Gems-11

Selected Articles from Previous Brit-Am Now Postings

Gems-11. Selected Articles from Previous Brit-Am Now Postings

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Contents:
1. Ancient British Genealogical List: Names of Interest
2. Thomas Malloy: A New Map of the Promised Land?
3.#1. New Article:
Tribal Symbols on the Doors of the Sephardic Synagogue in Nachlaot, Jerusalem, Israel: Pictures
4. #2. Question About the "Mixed Multitude" and Israelites
5. The British Initial Involvement with the creation of Israel: Some Major Dates
6. New Article and Brit-Am You Tube Clip
The Purpose of Exile and Loss of Identity
7. New Article: Jewish Roots of the American Constitution
by Prof. Paul Eidelberg
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1. Ancient British Genealogical List: Names of Interest
Brit-Am Now no. 1422
http://britam.org/now2/1422Now.html
#2. Ancient British Genealogical List: Names of Interest
There are several different sources for Early British History e.g. Nennius, Geoffrey of Monmouth, etc.
These sources in turn were based on other sources that are now lost to us. The impression is that early Chroniclers preferred not to register differences of opinions, or different versions from different areas, but rather to coalesce the sources and synthesize them. In a genealogical list of early ancestors (assuming that it is not entirely fiction) we may therefore find what are in effect several different lists merged as one.

With this in mind, the following list is of interest:

This lists gives Japhet son of Noah as forefather of the British Celts.
Japhet followed by Javan then Iobaath, Baath, Ethroct, Izrau (or Esru), Ezra (or Sru or Zru).

[Elsewhere Brit-Am identifies Sru (also given as Isru) as Israel.]

Iara [who we identify as Yair descendant of both Judah and Mansseh],
Rea, Abir [in Hebrew the name means Noble, Brave, Strong], Oth, Ecthet, Aurtech,
Ethach, Mair [a Hebrew name cognate with Yair], Simeon [a Tribe of Israel], Boib, Thoi, Ougumum,
Fetebir, Alanus who was progenitor of the Alani people. His son was Isichion and from here the line is in dispute.
[ Isichion elsewhere is given as Isaacson i.e. Son of Isaac! ].

From the names above several possibility may already be discerned.
Additional evidence strengthens the probability that originally one of the lists upon which the above list is based traced the Ancient British directly back to Israel.
At all events the possibilities are definitely of interest.
http://www.sleepinbuff.com/4kinglist.pdf
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2. Thomas Malloy: A New Map of the Promised Land?
Brit-Am Now no. 1504
http://www.britam.org/now2/1504Now.html
#7. Thomas Malloy: A New Map of the Promised Land?
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3.#1. New Article:
Tribal Symbols on the Doors of the Sephardic Synagogue in Nachlaot, Jerusalem, Israel: Pictures
4. #2. Question About the "Mixed Multitude" and Israelites
Brit-Am Now no. 1523
http://britam.org/now2/1523Now.html
#1. New Article:
Tribal Symbols on the Doors of the Sephardic Synagogue in Nachlaot, Jerusalem, Israel: Pictures
#2. Question About the "Mixed Multitude" and Israelites
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5. The British Initial Involvement with the creation of Israel: Some Major Dates
Brit-Am Now no. 1532
http://britam.org/now2/1532Now.html
#1. The British Initial Involvement with the creation of Israel: Some Major Dates
Timeline
http://www.andrewcollins.com/page/articles/timeline.htm
Extracts:

1589 - Francis Kett is burned alive by the Church for [among other things] inferring that the Jews would one day return to the Promised Land, an opinion derived from reading the Bible.

1611 - Publication of the King James Bible.

1615 - Thomas Brightman (1562-1607), a theologian, seen as a founder of the idea of restoring Jews to the Holy Land, delivers the question in his posthumously published work : 'Shall they return to Jerusalem again'' to which he replies: 'There is nothing more certain: the prophets do everywhere confirm it and beat upon it.'

1621 - Sir Henry Finch's (1558-1625) book THE WORLD'S GREAT RESTORATION OR THE CALLING OF THE JEWS, AND OF ALL THE NATIONS AND KINGDOMS OF THE EARTH, TO THE FAITH OF CHRIST calls for the restoration of the Jews to the promised land.

1649 - Ebenezer and Joanna Cartwright, Puritans of English origin residing in Amsterdam, dispatch a petition to the British Government calling for the ban on Jews settling in England to be lifted. Also assistance to enable them to be repatriated to Palestine.

1771 - Joseph Eyre publishes a scholarly essay entitled OBSERVATIONS UPON PROPHECIES RELATING TO THE RESTORATION OF THE JEWS. He makes reference to biblical prophecies concerning the descendants of Abraham, whom he believes should occupy the land known as Palestine. With respect to the return of the Jews from the lands of their dispersion, Eyre quotes at length from the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel, which prophesies that the 'whole House of Israel' would experience a resurrection from the 'graves' of the Diaspora, and the tribes would come together 'bone to his bone . . . into the land of Israel.'

1795 - Charles Jerram, studying divinity at Cambridge, wins a prize for his work offering the opinion that there are grounds in the holy scriptures for the restoration of the Jews.

1838 - Lord Palmerston and Lord Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley-Cooper) influenced the Turkish Government to permit the establishment of a British Consulate in Jerusalem.

1840 - Lord Shaftesbury persuades Lord Palmerston, British Foreign Secretary, to step up plans to return Jews to Palestine.

4 November 1840 - Lord Shaftesbury takes out full-page advert in THE TIMES addressed to the Protestant monarchs of Europe, calling for the restoration of the Jews to the Promised Land. It inspires Israel Zangwell and Theodore Herzl, the accepted founder of Zionism, as imagining Palestine as 'A land of no people for a people with no land'.

25 September 1840 - Lord Shaftesbury presents a paper to Palmerston calling for the 'recall of the Jews to their ancient land'. He insists that the Jews consider it time for their restoration to Palestine and that those responsible should strive 'to establish the principles and practices of European civilisation.'

2 March 1841 - a group of 320 Christians address a memorandum to Lord Palmerston which states: 'Your Memorialists beg leave ... to remind your Lordship that the land of Palestine was bestowed by the Sovereign of the Universe upon the descendants of Abraham as a permanent and inalienable possession nearly 4,000 years ago, and that neither conquests nor treaties among men can possibly affect their Title to it. He has also decreed that they shall again return to their country and that the Gentiles shall be employed as the means of their restoration.'

1841 - George Gawler (1796-1869), an English Christian of good standing, senior commander at the Battle of Waterloo and later Governor of Australia, starts to encourage Jewish settlements in the land of Israel.

1844 - Rev. Samuel Bradshaw, in his TRACT FOR THE TIMES, BEING A PLEA FOR THE JEWS, calls for Parliament to allot 4 million pounds for the Restoration of Israel, with another 1 million to be collected by the Church.

1844 - Pastor T. Tully Crybace convenes a committee in London for the purpose of founding a 'British and Foreign Society for Promoting the Restoration of the Jewish Nation to Palestine.' He urges that England secure from Turkey Palestine 'from the Euphrates to the Nile, and from the Mediterranean to the Desert'.

1849 - Gawler accompanies Sir Moses Montefiori on a trip to Palestine, persuading him to invest in and initiate Jewish settlements in the country.

1865 - James Finn, the British Consul in Jerusalem and leading restorationist, establishes the Palestine Exploration Fund 'for the purpose of encouraging scientific exploration, archaeological research and the cartographic mapping of the Holy Land'. It offers 'advice and financial support to encourage Jews to emigrate to Palestine and form agricultural colonies'.

1866 - Lionel de Rothschild becomes an MP, and Jews receive official status in England.

1868 - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), most famous Jew of the nineteenth century, becomes Prime Minister. Queen Victoria makes him Lord Beaconsfield.

1880 - MP Laurence Oliphant (1829-1888) publishes a book entitled THE LAND OF GILEAD which expounds the Zionist cause, proposing settlement scheme of Jordan under British protection, while respecting Turkish sovereignty. He urges that the British Government support the repatriation of Jews to Palestine from Russia and Eastern Europe. Moreover, he proposes that the 'warlike' Bedouins be driven out, and the Palestinians be placed in reservations like the native Indians of America.

1884 - famous Kattowitz conference of Chibath Zion (Lovers of Zion) - beginning of international recognition of Zionism.

1891 - William E. Blackstone (1841-1935), an influential evangelist, financier and benefactor, lobbied the US President Benjamin Harrison and his Secretary of State, James G. Blaine, with a petition signed by 413 Jewish and Christian leaders including John & William Rockerfeller, calling for an international conference on the Jews and Palestine.

1894 - publication of THE RESTORATION OF THE JEWS TO PALESTINE by Anglican priest William Hechler (1845-1931). He formulated his own exact date for the re-establishment of the Jewish state. The book saw the need for 'restoring the Jews to Palestine according to Old Testament prophecies'.

1896 - Theodor Herzl's key book DER JUDENSTAAT (The Jewish State) published. March 1896 - Herzl meets Hechler.

1897 - First Zionist Conference. The founder of the Red Cross, Swiss philanthropist Henri Dunant, first gentile to be tagged 'Christian Zionist' by Herzl, and one of only a few gentiles invited to the congress. 1897 - Jewish Colonial Trust, first Zionist funded bank founded.

1900 - Fourth Zionist Congress in London.

1902 - Uganda offered to Herzl and Jews, and later discussed at Sixth Zionist Congress of 1903.

1905 - Uganda proposal refused at 7th Zionist Congress.

1906 - Chaim Weizmann introduced to Lord Balfour.

1907 - Eighth Zionist Congress at the Hague - creation of commonwealth. Call for charter. 1907 - 80,000 Jewish settlers now in Palestine, mostly in Jerusalem, Hebron, Tiberias, Safed, Jaffa and Haifa.

1914 - 100,000 Jewish settlers now in Palestine.

August 1914 - First World War begins. Weizmann put in touch with Lloyd George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer.

29 October 1914 - Turkey attacks Russian Black Sea bases and joins the Central Powers.

1915 - Chaim Weizmann offered job of synthesising acetone on behalf of the Naval office.

1916 - Lord Balfour becomes Foreign Secretary.

1916 - Sykes-Picot treaty. Mark Sykes works with French counterpart Georges Picot to carve up the Ottoman Empire between Britain, France and Russia after hostilities cease.

18 July 1917 - Lord Rothschild handed draft of Balfour Declaration by Balfour.

16 Oct 1917 - Col. Mandel House acting on behalf of American President Woodrow Wilson cables British Government pledging America's support for declaration. It is one of the most important factors in Britain's decision to issue the declaration.

2 November 1917 - Balfour Declaration signed.

2 December 1917 - celebration of the Balfour Declaration in the London Opera House. Lord Robert Cecil claims it marks not the birth of a nation, but ''the rebirth of a nation. I believe it will have far-flung influence on the history of the world and consequences than none can foresee on the future history of the human race'.

9 December 1917 - British troops occupy Jerusalem.

1920 - Weizmann becomes president of World Zionist Organisation.

1920 - San Remo agreement. Draft Mandate for Palestine conferred on Britain by the League of Nations. ...The Mandate obligates Britain, as Mandatory Power, (in the words of the preamble), to 'be responsible for putting into effect the Declaration originally made on 2nd November 1917 by the government of His Britannic Majesty and adopted by the said (Principal Allied) Powers in favour of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.'

1922 - Establishment of the Jewish National Homeland justified by Lord Balfour before the House of Lords. British now consider Palestine to be a serious liability, a country where Jews ride roughshod over 'the poor Arabs'.

September 1922 - the League of Nations and Great Britain decide that the provisions for setting up a Jewish National Home do not apply to the area east of the Jordan River, which constitutes three-fourths of the territory included in the Mandate. In 1923 it becomes the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

1929 - Lord Passfield announces that further immigration and land purchase in Palestine by Jews is to be stopped.

11 Aug 1929 - first meeting of the Jewish Agency.

23 August 1929 - Palestine riots. Seen as being used to curb Jewish immigration into Palestine.

21 October, 1930 - British Government publishes simultaneously the Hope-Simpson Report and the Passfield White Paper. Latter rendered untenable by Zionists in Palestine. Weizmann resigns as president of Jewish Agency, which appoints a Cabinet Committee on Palestine policy a few days before the Passfield White Paper is issued.

1936 - Further Arab riots. Peel report on partition solution.

July 1937 - Partition solution offered to Zionists in White Paper. It is based on the Peel Report of this year which concludes that 'the primary purpose of the Mandate, as expressed in its preamble and its articles, is to promote the establishment of the Jewish National Home.' It advises severe restrictions on Jewish purchases of land and severe curtailment of Jewish immigration. First steps towards nullification of Balfour Declaration.

1939 - Actual nullification came with further White Paper. Mandate pronounced unworkable. Weizmann blames Arab riots. The White Paper stalls further Jewish immigration and land purchase.

1945 - full extent of the Holocaust realised.

29 November 1947 - United Nations grants a Jewish state.

14 May 1948 - Israel declares independence. Termination of British Mandate for Palestine at midnight. Establishment of the Jewish state of Israel.

See also:
Franz Kobler,
"The Vision Was There.
A History of the British Movement for the Restoration of the Jews to Palestine", London, 1956
http://www.britam.org/vision/koblercontents.html
This work is very well written, well-researched, and informative.
The complete work is online on the Brit-Am site.
The original work was not printed in so many copies, has now been out of print for some time, and seems non-available for purchase.
Brit-Am is therefore possibly the only venue at present that makes this valuable work available to the public at large.

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6. New Article and Brit-Am You Tube Clip
The Purpose of Exile and Loss of Identity
Brit-Am Now no. 1533
http://britam.org/now2/1533Now.html
#3. New Article and Brit-Am You Tube Clip
The Purpose of Exile and Loss of Identity
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7. New Article: Jewish Roots of the American Constitution
by Prof. Paul Eidelberg
Brit-Am Now no. 1535
http://www.britam.org/now2/1535Now.html
#3. New Article: Jewish Roots of the American Constitution
by Prof. Paul Eidelberg
http://britam.org/eidelberg.html