Brit-Am Historical Reports
(23 October, 2018, 15Â Cheshvan, 5778)
Contents:
1. Average IQ by Country
2. The First Jews Killed by the Nazi Party
3. Amerigo Vespucci and the New World
4. The Date of the Deluge and Noah
5. How the Present-day Country of Jordan Came into being by an Anti-Zionist Source.
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1. Average IQ by Country
https://iq-research.info/en/average-iq-by-country
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2. The First Jews Killed by the Nazi Party
Who was the first Jew killed by the Nazi party? What were the circumstances? I've only found one article online about it, and there weren't many details.
https://www.quora.com/Who-was-the-first-Jew-killed-by-the-Nazi-party-What-were-the-circumstances-Ive-only-found-one-article-online-about-it-and-there-werent-many-details/answer/C.S. Friedman
C.S. Friedman, Science Fiction and Fantasy novelist
From the NYT:
The extermination of European Jews may have been formally outlined seven decades ago this month, but it began nearly nine years earlier, during Easter Week 1933, a few minutes after five o'clock in the afternoon on Wednesday, April 12, when four Jews, Arthur Kahn, Ernst Goldmann, Rudolf Benario and Erwin Kahn, were executed in precisely that order at a Nazi camp in the obscure Bavarian hamlet of Prittlbach.
These four killings framed the constituent parts of the genocidal process formalized at the Wannsee Conference: intentionality, chain-of-command, selection, execution. In the years to come, the process was refined, the numbers expanded monstrously, but the essential elements remained.
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3. Amerigo Vespucci and the New World
https://www.quora.com/If-Columbus-discovered-America-why-is-America-named-after-Amerigo/answer/Nich-Moyne
Vespucci got some promoters to help him as well. He had an advantage being from Florence. Being from Florence was way cooler at that time then being from Genoa which is where Columbus hailed from. Vespucci wrote down his thoughts and got some printers in Florence to edit and publish his letters. They called it Mundus Novus or 'New World'. Money Quote
I have written to you in rather ample detail about my return from those new regions . . . which can be called a new world, since our ancestors had no knowledge of them, and they are entirely new mater to those who hear about them. Indeed, it surpasses the opinion of our ancient authorities , since most of them assert that there is no continent south of the equator, but merely the sea which they called the Atlantic; furthermore, if any of them did affirm that a continent was there, they gave many arguments to deny that it was habitable land. But this last voyage of mine has demonstrated that this opinion of theirs is false and contradicts all truth, since I have discovered a continent in those southern regions that is inhabited by more numerous peoples and animals than in our Europe, or Asia or Africa.
The text than accompanied the map proclaimed :
Now truly these parts have been more widely explored, and another, fourth part has been discovered by Americus Vesputius (as will be heard in what follows) , and I do not see why anyone should rightly forbid naming it Amerige, land of Americus, as it were, after its discoverer, Americus , a man of acute genius, or America, inasmuch as both Europe and Asia have received their names from women.
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4. The Date of the Deluge and Noah
What is the general consensus among creationists for when Noah's flood occurred?
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-general-consensus-among-creationists-for-when-Noahs-flood-occurred/answer/Dan-Galilee
Dan Galilee, Have studied some archaeology
Updated Sep 9
Traditional Jewish chronology places the Flood in 2104 BCE. An ancient Greek source has the Flood in 2376 B.C.E., while the early Chinese put it near 2200 B.C.E., and in India a different historical age (the Silver Age) began in 2204 B.C.E. Similarly, the names of Assyrian rulers can be traced back to about 2200 B.C.E. See the links and footnotes. Link: Evidence of the Flood
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5. How the Present-day Country of Jordan Came into being by an Anti-Zionist Source.
Note:
The two answers below may be wrong but they have information worth keeping in mind.
In our opinion: The British should have given Jordan to the Jews. They did not do that. Technically however they may not have reneged on previous understandings or commitments IN THIS CASE.
(a) Why wasn't Jordan, which represents 80% of the area of Mandatory Palestine, called Palestine?
https://www.quora.com/Why-wasnt-Jordan-which-represents-80-of-the-area-of-Mandatory-Palestine-called-Palestine?/Answer/Michael-MillsÂ
Michael Mills,Â
Because it was not originally part of the territory sought by Britain for its Palestine mandate. In January 1919, when the British Government was considering where to set the boundaries of Palestine, it decided that the eastern boundary should be the Dead Sea and the Jordan River.
At that time, the territory east of the Jordan River was part of the Kingdom of Syria that had been proclaimed by the Arabs after the capture of Damascus late in 1918. Faisal ibn Husayn had been proclaimed ruler of that kingdom, and the British Government was content to leave him in place since he was a British ally and dependent on British support.
However, in July 1920 French forces invaded Syria and drove King Faisal out of Damascus, taking control of the whole territory. Britain was not able to dispute that takeover, since under the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1915 it had agreed that Syria should belong to the French Sphere of Influence. However, it was afraid that France might also lay claim to the area east of the Jordan, since that had formed part of the Kingdom of Syria, even though under the Sykes-Picot Agreement that area was to belong to the British Sphere of Influence.
Accordingly, the British persuaded the notables of the area east of the Jordan, who had previously given their allegiance to King Faisal, to ask for British protection against any attempt at a takeover by France. Having received the request for protection, the British then approached the league of Nations, which was still considering the whole question if what territories should be included in the mandates to be given to Britain and France, and asked that the territory east of the Jordan be attached to the Mandate for Palestine, subject to the proviso that the clauses relating to the establishment of a Jewish National Home would not apply to it.
Thus it was that in 1923, Transjordan was included in the Mandate for Palestine, even though it was treated as a separate country, not part of Palestine proper.
The claim made by pro-Israel activists, that the Jews were deprived on 80% of the territory promised to them, ie the territory east of the Jordan, is a typical Zionist falsehood.
(b) Why did the Britons in 1921 divide British Palestine into Palestine and Transjordan? Why didn't they choose names like: East Palestine and West Palestine? Or East Bank and West Bank (referring to the Jordan River)
https://www.quora.com/Why-did-the-Britons-in-1921-divide-British-Palestine-into-Palestine-and-Transjordan-Why-didnt-they-choose-names-like-East-Palestine-and-West-Palestine-Or-East-Bank-and-West-Bank-referring-to-the-Jordan-River?/Answer/Michael-Mills
Michael Mills, worked at Australian Public Service (1973-2001)
Answered 4h ago
There was no such place as 'British Palestine' that was divided, contrary to what supporters of Israel claim.
Rather, the territory east of the Jordan was added to the territory west of the Jordan for which Britain was granted a mandate by the League of Nations in 1920. Britain asked the League to attach territory east of the Jordan to the mandate it was to be given, but without the specific conditions applying to that mandate such as creating in it a national homeland for the Jews.
The essential reason why Britain asked for the territory east of the Jordan to be attached to its mandate for Palestine was to keep it out of the hands of France. The British claim to that territory was that it lay south of the dividing line between the French and British future spheres of influence agreed on in the Sykes-Picot-Sazonov agreement of 1916 for the partition of the Ottoman Empire between Britain, France and Russia.
After present-day Palestine and Syria were conquered by the British forces and their Arab Hashemite allies in 1918, the Arabs proclaimed a Kingdom of Syria to be ruled by their leader, Amir Faisal ibn Husayn, with its capital at Damascus. The territory claimed for that kingdom included all of Lebanon and Syria, claimed by France, and also the territory east of the Jordan River claimed by Britain, as far south as Maan. The territory south of Maan was claimed for a Kingdom of Hijaz, to be ruled by Faisal's father.
In July 1920, French forces invaded Syria, captured Damascus and expelled Faisal. At that point the British feared that France might lay claim to the territory east of the Jordan since it had been part of the proclaimed Kingdom of Syria. Accordingly, they contacted the leading elements of the population east of the Jordan, and persuaded them to request the attachment of their land to the British mandate for Palestine. They did so, and that attachment was enacted by the League of Nations.
In the meantime, Abdullah ibn Husayn, the brother of Faisal, had arrived in the territory east of the Jordan at the head of a Hashemite army, so the British appointed him Amir of that territory ,which they now called the Amirate of Transjordan to distinguish it from Palestine proper, which had always referred to the land west of the Jordan.
The bottom line is that there was no division of an existing territory along the Jordan River, but rather an attachment of territory east of the Jordan to territory west of the Jordan under a mandate granted to Britain.Â