\nTelegraph.
\nAfter the Balfour, Declaration <\/p>\n

668
\n00:42:40,000 –> 00:42:42,800
\nwas issued, and I’m sure you’ve
\nnever seen a letter quite like <\/p>\n

669
\n00:42:42,800 –> 00:42:47,300
\nthis before.
\nIt was in the year 606 BC that <\/p>\n

670
\n00:42:47,300 –> 00:42:51,000
\nNebuchadnezzar first came
\nagainst Judah and carried Daniel<\/p>\n

671
\n00:42:51,000 –> 00:42:53,500
\nand the Hebrew children among
\nothers captive. <\/p>\n

672
\n00:42:53,900 –> 00:42:57,000
\nAt this time, he was acting on
\nbehalf of his father and it was <\/p>\n

673
\n00:42:57,000 –> 00:43:01,300
\nnot until nearly two years later
\nin 604, BC that he himself has <\/p>\n

674
\n00:43:01,300 –> 00:43:06,400
\nceded the throne that year is
\nconsequently properly speaking, <\/p>\n

675
\n00:43:06,400 –> 00:43:09,300
\nthe first of Nebuchadnezzar.
\nAnd it was probably also the <\/p>\n

676
\n00:43:09,300 –> 00:43:13,100
\nyear in which he saw the vision
\nof the great image in connection<\/p>\n

677
\n00:43:13,100 –> 00:43:16,000
\nwith which it was said.
\nSaid to him, thou art this head <\/p>\n

678
\n00:43:16,000 –> 00:43:20,500
\nof gold this year has therefore
\nsome special claims to be <\/p>\n

679
\n00:43:20,500 –> 00:43:24,100
\nconsidered as a very principled,
\nstarting point of the times of <\/p>\n

680
\n00:43:24,100 –> 00:43:30,300
\nthe Gentiles measured from it.
\nThe period Runs Out In AD 1917 <\/p>\n

681
\n00:43:30,300 –> 00:43:32,500
\nis not amazing.
\nIt was an incredible letter and <\/p>\n

682
\n00:43:32,500 –> 00:43:36,400
\nit’s such a shame that the Daily
\nTelegraph chose not to publish. <\/p>\n

683
\n00:43:38,800 –> 00:43:42,200
\nWe want to consider now that the
\nLeague of Nations in 1922, <\/p>\n

684
\n00:43:42,200 –> 00:43:44,800
\nbecause you might not know this,
\nbecause I think the story of the<\/p>\n

685
\n00:43:44,800 –> 00:43:47,300
\nBalfour, Declaration tends to
\nconclude where we’ve just left <\/p>\n

686
\n00:43:47,300 –> 00:43:51,000
\noff, but we’ll just go forward.
\nNow, five years. <\/p>\n

687
\n00:43:52,700 –> 00:43:54,200
\nSo just five years.
\nAnd after the Balfour, <\/p>\n

688
\n00:43:54,200 –> 00:43:57,600
\nDeclaration everything, actually
\nin Britain, hung in the balance <\/p>\n

689
\n00:43:57,900 –> 00:44:00,700
\nbecause there was growing
\nInternational pressure for <\/p>\n

690
\n00:44:00,700 –> 00:44:02,800
\nBritain.
\nTo stand, aside from Israel, in <\/p>\n

691
\n00:44:02,800 –> 00:44:08,000
\nfact, on June the 21st, 1922
\njust five years after After the <\/p>\n

692
\n00:44:08,300 –> 00:44:12,300
\nDeclaration was issued, the
\nHouse of Lords, debated, <\/p>\n

693
\n00:44:12,300 –> 00:44:15,200
\nBritain, support of the Mandate
\nof Palestine. <\/p>\n

694
\n00:44:15,900 –> 00:44:21,300
\nNot the house of parliament, the
\nHouse of Lords The motion to <\/p>\n

695
\n00:44:21,300 –> 00:44:25,100
\nabandon the Balfour.
\nDeclaration was actually passed <\/p>\n

696
\n00:44:25,100 –> 00:44:27,000
\nin 1922, I don’t know if you
\nknow that. <\/p>\n

697
\n00:44:27,000 –> 00:44:33,800
\nDid you know that?
\nIt was passed by 62 29 votes. <\/p>\n

698
\n00:44:34,700 –> 00:44:37,700
\nSo after all that work, Britain
\nwas about to walk away from the <\/p>\n

699
\n00:44:37,700 –> 00:44:41,000
\nDeclaration and everything
\nlooked incredibly bleak. <\/p>\n

700
\n00:44:42,000 –> 00:44:47,900
\nAnd so it fell to one man.
\nWinston Churchill to answer this<\/p>\n

701
\n00:44:47,900 –> 00:44:53,000
\nMotion in the House of Commons.
\nAs the saying goes cometh. <\/p>\n

702
\n00:44:53,000 –> 00:44:56,800
\nThe hour cometh, the man, his
\nspeech was powerful. <\/p>\n

703
\n00:44:56,800 –> 00:44:59,700
\nIt was long, it was appealing to
\nhis countrymen, he said, words <\/p>\n

704
\n00:44:59,700 –> 00:45:03,300
\nsuch as a Jewish National home
\nin Palestine, should be <\/p>\n

705
\n00:45:03,300 –> 00:45:07,500
\ninternationally, guaranteed.
\nAnd then he goes on to say, and <\/p>\n

706
\n00:45:07,500 –> 00:45:11,600
\nformally recognized to rest upon
\nits ancient historic connection.<\/p>\n

707
\n00:45:11,700 –> 00:45:15,200
\nIt was a moving speech and it
\nrequired all of his abilities. <\/p>\n

708
\n00:45:15,500 –> 00:45:20,300
\nAnd at the end, the common
\nsupported, the Balfour, <\/p>\n

709
\n00:45:20,300 –> 00:45:28,100
\nDeclaration. 292 votes for, and
\n35 votes against. <\/p>\n

710
\n00:45:29,100 –> 00:45:33,100
\nIt was a persuasive speech.
\nIt’s swung the opinion of <\/p>\n

711
\n00:45:33,300 –> 00:45:36,600
\nparliament, but of course, God
\nwas behind it all. <\/p>\n

712
\n00:45:36,600 –> 00:45:38,800
\nAnd so, then we have the League
\nof Nations. <\/p>\n

713
\n00:45:38,800 –> 00:45:41,700
\nAnd so it was submitted to the
\nLeague of Nations on the 24th of<\/p>\n

714
\n00:45:41,700 –> 00:45:46,100
\nJuly. 1922 following this
\nextraordinary speech of Winston,<\/p>\n

715
\n00:45:46,100 –> 00:45:49,500
\nChurchill and the House of
\nCommons and it was approved. <\/p>\n

716
\n00:45:49,500 –> 00:45:51,900
\nIt was ratified the doubt that
\nthe bar, Dolphin. <\/p>\n

717
\n00:45:51,900 –> 00:45:54,900
\nThe Balfour, Declaration and
\nbecame official. <\/p>\n

718
\n00:45:54,900 –> 00:46:01,400
\nIt became international law, so
\nthat we should ask ourselves the<\/p>\n

719
\n00:46:01,400 –> 00:46:03,900
\nquestion.
\nIf we look back with the benefit<\/p>\n

720
\n00:46:03,900 –> 00:46:07,400
\nof hindsight, what is the
\nhistorical significance and <\/p>\n

721
\n00:46:07,400 –> 00:46:09,100
\nimportance of the Balfour
\nDeclaration? <\/p>\n

722
\n00:46:09,700 –> 00:46:11,600
\nWhat difference did it really
\nmake? <\/p>\n

723
\n00:46:11,600 –> 00:46:14,900
\nIf anything now I’m going to
\ncall upon Lord Rothschild. <\/p>\n

724
\n00:46:14,900 –> 00:46:17,500
\nAgain, he’s very busy tonight,
\nI’m going to call upon him <\/p>\n

725
\n00:46:17,500 –> 00:46:20,700
\nagain.
\nSo, answer this question, the <\/p>\n

726
\n00:46:20,700 –> 00:46:22,700
\nsignificance.
\nSequence of the Balfour, <\/p>\n

727
\n00:46:22,700 –> 00:46:26,900
\nDeclaration.
\nYou may know a number of these <\/p>\n

728
\n00:46:26,900 –> 00:46:32,400
\npanelists, the importance of the
\nDeclaration to the state of <\/p>\n

729
\n00:46:32,400 –> 00:46:36,400
\nIsrael.
\nSurely bargain start off by <\/p>\n

730
\n00:46:36,400 –> 00:46:41,400
\nsaying it was the foundation
\nstone of the state and you said <\/p>\n

731
\n00:46:41,400 –> 00:46:45,400
\nin your excellent book, The Long
\nShadow, the Great War, the 20th <\/p>\n

732
\n00:46:45,400 –> 00:46:50,100
\ncentury that the Declaration
\nitself is two-sided. <\/p>\n

733
\n00:46:50,800 –> 00:46:55,900
\nIt was a moral commitment, but
\nnow big you as well to Jews and <\/p>\n

734
\n00:46:55,900 –> 00:47:01,500
\nArabs, it had no legal stabbed
\nduring the Public Act of <\/p>\n

735
\n00:47:01,500 –> 00:47:05,300
\nrecognition designers who was to
\nbe formalized after church or <\/p>\n

736
\n00:47:05,300 –> 00:47:09,800
\npresented to Parliament the
\nchurch or white paper in 1922 <\/p>\n

737
\n00:47:10,400 –> 00:47:14,500
\nwhich is emphatic.
\nIn its support of Zionism that <\/p>\n

738
\n00:47:14,500 –> 00:47:17,900
\npaper was submitted to the
\nLeague of Nations in Geneva and <\/p>\n

739
\n00:47:17,900 –> 00:47:21,200
\napproved.
\nAnd as vitamin Go to YouTube <\/p>\n

740
\n00:47:21,200 –> 00:47:27,000
\nrepresented, the Magna carter of
\nLiberation, a decisive event in <\/p>\n

741
\n00:47:27,000 –> 00:47:32,700
\nJewish history, and it gave
\nZionism the legal right to move <\/p>\n

742
\n00:47:32,700 –> 00:47:36,300
\ntowards statehood.
\nAnd that in turn led to the <\/p>\n

743
\n00:47:36,300 –> 00:47:40,500
\nestablishment of the state of
\nIsrael, following United Nations<\/p>\n

744
\n00:47:40,500 –> 00:47:45,400
\nresolution of 1947.
\nSo after 2,000 years of <\/p>\n

745
\n00:47:45,400 –> 00:47:49,400
\npersecution, the Jews were at
\nlast to return home. <\/p>\n

746
\n00:47:50,500 –> 00:47:56,500
\nAnd as the parrot touching the
\nRobert Frost wrote in the death <\/p>\n

747
\n00:47:56,500 –> 00:48:01,100
\nof the heart man.
\nHome is the place where when you<\/p>\n

748
\n00:48:01,100 –> 00:48:06,700
\ngo there they have to take you
\nin and every Jew in the world <\/p>\n

749
\n00:48:07,200 –> 00:48:10,000
\nhas the right of return to live
\nin Israel. <\/p>\n

750
\n00:48:13,000 –> 00:48:16,500
\nIt’s fascinating, isn’t it that
\nthe opening Words, Their of Lord<\/p>\n

751
\n00:48:16,500 –> 00:48:19,300
\nRothschild with these words?
\nThe Declaration was the <\/p>\n

752
\n00:48:19,300 –> 00:48:24,400
\nfoundation, stone of the state
\nof Israel in the year 1917. <\/p>\n

753
\n00:48:24,400 –> 00:48:26,300
\nSo, he couldn’t be any clearer.
\nCould he? <\/p>\n

754
\n00:48:28,700 –> 00:48:34,300
\nIt’s moving to think that at the
\nend of balfour’s life on his <\/p>\n

755
\n00:48:34,300 –> 00:48:40,100
\ndeathbed, Vice woman was the
\nonly friend admitted to see him.<\/p>\n

756
\n00:48:42,400 –> 00:48:44,700
\nMrs. Dugdale Bow Falls.
\nNice. <\/p>\n

757
\n00:48:44,700 –> 00:48:50,400
\nAnd biographer wrote these words
\nwhen vitamin goes in to see <\/p>\n

758
\n00:48:50,600 –> 00:48:54,500
\nBalfour, one last time, let me
\nread these words to you again <\/p>\n

759
\n00:48:54,500 –> 00:48:55,900
\nthat they’re very poignant
\nwords. <\/p>\n

760
\n00:48:56,800 –> 00:49:00,400
\nShe says no words were said
\nbetween them. <\/p>\n

761
\n00:49:01,100 –> 00:49:03,100
\nFor Balfour was very weak and
\ndr. <\/p>\n

762
\n00:49:03,100 –> 00:49:07,700
\nVaisman much overcome Balfour
\nmoved his head and touch the <\/p>\n

763
\n00:49:07,700 –> 00:49:12,100
\nbowed head of his visitor, in
\nthe Silence of the room, the <\/p>\n

764
\n00:49:12,100 –> 00:49:15,100
\nbond between them could be
\nfeld’s. <\/p>\n

765
\n00:49:16,200 –> 00:49:19,800
\nTwo.
\nGreat men raised in a particular<\/p>\n

766
\n00:49:19,800 –> 00:49:27,600
\ntime for a very special purpose.
\nWell, way back in 18-49 brother,<\/p>\n

767
\n00:49:27,600 –> 00:49:31,600
\nJohn Thomas wrote elpis Israel
\nis quite staggering that he <\/p>\n

768
\n00:49:31,600 –> 00:49:33,900
\nwrote these words which were
\ngoing to share in a moment <\/p>\n

769
\n00:49:33,900 –> 00:49:38,400
\nconcerning the course of
\nBritain. 70 years, before the <\/p>\n

770
\n00:49:38,400 –> 00:49:42,100
\nBalfour, Declaration was issued.
\nNow this man was not inspired. <\/p>\n

771
\n00:49:42,500 –> 00:49:46,000
\nBut because of his careful,
\nmeticulous, reading, and <\/p>\n

772
\n00:49:46,000 –> 00:49:48,700
\nunderstanding of God’s word,
\nthese are the conclusions. <\/p>\n

773
\n00:49:48,700 –> 00:49:54,400
\nHe came to, he says these words
\nin 18-49, I know not, whether <\/p>\n

774
\n00:49:54,400 –> 00:49:58,100
\nthe men who are present
\ncontrived, the foreign policy of<\/p>\n

775
\n00:49:58,100 –> 00:50:01,800
\nBritain entertain, the idea of
\nassuming the sovereignty of the <\/p>\n

776
\n00:50:01,800 –> 00:50:06,200
\nHoly Land which would take place
\nin 1917 that the Finger of God <\/p>\n

777
\n00:50:06,200 –> 00:50:09,400
\nhas indicated a course to be
\npursued by Britain, which cannot<\/p>\n

778
\n00:50:09,400 –> 00:50:11,900
\nbe evaded.
\nAnd which are counselors will <\/p>\n

779
\n00:50:11,900 –> 00:50:16,800
\nnot only We be willing but eager
\nto adopt when the crisis comes <\/p>\n

780
\n00:50:16,800 –> 00:50:19,600
\nupon them and that’s exactly
\nwhat happened as we’ve seen <\/p>\n

781
\n00:50:19,600 –> 00:50:22,900
\ntonight.
\nSo, what about then? <\/p>\n

782
\n00:50:22,900 –> 00:50:25,600
\nThe Centenary celebrations in
\nour final section. <\/p>\n

783
\n00:50:25,600 –> 00:50:29,300
\nAs we think back in December of
\nlast year, what was happening in<\/p>\n

784
\n00:50:29,300 –> 00:50:30,800
\nIsrael?
\nWhat was happening in Britain? <\/p>\n

785
\n00:50:32,700 –> 00:50:35,900
\nWell on the day of the
\nanniversary on December the 11th<\/p>\n

786
\n00:50:35,900 –> 00:50:40,400
\n2017.
\nThere was a special anniversary <\/p>\n

787
\n00:50:40,400 –> 00:50:45,500
\nand Benjamin Netanyahu flew into
\nto Britain flew into London. <\/p>\n

788
\n00:50:45,500 –> 00:50:50,600
\nThe Israel prime minister to be
\nwith Mrs, May and you can see <\/p>\n

789
\n00:50:50,600 –> 00:50:54,100
\nthey’re viewing the Balfour,
\nDeclaration and Lord Jacob. <\/p>\n

790
\n00:50:54,100 –> 00:50:58,200
\nThere is on the right hand side
\nand that evening mrs. <\/p>\n

791
\n00:50:58,200 –> 00:51:02,500
\nMay hosted a dinner at Lancaster
\nhouse and these were the words <\/p>\n

792
\n00:51:03,000 –> 00:51:07,200
\nThat she not only issue to the
\nIsraeli government but to the <\/p>\n

793
\n00:51:07,200 –> 00:51:10,000
\npress to the world and just
\nlisten to these works. <\/p>\n

794
\n00:51:13,200 –> 00:51:19,200
\nMine’s back to the time of 1917
\nin an era of computing Imperial <\/p>\n

795
\n00:51:19,200 –> 00:51:22,600
\npowers and with Britain.
\nStill embroiled in the midst of <\/p>\n

796
\n00:51:22,600 –> 00:51:27,500
\nthe first world war, the idea of
\nestablishing a Homeland for the <\/p>\n

797
\n00:51:27,500 –> 00:51:32,300
\nJewish people would have seemed
\na distant dream for many and <\/p>\n

798
\n00:51:32,300 –> 00:51:34,700
\nbeing fiercely opposed by
\nothers. <\/p>\n

799
\n00:51:35,900 –> 00:51:39,700
\nIt was at this very moment that
\nLord, Balfour, had the vision <\/p>\n

800
\n00:51:40,000 –> 00:51:43,800
\nand the leadership to make this
\nprofound statement about <\/p>\n

801
\n00:51:43,800 –> 00:51:48,800
\nrestoring A persecuted.
\nPeople to a safe and secure home<\/p>\n

802
\n00:51:48,800 –> 00:51:52,600
\nland and third.
\nThis was a letter that remains <\/p>\n

803
\n00:51:52,600 –> 00:51:57,100
\nvery sensitive for many people
\ntoday, but it was not ignorant <\/p>\n

804
\n00:51:57,200 –> 00:52:00,700
\nof those sensitivities.
\nIndeed, Balfour, wrote <\/p>\n

805
\n00:52:00,700 –> 00:52:05,000
\nexplicitly that nothing shall be
\ndone, which may Prejudice the <\/p>\n

806
\n00:52:05,000 –> 00:52:07,300
\ncivil.
\nAnd religious rights of existing<\/p>\n

807
\n00:52:07,500 –> 00:52:11,100
\nnon-jewish communities in
\nPalestine or the rights and <\/p>\n

808
\n00:52:11,100 –> 00:52:15,400
\npolitical status enjoyed by
\nJews, in any other country. <\/p>\n

809
\n00:52:16,600 –> 00:52:19,900
\nSo when some people suggest we
\nshould apologize for this <\/p>\n

810
\n00:52:19,900 –> 00:52:33,600
\nletter, I say absolutely not.
\nWe are proud of our pioneering <\/p>\n

811
\n00:52:33,600 –> 00:52:36,300
\nrole in the creation of the
\nstate of Israel. <\/p>\n

812
\n00:52:37,000 –> 00:52:41,000
\nWe are proud to stand here today
\ntogether with prime minister <\/p>\n

813
\n00:52:41,000 –> 00:52:46,100
\nNetanyahu and declare, our
\nsupport for Israel and weep. <\/p>\n

814
\n00:52:50,700 –> 00:52:52,500
\nAnd we are proud of the
\nrelationship. <\/p>\n

815
\n00:52:52,500 –> 00:52:56,600
\nWe have built with Israel and as
\nwe mark 100 years since by <\/p>\n

816
\n00:52:56,600 –> 00:53:00,500
\nAlpha, we look forward to taking
\nthat relationship even further. <\/p>\n

817
\n00:53:01,400 –> 00:53:06,100
\nSo you can see there that she
\nwas emphatic in her support and <\/p>\n

818
\n00:53:06,100 –> 00:53:12,700
\nBritain support of Israel.
\nJust last December So then in <\/p>\n

819
\n00:53:12,700 –> 00:53:17,700
\nconclusion, we have seen that
\nthe Balfour Declaration was <\/p>\n

820
\n00:53:17,700 –> 00:53:21,700
\nindeed the foundation stone of
\nthe, the state of Israel, just <\/p>\n

821
\n00:53:21,700 –> 00:53:24,300
\nthe words of Lord, Jacob
\nRothschild himself. <\/p>\n

822
\n00:53:25,100 –> 00:53:28,000
\nAnd it’s interesting as we
\nreflect upon the last 12 months,<\/p>\n

823
\n00:53:28,000 –> 00:53:32,500
\nthat it has been a year of
\nanniversaries, hasn’t we thought<\/p>\n

824
\n00:53:32,500 –> 00:53:35,400
\nabout December of last year, 100
\nYears of the Balfour, <\/p>\n

825
\n00:53:35,400 –> 00:53:41,600
\nDeclaration, you can see on the
\nscreen. 70 years of the state of<\/p>\n

826
\n00:53:41,600 –> 00:53:43,500
\nIsrael.
\nAnd I was there just two months <\/p>\n

827
\n00:53:43,500 –> 00:53:46,900
\nago and it’s extraordinary.
\nDon’t know how recently anyone <\/p>\n

828
\n00:53:46,900 –> 00:53:52,300
\nwho’s been in Israel.
\nIsrael is covered as a land with<\/p>\n

829
\n00:53:52,300 –> 00:53:56,000
\ncranes.
\nCranes are everywhere. <\/p>\n

830
\n00:53:56,300 –> 00:54:02,500
\nRoads are being built and
\nconstructed there is now a <\/p>\n

831
\n00:54:02,500 –> 00:54:07,000
\nmonorail that connects Jerusalem
\nto Tel Aviv and I couldn’t <\/p>\n

832
\n00:54:07,000 –> 00:54:10,200
\nunderstand why why all this new
\ninfrastructure. <\/p>\n

833
\n00:54:10,200 –> 00:54:12,500
\nAnd so then I was going around
\nwith a rabbi and asked the <\/p>\n

834
\n00:54:12,508 –> 00:54:17,400
\nrabbi, why all this investment
\ndo you know what the answer was?<\/p>\n

835
\n00:54:18,300 –> 00:54:23,800
\nWe are building for messiah.
\nThere is a heightened <\/p>\n

836
\n00:54:23,800 –> 00:54:30,700
\nexpectation within the land.
\nAnd just last year, June of last<\/p>\n

837
\n00:54:30,700 –> 00:54:35,600
\nyear, we have the 50th year
\nanniversary of the Six Day War, <\/p>\n

838
\n00:54:35,600 –> 00:54:40,600
\nThree, huge anniversaries.
\nWe seen during the course of the<\/p>\n

839
\n00:54:40,607 –> 00:54:44,000
\nlast 12 months, I’m just going
\nto leave this with you and then <\/p>\n

840
\n00:54:44,000 –> 00:54:46,100
\njust a few Reflections and will
\nconclude. <\/p>\n

841
\n00:54:46,900 –> 00:54:50,300
\nWe have a looked at David Ben
\nGurion who proudly stood up and <\/p>\n

842
\n00:54:50,300 –> 00:54:53,100
\nannounced to the world that the
\nstate of Israel had been <\/p>\n

843
\n00:54:53,400 –> 00:54:55,800
\nestablished.
\nAnd I want to show you this rare<\/p>\n

844
\n00:54:55,800 –> 00:54:59,000
\nfootage.
\nAnd you get a sense of <\/p>\n

845
\n00:54:59,000 –> 00:55:03,800
\nexcitement within the land.
\nAnd you may even notice a <\/p>\n

846
\n00:55:03,800 –> 00:55:06,100
\npicture on oil painting behind
\nDavid. <\/p>\n

847
\n00:55:06,100 –> 00:55:09,900
\nBen-Gurion, and you’ll notice
\nthat, that is a painting of <\/p>\n

848
\n00:55:10,500 –> 00:55:15,000
\nTheodor herzl the very man who
\ncontacted David, Lloyd, George, <\/p>\n

849
\n00:55:16,300 –> 00:55:20,000
\nFor a plan for establishment of
\nGod’s people within the land. <\/p>\n

850
\n00:55:20,000 –> 00:55:30,400
\nLook at this rare footage here
\non May 14th, 1948 the British <\/p>\n

851
\n00:55:30,400 –> 00:55:33,600
\ngovernment, terminated its
\nPalestine mandate and on May <\/p>\n

852
\n00:55:33,600 –> 00:55:38,300
\n15th, 1948, David, Ben-Gurion
\ndeclared the independent state <\/p>\n

853
\n00:55:38,300 –> 00:56:02,400
\nof Israel.
\nI need to see this fight. <\/p>\n

854
\n00:56:18,400 –> 00:56:22,700
\nSo leave you with these tools as
\nwe reflect, then as a community <\/p>\n

855
\n00:56:22,700 –> 00:56:27,100
\non the 70th anniversary of the
\nstate of Israel, as we look back<\/p>\n

856
\n00:56:27,100 –> 00:56:30,400
\nand we think and we reflect upon
\nthe Centenary anniversary of the<\/p>\n

857
\n00:56:30,400 –> 00:56:36,800
\nBalfour Declaration, I encourage
\nyou not to forget Balfour, <\/p>\n

858
\n00:56:37,600 –> 00:56:41,900
\nLloyd, George VI’s, man,
\nChurchill Allenby, the <\/p>\n

859
\n00:56:41,900 –> 00:56:46,800
\nRothschild family.
\nAnd young Dorothy in the purpose<\/p>\n

860
\n00:56:46,800 –> 00:56:52,500
\nof God.
\nBut most importantly, in all <\/p>\n

861
\n00:56:52,500 –> 00:56:56,100
\nthese moments that we’ve shared
\nwith you this night, in all <\/p>\n

862
\n00:56:56,100 –> 00:57:00,400
\nthese incredibly providential
\nmoments, we see God. <\/p>\n

863
\n00:57:01,500 –> 00:57:03,800
\nWe see the god of Israel at
\nwork. <\/p>\n

864
\n00:57:05,300 –> 00:57:10,800
\nAnd he is bringing about the
\npeople within the land so that <\/p>\n

865
\n00:57:10,800 –> 00:57:14,000
\nhe could send his son soon to
\nestablish God’s Kingdom. <\/p>\n

866
\n00:57:15,500 –> 00:57:20,000
\nThe Lord God declares in the
\nscriptures, young people that <\/p>\n

867
\n00:57:20,000 –> 00:57:24,900
\nhis land and his people are a
\nliving witness, but he is the <\/p>\n

868
\n00:57:24,900 –> 00:57:29,200
\nLiving.
\nGod, We are living in truly <\/p>\n

869
\n00:57:29,200 –> 00:57:33,200
\nmomentous times.
\nWe pray for the Peace of <\/p>\n

870
\n00:57:33,207 –> 00:57:53,700
\nJerusalem.
\nThank you for listening to the <\/p>\n

871
\n00:57:53,700 –> 00:57:55,500
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\npodcast. <\/p>\n

872
\n00:57:56,200 –> 00:57:58,200
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890
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195: Stephen Whitehouse – 1917: The State of Israel<\/a><\/blockquote>