FINAL WARNING: The Shining Star
FINAL WARNING: A HISTORY OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER
CHAPTER ELEVEN
THE SHINING STAR
THE WAR TORN HISTORY OF ISRAEL
In the near future, the country of Israel is going to take a more
prominent role in world affairs, so let’s take a brief look at their
historical development to see why tensions have continued to increase
in the Middle East.The northern kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Assyrians
around 722 BC, and the threat of captivity and slaughter forced them to
flee. Those people became known as the “ten lost tribes.” The other
two tribes, Benjamin and Judah (where the word “Jew” came from),
remained in the south. Through the years, Jerusalem and Palestine
became one of the most overrun areas in the world: Babylonian (587
BC-536 BC), Medo-Persian (536 BC-533 BC), Greek (331 BC-301 BC),
Egyptian (301 BC-198 BC), Syrian (198 BC-63 BC), and Roman (63 BC-
395 AD). Most of the Jews had fled from the land, and only a small
group remained in Jerusalem until 70 AD, when the Romans burned
the city. By 135, all of the Jews had been driven out. Still the area
continued to be the subject of contention as it was conquered by the
Byzantine (396-638), Mohammedan (639-1099), Crusader (1100-1291),
Moslem (1292), Egyptian-Mamaluke (1292-1917), and Turks (1917).In 1895, Theodor Herzl, an Austrian Jew, wrote a book called The
Jewish State (Der Judenstadt) that began the movement towards the
establishment of an independent Jewish state. In 1897, he arranged the
first World Zionist Congress in Basle, Switzerland. Now known as
‘Zionists’ (for Mount Zion in Palestine), a fund was started to raise
money to buy land, and a blue and white flag was chosen, the colors of
the tallith prayer shawl. Herzl traveled around the world, especially in
Europe, to lobby for his group. In 1903, a year before he died, England
offered the Jews the African country of Uganda, which they rejected,