Johnny Turk
Well bother me!....so God is behind it all, making it happen - in grandad’s
day!
Of course!...but it
looks like Man’s efforts so let’s start there: Theodor Herzl was an Austrian journalist who witnessed anti-semitism in the trial of French Army officer Alfred Dreyfus, falsely accused of treason, so he organised the First Zionist Congress in 1897, with the support of Anglican priest William Hechler, chaplain to the British Embassy in Austria.
Chaim Weizmann, who would later become Israel’s first president, was a Russian Jew and as a chemist, helped the British Government manufacture acetone for explosives during the First World War: rewarded with the issue of the Balfour Declaration in 1917:
“His Majesty’s government view with favour the
establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will
use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it
being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the
civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or
the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”
Mmm…it sounds good… satisfy the Jews and keep in
with the Arabs. You
could read between the lines: “We must keep control of the Suez Canal and not
offend the oil sheiks.” Meanwhile, what was happening in Palestine?
In order to liberate
Palestine from the Ottoman Empire, the 58,000 desperately thirsty British
soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula needed to first of all reach Abraham’s wells of
water in Beersheba, so on 31st October, 800 mounted infantry in the
Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade charged the Turkish machine-guns
in the last great cavalry charge in history – on the same day the Balfour
Declaration was announced!
Wow!...next stop Jerusalem! The order from General Murray for the Australian Light Horsemen to retreat from Gaza, so that the British troops would get the credit, cost thousands of lives and General Murray his command.
Next, British General Edmund H. Allenby was acutely aware of the significance of Jerusalem being sacred to Jews, Muslims and Christians...
…and don’t forget it’s at the junction of Africa,
Asia and Europe….
…so he firstly cabled
Prime Minister Lloyd George for instructions, then King George V, who replied:
“Pray about it.” The residents of Jerusalem were so shocked to see strange flying machines dropping leaflets to encourage surrender, signed by Allenby or as they thought: Alla-nebi or ‘Servant of Allah’, that the mayor of the city walked out to hand over the keys after hardly a shot was fired.
What a military non-event!...no blood and guts or
glory!
… that comes straight
out of the pages of Scripture:
“…so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the
hill thereof. As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem;
defending also he will defend it; and passing over He will preserve it. Turn ye
unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted…” Isaiah 31
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| Noon, Tuesday 11th December 1917 |
Unlike all other arrogant
conquerors of Jerusalem in the past, General Allenby simply walked into the
city on 11th December, 1917. Meanwhile a Jewish flag that was enraging Muslims after being hoisted by a young
Anzac soldier was hastily removed.
On the very same day of liberation? ... feuding
between Jews and Muslims over Jerusalem? Unbelievable!! I wonder if Britain kept their promise to ‘use their best endeavours’ for the Jews.
NEXT: Home at last!
Click on: http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/home-at-last.html
Acknowledgements:
Stringer C. ‘800 Horsemen’, Col Stringer Ministries Inc., Robina Q, 1998
World Book 2005
Photo credits:
Stringer C. ‘800 Horsemen’, Col Stringer Ministries Inc., Robina Q, 1998
World Book 2005
light horsemen/ian coate.com
surrender/carpatys.com
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