Rabbi Looks at the Last Days, A: Surprising Insights on Israel, the End Times and Popular Misconceptions by Bernis Jonathan

Rabbi Looks at the Last Days, A: Surprising Insights on Israel, the End Times and Popular Misconceptions by Bernis Jonathan

Author:Bernis, Jonathan [Bernis, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Jewish Christians, End of the world, REL067060, Messianic Judaism, Bible—Prophecies—Israel, REL079000
ISBN: 9781441261304
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2013-01-15T00:00:00+00:00


The Balfour Declaration

Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in 1917, control of the land then known as Palestine came under British control. Britain’s then Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour was a committed Christian who believed that the return of Jews to Israel was connected to the Second Coming of Messiah. On November 2, 1917, the British issued what became known as the Balfour Declaration: “His Majesty’s Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object. . . .”[35]

Despite the declaration’s call for “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, nothing official took place. Encouraged by the rhetoric of the Balfour Declaration, however, a steady stream of Jews began to return to Israel.

Meanwhile, Arab residents of the region grew increasingly alarmed. The first recorded terrorist attack on an Israeli settlement occurred in 1920, when Arab villagers besieged Tel Hai, a Jewish settlement in Galilee near the Syrian border. Two months later, hundreds of Arabs descended on Tel Hai again, killing six more Jews. During the following months, armed Palestinian Arabs attacked more than a dozen Jewish agricultural settlements.

During the Passover and Easter holidays of 1920, Palestinian Arab pilgrims known as “Nebi Musa,” on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to visit what they believed was Moses’ tomb, were incited to join in a violent plan to ransack the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The riot claimed the lives of five Jews and four Arabs and left 244 wounded—the vast majority of whom were Jewish. Sympathetic to the Arabs, the British military did not allow the Jews to arm themselves. This riot is considered to be the first act of terrorism launched by Arabs against the Jewish population in Israel.[36]



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