The four parts/appendices of The Restoration of Israel
Part I - Introduction and the Ancient History of Israel
Part II - Events of the Last Century
Part III - The Two Secret Documents and the Beginning History of Islam
Part IV - The Final Culminating Acts

Britain Prevents Israel From Forming

The UK retained control of Palestine through the League of Nations mandate, but hidden (well - somewhat) among the powerful English hierarchy there was a great degree of anti-semitism and everything possible was done to prevent the Jews from occupying the land.

The MS St. Louis in 1939

Hitler had offered to free the Jews, if any would take them. He said that he would educate and train them as tool makers and such, and provide transportation to any country that would receive them. True to his word, as a test, he loaded 937 Jewish refugees on the MS St. Louis in 1939 and sent them off to the world. They were refused landing in port after port, including in the United States and Canada. The Prime Minister of Canada, William Lyon Mackenzie King said, "None is Too Many." A few managed to escape, but many of those who were returned to Germany died in the prison camps.

In 1945, after the Second World War, the British reaffirmed the pre-war policy restricting Jewish immigration to Palestine. The Jews tried to arrange transportation themselves. Over half of 142 voyages were stopped by British patrols, and most intercepted immigrants were sent to internment camps. About 50,000 people ended up in camps, more than 1,600 drowned at sea, and only a few thousand actually entered Palestine.

The MS Exodus 1947

The Exodus 1947 was the largest Jewish refugee ship, carrying when it set sail for Israel 4,515 passengers including 1,600 men, 1,282 women, and 1,672 children and teenagers. The British captured the ship trying to enter Palestine and returned the passengers to concentration camps in Germany. It is an exciting story, but you will have to read the link for yourself. The Jews finally managed to establish themselves in Israel.

The Purpose of the Wars

Obviously, the Second World War was not fought for anything so noble as to free the Jews from Hitler's concentration camps. And to that I might add neither are the conflicts regarding Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, or Afghanistan (or numerous others that one could add to the list) about anything so noble as to bring about regime change so that the oppressed masses in those countries can have democracy (something which most, including Americans, know almost nothing about and may be incapable of handling in any case.) Popular myths about the causes and purposes of war, as those myths arise in every country and on both sides, creating great patriotic or religious fervor, are often totally untrue. It is shocking to many to learn that even the US Civil War was not about freeing the slaves.

Most certainly even now, and in the conflict to come, the purposes motivating the front line combatants to save their religion and culture, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are not the purposes of those profiting from the arms, making the decisions to sacrifice other's lives, and manipulating the political forces behind it all. Nevertheless, no matter their motives, the final Destiny remains God's.

1948 - Israel Created

The United Nations terminated the British Mandate on 15 May, 1948 and Ben-Gurion declared the State of Israel. The next day the neighboring Arab nations invaded newly formed Israel. Israel won that First Arab Israeli war and several others including the Six Day War in 1967 (The Third Arab-Israeli War) when it was attacked by Egypt, Jordan and Syria, and the October 6, 1973 Yom Kippur war when Syria and Egypt staged a surprise attack on Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. The surrounding Arab states expelled over a half million Jews, so Israel is where they ended up.

While the Arabs massively outnumbered the Jews, and it was the Arabs who attacked, still it was the Jews who won decisively and took control of the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, from Jordan, and the Golan Heights from Syria. While Israel has voluntarily given up large portions of this geography it still has not been defeated, although Hamas declares that they were the victors in one of the Gaza struggles.

So much history So little time to write about it

It is all an amazing time and era about which to write. Many astounding events attach themselves to the overall drama. There are thousands, tens of thousands of stories of heroes and sacrifice. An example for the reasoning in pointing to an individual when focusing upon a time in history- let us use the illustration of another event, that of Rosa Parks who in 1955, because she was tired, wouldn't give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest started a black revolution in America. One individual, one act, sets the forest aflame. Admittedly, the forest must be there and dry, awaiting that spark.

When we are standing close to an event we often do not see its importance or consequence. Listed here are four remarkable heroic individuals that appear key in the Middle East events that will effect the Destiny of Israel, Jerusalem and Damascus. The events have not yet played out, and we stand too close, so that most are still not aware of the significance of these individual's roles. These individuals are remarkable because they stood heroically against the conventions of their time.

Lawrence of Arabia

The first of these is Lawrence of Arabia. In 1910, after graduating from college the 22 year old Thomas Edward Lawrence, having demonstrated such talents at a much younger age, became a professional archaeologist in the Middle East. He is most noted for what we would call 'going native' in that he adopted the dress and culture of the desert Arabs. This so greatly enamored him to the populace there that when later he enlisted in the British military, he was able to serve as the liaison, often in the same garb, between them and General Allenby.

Lawrence is important to our story because in his liaison to the Arabs he was instrumental in the implementation of the 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement in favor of the British Interests and to the chagrin of the French. He was an exceptionally honorable and daring individual, and while it has been both ignored and hidden by history, because influential British powers were prejudiced against the Jews, he was also a champion for the establishment of Israel under the Balfour Declaration.

Lawrence of Arabia became a folk hero of the British People, immortalized in books and films of that name. Later he enlisted in the R.A.F. (Royal Air Force) under a different name (because he would not have been accepted under his famous name.) There are many heroic accounts about him, and his standards of honor. In 1935 during one of many motorcycle adventures he swerved to avoid hitting two small boys and was killed. The physician who performed the autopsy thought a helmet might have saved him - and created the first design of motorcycle helmets.

General Allenby

The pivot point between Lawrence of Arabia and his role in implenting the Sykes–Picot Agreement and Tudor Pole and Abdu'l-Baha with their sympathy for principles of the Balfour Declaration, was General Edmund Allenby. This point of pivot is important because it was also the pivot between the Sykes–Picot Agreement on the one side and the Balfour Declaration on the other. General Allenby became the initial implementor of the Sykes–Picot Agreement and the protector of the seed for the Balfour Declaration which would eventually supplant it.

General Allenby's most famous battle was that of Turkish Megiddo, in 1918, when he defeated the Eighth Army and forced the Fourth and Seventh armies of the Ottoman Empire to retreat towards Damascus, sealing the doom of the centuries old Ottoman Empire which had controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia, the Caucasus, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa. The empire was dissolved and lead to the emergence of the new state of Turkey which is now on the front line of much of the conflict between Iraq, Syria, and numerous independent clans. Considerable note was taken of the novel way in General Allenby won The Battle of Meggiddo (from which we get the word Armageddon).

General Allenby also conquered Palestine, Beersheba, Jaffa, Jordon, and Jerusalem. In the latter case he walked humbly into the city, rather than riding as a conqueror, and this so greatly impressed the Arab occupants that he was greatly honored throughout the region as they took note of his name which they heard as the Arabic phrase Allah Nebi, which means God's Prophet. There is much more to the story.

Tudor Pole

As Lawrence of Arabia, was General Allenby's liason to the desert tribes that became Syria and Turkey under the 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement, so was Major Tudor Pole his liason to the area of Palestine that was to become Israel under the 1917 Balfour Declaration. Of course, Major Tudor Pole was not a major at the time, and Israel was but a twinkling in the eye of the Balfour Declaration. In just 2011 there was published the first full biography about Tudor Pole. Again, an extremely heroic individual who as a Second Lieutenant literally dug himself out from under the bodies of his fallen comrades, to later (1940) establish the Big Ben Silent Minute in World War Two, now observed at 3:00 p.m. in the US on Memorial Day, the last Monday in May and on Armistice Day for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918. Tudor Pole was so highly honored that there is still an organization today, that considers him an 'ascended master'. His predominate role in this story was his role in saving Abdu'l-Baha, Who had previously stayed in his home in Britain, and Whom he had met on many occasions, and Whom he would continue to know and serve in subsequent years. While serving in the British Directorate of Military Intelligence in the Middle East, Captain Tudor Pole became aware of a plot by Arabs in the Ottoman Empire to assassinate Abdu-l'Baha. Fortunately, both Tudor Pole and Abdu'l-Baha were highly appreciated by some British Ladies, whose husbands held influential positions in the British Parliament, to whom the ladies appealed to send a rescue mission to protect Abdu'l-Baha. Thus it was that General Allenby was ordered to execute the longest over-land expedition ever undertaken by the British to that date.

Abdu'l-Baha

While presently largely unknown by the general public, at that time Abdu'l-Baha was a very famous individual, his picture appearing on numerous occasions on the front page of newspapers in Britain, France, the United States and Canada, because of His having traveled extensively in the West. However, he had returned to Palestine before the beginning of World War One, and was considered a thorn in the side by the Ottoman Empire. This was not the first time that they had planned to kill Him. There had previously been sent a Commission, representatives of the Ottoman Empire, to arrest Him and take Him back to Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey). The ship for His transport ominously anchored in the harbor, but suddenly the next morning it pulled anchor and sailed away. What had happened was that those powers in Turkey had that night in 1908 been overthrown by The Young Turks, an event so influential and world changing that "The Young Turks" is a commonly used expression to describe any young persons eager for radical change to the established order.

But now, again ten years later, in 1918, Tudor Pole had uncovered a large unified Arab plot to strike at Haifa in Palestine (now Israel), so as to kill Abdu'l-Baha. Thanks to the march by General Allenby, the plot failed, but Allenby's troops and horses had become exhausted and had outrun his supplies, so he had to ask Abdu'l-Baha if He had any food for his troops.

It was Abdu'l-Baha's turn to rescue Allenby which He did, with the product of acres of grain for which he had brought back seed from the US in preparation for WW1 and this need, and He replied, "Yes, and for your horses also." For this He was knighted by the British Crown.

Abdu'l-Baha was always a defender and prophet of the right of the Jewish People to establish their homeland in what has become Israel. The relationship has again become reciprocal because the first thing that one now sees when sailing into the Bay of Haifa is the brightly lit golden roofed tomb on the top of Mt. Carmel where Abdu'l-Baha is buried. The spiritual heirs of Abdu'l-Baha remain committed and supportive to developing the ancient promises regarding the Jewish Divine Destiny, and the powers of opposition remain as fierce as ever. Great drama is about to ensue as those powers confront, what is held here to be the Divine Destiny.

The Threads now gather

So now the forces are being aligned. The Islamic State is about to try to take over Syria and Lebanon. Stored there, next door to Israel, are massive quantities of rockets, missiles and destructive weapons, just as there are in Gaza. Israel is also within the range of missiles from Iran and Pakistan, at least the latter already the possessor of nuclear weapons. Still and all, one on the side of God is a majority, and one must ask - "What is the Will of God?" One may not know what will occur, but one should know that there are ancient prophecies. It seems that we are about to see their fulfillment - and then we will understand them better.

Dramatic times indeed - but the most dramatic are still to come. It is a matter of recognizing them. Many have not recognized the events of the past for what they were - the fulfillment of Divine Destiny. Many will not recognize the events of the future as fulfillment of Divine Destiny. Those who deny God see all that has been written here, as being nonsense. Equally so, do those who have dogmatic beliefs and vain imaginations about the Divine Purpose. There is no need to try to speak/write to those so veiled.

The four parts/appendices of The Restoration of Israel
Part I - Introduction and the Ancient History of Israel
Part II - Events of the Last Century
Part III - The Two Secret Documents and the Beginning History of Islam
Part IV - The Final Culminating Acts