What is also weird is that I wrote about a coincidence in my last post. Maybe, I should rename my blog into “Coincidences Buster”, not that I believe in coincidences. I believe more in that things happen for a reason and they usually lead to certain actions and reactions, which might lead to what people define today as being a coincidence.
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On this day, four separate, yet related incidents occurred in the recent history of man, actually, the history of Israel. Taking them in chronological order;
- David Ben-Gurion - originally David Grün - was born in Poland in 1886. He was a leading Zionist, a co-founder of the Zionist State of Israel, a Mapai (Labour Party) leader, the first Defence Minister of Israel, the first Prime Minister of Israel, and the ideological father of Israel‘s nuclear weapons’ programme. He moved to Palestine in 1906, but was forced out in 1915 by the Ottomans. However, he came back to Palestine - with a family this time - after the WWI after he joined a Jewish Battalion of the British Army in 1918.
He eventually died in Israel in December 1973.
Some of Ben-Gurion’s Quotes:
"The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfil -- From the Nile to the Euphrates."
“We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.”
“If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti - Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault ? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”
"The Achilles heel of the Arab coalition is the Lebanon. Muslim supremacy in this country is artificial and can be easily overthrown. A Christian state ought to be set up there, with its southern frontier on the river Litani. We would sign a treaty of alliance with the state. Thus, when we have broken the strength of the Arab legion and bombed Amman, we could wipe out Trans-Jordan; after that Syria could fall. And if Egypt still dared to make war on us, we would bomb Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo. We should thus end the war and would have paid to Egypt, Assyria and Chaldea on behalf of our ancestors."
- The largest Jewish Ghetto, Warsaw, was built in Poland in 1940.
DO YOU SPOT ANY SIMILARITIES?
- Ten politicians and officials, who where convicted during the Nuremberg Trials for their involvement in the making of the Holocaust, were executed, in 1946.
Those men were; Hans Frank - German, Alfred Jodl - German, Julius Streicher - German, Ernst Kaltenbrunner - Austrian, Fritz Sauckel - German, Wilhelm Keitel - German, Joachim von Ribbentrop - German, Wilhelm Frick - German, Arthur Seyss-Inquart - Austrian, and Alfred Rosenberg - Estonia.
- John Paul II - originally Karol Józef Wojtyla - was the first Polish cardinal to be appointed Pope, in 1978. He seemed to be in favour of Israel in his statements and leading actions of the Catholic Church. On one hand, His statements lacked condemnations of the atrocities made by the State of Israel against the Palestinians. While, on the other hand, Pope John Paul II condemned anti-Semitism - quoting him; “Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, "deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone." I repeat, "By anyone.".
Sometimes, history goes in circles, trying to bite its own tail. Some other times, it passes the baton from one runner to the next.
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