FINAL WARNING: The Shining Star
because they knew that Palestine was their country. According to the
Bible (Gen. 15:18), Israel’s promised land stretches from the Nile River
in Egypt to the Euphrates in Syria, and includes the countries of Syria
and Lebanon.In 1904, Dr. Chaim Weizmann (who would become Israel’s first
President), was made Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry at
the University of Manchester in England. The Polish-born Jew had
studied Chemistry in Germany, and taught in Switzerland and England.
During World War I, Germany was producing 250,000 shells a day,
while England was only producing 2,500, due to a shortage of acetone
because of the lack of wood alcohol. Weizmann isolated an organism
capable of transforming the starch of cereals, most notably that of
maize, and later chestnuts, into acetone butyl alcohol. Because of
these advanced experimentations and the contribution of explosives
(TNT) to the allied cause, Weizmann was credited with saving the
British Army. The only thanks he wanted, was for Palestine to be
established as a national homeland for the Jews.The Sykes-Picat Agreement was a secret wartime agreement between
England and France to divide between them the lands of the Ottoman
Empire once World War 1 ended. Among the terms was the
establishment of an Arab state in ‘southern Palestine.’ However, the
Arabs became upset that Britain decided to instead engineer its own
rule over all Palestine through the League of Nations. England
essentially ruled Palestine as a colony until 1948.On November 2, 1917, the British Foreign Secretary Lord Arthur James
Balfour sent this declaration to Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild:“His Majesty’s Government views with favor the establishment in
Palestine of a national home land for the Jewish people, and will
use their best endeavors 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.”On December 9, 1917, Gen. Edmund Allenby marched into Jerusalem,
and when the Turks heard that he was on his way, they interpreted