End Times: Both Muslims & Christians Agree!

We are in End Times.  Both Muslims and Christians agree.

Pew Research Centre, a world-wide respected surveyor of public opinions, says 41% of Americans believe that Jesus Christ definitely (23%) or probably (18%) will have returned to earth on or before the Year 2050.  Some American demographic groups are as high as 52% convinced.

For Muslims, they believe:

• End Times is the time of Al-Masih ad-Dajjal, the False Prophet 
• Jesus Christ and the Mahdi will appears shortly after the Dajjal appears, and Dajjal will be destroyed by them.

Muslims believe the following signs that the Dajjal will soon appear when:

• People will stop offering the prayers
• Dishonesty will be the way of life
• Falsehood will become a virtue
• People will mortgage their faith for worldly gain
• Usury and bribery will become legitimate
• There will be acute famine at the time
• There will be no shame amongst people
• Many people would worship Satan
• There would be no respect for elderly people
• People will start killing each other without any reason

To me, it seems we are already there.  Many of these signs are the same or similar to those mentioned in the Bible.

I suggest everybody reads my Open Letter to All Muslims (and all Christians, members of all other faiths, agnostics, and atheists)


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Devil's Driving Forces

Things are moving rapidly towards the End Times.  God is making moves.  The Devil is also making moves.  It is somewhat like a spiritual chess game.  Move and counter move.

Psalm 83, Ezekiel 38, 39, 29:10-12, Isaiah 17:1, and Zechariah 12:2-3 are likely all associated with the End Time process.  However, we don't know the sequence, nor when they will occur.

What we do know from these prophesies is that the King of the North (likely Turkey, with its capital Ankara due North of Jerusalem), Persia (today's Iran), Egypt (from Mediterranean to Aswan High Dam), Libya, Ethiopia, and many other Islamic countries around Israel are involved in the End Times.

What will cause an even greater de-stabilization of the Middle East?  Based on the following, all of the Middle East is becoming an even greater powder keg, perhaps approaching unstable nitroglycerine.

• The EU has passed a blocking regulation that orders are EU corporations to continue commercial contracts and dealings wih Iran, and blocks all sanctions against them that might be imposed by USA.
• Iran has held war games in the Strait of Hormuz (between Saudia Arabia and Iran), through which 1/3 of all the world's oil flows on a daily basis, and has threatened to block the straits if the US imposes sanctions against Iran.
• Iranians are protesting in the streets against the rapidly approaching snapback of US sanctions against Iran.  Many have died.  Also see here.
• Iran has an exploding rate of inflation, reaching as high as 65% per year.
  
  

  

  Like Western governments, Iran plays with the published inflation rate,
  while the true rate of inflation is far worse.  The people aren't stupid,
  so the government fools nobody in the end, and destroys trust by lying
  to the people.   Source:  http://www.imi.org.cn/en/?p=4657 and
  https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevehanke/2018/07/29/irans-rial-is-in-a-death-spiral-again/

  
  
• Today, hours before the US sanctions are set to re-start, Iran is suddenly ready to discuss and negotiate so as to avoid the US sanctions.
• As Iran's currency collapses, Iranians are buying gold as a hedge against inflation.
• President Trump has warned all US allies that any violation of US sanctions against Iran will be dealt with swiftly and severely.
• The Turkish lira has devalued by 20% in the last 3 months (ie. 80%/yr), and Turkish government bond yields have more than doubled in the last 3 years (19%+ interest rate).  This places huge pressures on both the people and the government.
• Turkey has seized the banking assets of US government officials in Turkey as retaliation against US sanctions against Turkey.

For all the above moves on the chess board, I am unsure which moves belong to God, which are the Devil's, or just silly humans arguing and fighting.

Time will tell.

However, we can be assured that the time is short, and The End is near.  With all of the above driving forces (and many more similar ones soon to appear), I estimate a major war in the Middle East on or before November 2018, likely ending in a nuclear exchange by Israel, Russia, USA, China, and/or North Korea.  Not to be left out, once the A-bombs start to fly, India and Pakistan may have a go at each other to settle old scores.

Are you ready to meet your Maker, Jesus Christ?  If not, you'd better get ready.  Soon!  My recommendations are:

•  Detailed Description of Likely End Time Events
• Are You a Full, True Christian?  They are the only ones who go to Heaven, the rest go to Hell
• Roadmap to Heaven (or Hell if you make a wrong turn)
•  God's 13 Commandments for Christians (if you purposefully break one or more of these Commandments on a regular basis, this is a sign that you are not Born Again, and will likely be turned away by Jesus as an unknown stranger and fake Christian, sending you to Hell).

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New, Upgraded Version

https://tinyurl.com/JC-Coming-24

The above link provides a 22 page Adobe Acrobat pdf  document providing the best available information, references, and links for describing God's End Times process occurring over the next 7 years.

I look forward to your questions and comments.

Previous versions are available here: https://et-manitoulin.blogspot.com/p/documents.html


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Sunday June 3 2018: Enoch's Pentecost

Sunday June 3, 2018 will be Pentecost according to Enoch's calendar.  This may be a day for a huge pouring out of God's Holy Spirit to the righteous and God's Elect prior to us entering into the Great Tribulation in the Fall of  2018.

John 20:1-22 tells us that after Jesus was crucified, He rose again 3 days later, ascended to Heaven, then returned to Earth and met with His Disciples that Sunday.  Jesus showed them the nail holes in His hands and side, then breathed on all of them to give them the Holy Spirit.  Jesus walked the Earth for the next 40 days helping His Apostles prepare for what was to soon come.  After 40 days, Jesus instructed His Disciples to await the helper (Holy Spirit) that Jesus would send for them.  Jesus re-ascended to Heaven through the clouds.  Ten days later, on Pentecost (ie. 50 days after the Holy day of First Fruits, when Jesus first ascended to Heaven), the Holy Spirit arrived as promised, and filled up all of Jesus' Disciples to overflowing with the Holy Spirit.

Notice that filling up with the Holy Spirit was a 2 stage process. Does this relate to the Bible's allegory of the 10 Virgins in Matthew 25:1-13, where 5 wise and 5 foolish, where all virgins had some oil for their lamps, but the 5 foolish virgins ran out of oil (ie. Holy Spirit) for their lamps due to the unexpected delay waiting for the Bridegroom's arrival (ie. Jesus) for the wedding?

As an analogy, if you see a sign saying "Last Gas for 500 km" as you drive along a strange highway on your vacation, what should you do?  Of course, one should realize the gas tank on most cars allows us a range of around 500 km.  Even if you filled up just before this sign, it is wise to take advantage of this last opportunity to refill your tank.  If you ignore the warning, you will likely run out of gas and be stranded; ruining your vacation.

Same goes for your spiritual gas tank and your share of God's Holy Spirit.  Your tank should be overflowing.  This is especially true as we enter God's End Times process.

Calendars have been a point of contention for some time:

• Enoch's calendar comes to us from the Book of Enoch (dated at 400 BC).

• Babylonian Captivity under King Nebuchadnezzar from 597 BC till 527 BC corrupted or influenced the Jewish calendar to some unknown degree.
  
   
• the Julian Calendar of 46 BC (in place at the time of Jesus Christ).
• Jewish calendar was radically changed after the 70 AD destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, the outlawing of the Sanhedrin (Supreme Court of the Jewish faith), and banned rulings on the Jewish calendar.  Since then, a Babylonian-type calendar was established for the Jews.
  
   
• the declaration of Sunday as the day of rest in 321 AD by Roman Emperor Constantine,
  
   
• Outlawing of God's Sabbath (Saturday), and adoption of Sunday by the Roman Catholic Church via the Council of Laodicia  in 363 AD, and
  
   
•  the Gregorian Calendar of 1582 AD used by almost all Christian organized religions had a different definition for Pentecost, aligned to many pagan ceremonial dates since

As Enoch's Calendar is the oldest, perhaps it is the best.  Enoch was:

• the 7th generation born after Adam & Eve,
• mentioned in the Book of Genesis 5:21-24 of the Bible (ie. Enoch was a righteous man who walked with God),
  
   
• the father of Methuselah (the oldest man, and the Flood couldn't start until  Methuselah died and the 3 days of mourning had passed), and
  
   
• the the great-grandfather of Noah.
• quoted from in the Bible, Book of Jude 1:14. 

The Book of Enoch was rejected by the Jews because it contained prophecies about Jesus Christ.  The Book of Enoch is reinforced by the Book of Jubilees.  Neither the Book of Enoch, nor the Book of Jubilees are a part of the Holy Bible, as the Roman Catholic Church rejected both books around 400 AD, possibly because the manuscripts were lost or partially lost at that time.  We received better research and manuscripts for the Book of Enoch from the Ethiopian Church of Christ in 1906 AD, and the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1976 AD.

As Enoch's calendar is 364 days long, but resets its start each solar year as the day after the Spring Solstice, it is accurate and stay accurate with the sun forever, without the need for leap years, nor strange variations in the length of months as defined by the various Roman Emperors.  In other words, Enoch's calendar is simple, accurate, and se


ems to be endorsed by God.  Can we ask for more?

The Jewish calendar of today varies on a 17 year cycle, and requires someone to decide about the insertion of an extra month into the year every now and then based upon the barley harvest in Jerusalem, the phases of the moon, and many other factors.  It is obviously very complicated, and inaccurate to varying degrees during the 17 year cycle between the sun and moon.  This can result in Holy Days defined in the Bible being significantly off from God's reality.

If you celebrate a non-Holy day, and fail to celebrate a Holy Day as defined by God's Bible, all because you use the wrong calendar or don't care, you upset God, and sin.

I have done a fair amount of research on this calendar problem.  It appears that we have good reason to believe Sabbath (Saturday) is correctly defined (ie.  there is a negligible chance that Sabbath is one of the other six days of the week through some screw up in ancient history).

Of course, the Devil is glad we have confusion about God's calendar, and he wants to use this as a wedge between God and His people.  Getting the Holy Days correct is one of the ways we demonstrate we are part of God's family.

I was somewhat disappointed that I felt no filling up of my Holy Spirit on the Pentecost defined by most Christian churches (May 20th, 2018).  Perhaps it was because this date was based upon a false calendar.  Perhaps Enoch's Pentecost on June 3rd will produce better results.

If you are interested in Enoch's Calendar, there is a free app for your Android phone, available here:   https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.RipCurrentInteractive.EnochCalendar&hl=en 

I am not totally convinced that Enoch's calendar is the one and only calendar of God.  I reserve the right to change my mind if further research shows it is wrong, or time & better knowledge offers a better choice.  Until then, I believe Enoch's calendar is the correct calendar.

I plan to focus my prayers in a growing crescendo between now and June 2, then adding fasting in the 3 prior days ( May 31 to June 3),  Sabbath from Friday twilight to Saturday twilight, then Pentecost celebrations starting from Twilight (sundown) on Sat. June 2 till twilight on Sunday June 3.

I look forward to having my Holy Spirit filled to overflowing on June 3rd.  Will you consider the above, ask your questions now, and come join me?


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Full, True Christians

Only Full, True Christian will go to Heaven.

Atheists, non-Christians, and luke-warm Christians will all go to Hell for eternal suffering.

If you want to go to Heaven, you must meet all 12 of God’s mandatory requirements for being a Full, True Christian.

Are you a Full, True Christian, ready for Jesus Christ?

If you aren't already a Full, True Christian, you can quickly solve that problem.

Full, True Christian is defined (by John 1:29, 10:9; and Matthew 7:14, and Phil. 1:23) as someone who:

1. Has become aware of God, God’s Word in the Holy Bible, Jesus Christ, Holy Ghost, God’s Commandments, and God’s Will;
   
    
2. Realizes their previous sins against God's Will and Commandments, and God’s just judgement for those sins (ie. death, and maybe God’s wrath and judgement), and the opportunity for everlasting life through Jesus Christ in spite of those past sins; then
    
3. Chooses on a free-will basis to believe with all their heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that He came to Earth to pay for everybody’s sins by His crucifixion, death, and resurrection;
    
4. Admit they are a sinner;
    
5. Confess their sins to Jesus Christ;
    
6. Repent their sins;
    
7. Ask for the forgiveness of Jesus Christ;
    
8. Ask Jesus Christ to cleanse their heart, mind, body, and soul so that they are ready to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit into their life;
    
9. Commit themselves to Jesus Christ, their Saviour, and will joyfully follow God’s will and all His Commandments;
    
10. Loves the Lord their God with all their heart and with all their soul and with all their mind and with all their strength;
11. Did a full immersion baptism in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit (NB: sprinkling of babies with Holy water isn't adequate); and
12. Leaving behind their dying life of sin, and be resurrected into a new righteous life with Jesus Christ and all the saints in His church, and the filling up of their life and soul with the Holy Spirit.

If someone told you (or you believe) you are a "Born Again Christian", this may not be enough to get you to Heaven.  According to the Bible, you must meet all of the 12 mandatory conditions above.

If you buy a solid gold "Rolex watch" in a dark alley in New York City for a very low price, it is likely damaged, stolen, or a fake.
 
Likewise, be careful if you are a Mormon, Jehovah's Witnesses, Roman Catholic,  Protestant, and similar organized religions that references "Jesus Christ" and claims to be "Christian".  Your version of Jesus and/or Christianity may be a fake, or include idol worship (ie. worshiping and praying to Mary, Mother of Jesus; praying to Saints, etc.), or similar sins; designed by the Devil to deceive you.  You must ensure you are praying and worshiping only to the one, true God in a proper manner; neither a fake Jesus, nor idol worship, nor blasphemy.  Remember how upset Jesus was about the  Pharisees, Sadducees, and the unholy practices in the synagogues during His times; similar to how organized religions have lost their way today.  Compare your Church's doctrine and your definition of Jesus with the Jesus defined by the King James version of the Bible.  Come out of her before it is too late.

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*** 2020-4-29 Addendum ***

There is a 10 point test for checking to see if you are a full, true Christian, or had a false conversion, or you're a wolf in sheep's clothing.  See https://et-manitoulin.blogspot.com/2020/04/full-true-christian-or-wolf.html

*** 2020-4-29 End Addendum ***

North Korean Decoy

Things suddenly look better over in North Korea (DPRK), but should we believe the Main Stream Media hype?

Henry Gruver is a “Prayer Walker to the World.”  He started walking with the Lord on the Skid Row streets of Phoenix, Arizona in 1961 at the age of 18, and today he is still walking with God. Known widely for his detailed visions for nations, his ministry has spanned many continents and 54 countries.  Wherever his Heavenly Father leads him, he prays.

Kim Jong Un, Leader of
N. Korea (DPRK)

In this video, Henry describes:

• that he had previously seen the vision of Kim Jung Un being assassinated by his body guard (yet to occur).
   
• Key parts of S. Korea, especially universities, has been infiltrated and overtaken by a 5th Column from N. Korea (Democratic Peoples Republic of North Korea ("DPRK") .  This invasion by N. Korean sleeper agents within S. Korea has contributed to the impeachment of the previous President and her sentencing to 24 years in jail
   
• President Moon Jae-in of S. Korea is currently negotiating a peace treaty between North and South Korea.

Once a peace treaty has been signed between the partitioned Koreas, US military must immediately withdraw from S. Korea according to their constitution.  If this North-South peace treaty is a false peace, this will leave S. Korea defenseless.

Henry also reminds us that N. Korea had received USSR nuclear designs for EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse) nuclear weapons 20 years ago, and since then, further improved on these designs, and he has them ready to use.

If Henry is correct, this may explain why Kim Jong Un has halted nuclear testing, is now playing nice, attended the Olympics, trade missions, cultural exchanges, and similar ploys.  Kim Jong Un is ready to go to nuclear war against the USA and Japan, but must bide his time till the Devil calls his name.

N. Korea is rumored to have two satellites in Earth polar orbit,, each of which is carrying an EMP nuclear device.  One of this satellites is over N. America every 6 hours, presenting Kim Jong Un with a decision,

 "Do I push the button now, or wait another 6 hours?"

Once USA and Japan have suffered an EMP attack from N. Korea, they are sitting ducks for Russia and China to attack.

It is only a matter of time, when the Middle East is ready to go for the Psalm 83/Ezekiel 38-39 battle against Israel, that all of the players will orchestrate their attacks simultaneously.

There is no escape, except through Jesus Christ.

Now is when you need to get right with Jesus, as soon as possible.  See Probable Sequence of End Time Events

I don't know exactly what will occur, nor when it will occur. Nobody does, except God.  However, May 12 through 14th, 2018 is a highly likely period.

May God bless you, but remember Psalm 5:11

"But let all those that put their trust in Thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because Thou defendest them: let them also that love Thy name be joyful in Thee."

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History of the Promise Land & Israel

* * * Note:   This is yet incomplete, but I thought it better to publish 80% done rather than 100% never. * * *
  
The squeeze play plight of Gaza's people is a chronic, sad tale.

Nobody likes Hamas except the people of Gaza who elect and re-elect them as their political leaders.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood wants Gaza under its power and control.  The Muslin Brotherhood was removed from power in Egypt by a military coup in July 2013, so Egypt has closed its borders to Gaza, except for a rare humanitarian aid shipment.  Egypt wants to squeeze the Gazian people until the people submit to Egyptian influence and rule by the Muslim Brotherhood.

Brief History of Jews and Israel

My thanks to CBC News,  Wikipedia, and many other Internet sources, as summarized here:

~1312 BC Israelites leave Egypt under the leadership of Moses, and the protection of God, headed for the Promised Land  (Middle East), which was promised to them forever by God.  God blessed the Israelites because of His covenant with Abraham, as well as the sins and evil done by those who were then occupying the Promised Land.  As the Israelites grow in population and skill, they slowly displace all previous occupants with God's never ending help.









~1003 BC  King David captures from the Jebusites what will become the City of David and Jerusalem.  David buys the threshing floor as the alter site for worshiping God.

c. 740 BC–c. 722 BC   The Northern Kingdom falls into sin and away from God.  God finally resorts to punishing them when Israel falls to the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and its former inhabitants disappeared from history as "The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel".  The Southern Kingdom of Judah, including Jerusalem, continued under Hebrew rule.

 

In 721 BC, Israel was destroyed by the Assyrians

 

586 BC   Kingdom of Judah falls into more and more sin, and away from God.  God finally punishes the Jews by the invasion of Babylon's King Nebuchadnezzar, Solomon's Temple is destroyed, and thousands of Jews are placed into slavery captivity in Babylon for 70 years, including the Prophet Daniel.

 539 BC   After 70 years of punishment in captivity, God arranges for the Persians to invade and conquer Babylonian Kingdom.  The Jews are released from captivity, and the Persian King Cyrus authorizes the Jews to inhabit and rebuild Jerusalem, including a new Temple.

332 BC   Alexander The Great invades everywhere, including Israel and Jerusalem, all as foretold by Biblical prophecy by Prophet Daniel.  Impressed by the prophesy, Jerusalem is spared from destruction, but is placed under Alexander's control.  After the Greeks were finished, next came the Ptolemies of Egypt, then the Seleucids of Syria to hold the Jews captive.

167–161 BC   The Jewish Maccabees lead a successful revolt against the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, recapture Jerusalem, and commemorate their victory with Hanukkah holiday; still celebrated today by all Jews.

 

63 BCE   Roman General Pompey the Great lay siege to and entered Jerusalem and the Temple.  All of Judea became a client kingdom of Rome.

66–70 AD   The First Jewish–Roman War ended with destruction of the Second Temple and the fall of Jerusalem. 1,100,000 people are killed by the Romans during the siege, and 97,000 captured and enslaved.

115–117 AD    Kitos War (Revolt against Trajan) – a second Jewish-Roman War initiated in large Jewish communities of Cyprus, Cyrene (modern Libya), Aegipta (modern Egypt) and Mesopotamia (modern Syria and Iraq). It led to mutual killing of hundreds of thousands Jews, Greeks and Romans, ending with a total defeat of Jewish rebels and complete extermination of Jews in Cyprus and Cyrene by the newly installed Emperor Hadrian.

131–136 AD   The Roman emperor Hadrian, among other provocations, renames Jerusalem "Aelia Capitolina" and prohibits circumcision. Simon bar Kokhba (Bar Kosiba) leads a large Jewish revolt against Rome in response to Hadrian's actions. In the aftermath, most Jewish population is annihilated (about 580,000 killed) and Hadrian renames the province of Judea to Syria Palaestina, so as to help root out Judaism.

138 AD   With Emperor Hadrian's death, the persecution of Jews within the Roman Empire is eased and Jews are allowed to visit Jerusalem on Tisha B'av (Ninth of Av, a day of mourning for destruction of Jerusalem & Temple on this day). In the following centuries the Jewish center moves to Galilee. 

361–363 AD   The last pagan Roman Emperor, Julian, allows the Jews to return to "holy Jerusalem which you have for many years longed to see rebuilt" and to rebuild the Second Temple. Shortly after, the Emperor is assassinated, and the plan is dissolved. 

438 AD   The Empress Eudocia removes the ban on Jews' praying at the Jerusalem Temple site and the heads of the Community in Galilee issue a call "to the great and mighty people of the Jews": "Know that the end of the exile of our people has come"! 

610–628 AD   Jews of Galilee led by Benjamin of Tiberias gain autonomy in Jerusalem after revolting against Heraclius as a joint military campaign with ally Sassanid Empire under Khosrau II and Jewish militias from Persia, but are subsequently massacred. 

1095–1291 AD   Christian Crusades begin, sparking warfare with Islam in Palestine. Crusaders temporarily capture Jerusalem in 1099. Tens of thousands of Jews are killed by European crusaders throughout Europe and in the Middle East.

 

1141 AD   Yehuda Halevi issues a call to the Jews to emigrate to Palestine. He is buried in Jerusalem.

 

1187 AD   Upon the capture of Jerusalem, Saladin summons the Jews and permits them to resettle in the city. In particular, the residents of Ashkelon, a large Jewish settlement, respond to his request.

 

1267 AD   Nahmanides (Ramban) settles in Jerusalem and builds the Ramban Synagogue.

1488 AD   Obadiah ben Abraham, commentator on the Mishnah, arrives in Jerusalem and marks a new epoch for the Jewish community. 

 

1700 AD   Rabbi Judah HeHasid makes aliyah (emigration to Jerusalem & Land of Israel, and Palestine) accompanied by hundreds of his followers.

 

1740 AD   Ottoman authorities invite Rabbi Haim Abulafia (1660–1744), renowned Kabbalist and Rabbi of Izmir, to come to the Holy Land. Rabbi Abulafia is to rebuild the city of Tiberias, which has lain desolate for some 70 years. The city's revival is seen by many as a sign of the coming of the Messiah.

1740–1750 AD   Thousands of Jews immigrate to Palestine under the influence of Messianic predictions. The large immigration greatly increases the size and strength of the Jewish Settlement in Palestine.

 

1799 AD   While French troops were in Palestine besieging the city of Acre, Napoleon prepared a Proclamation requesting Asian and African Jews to help him conquer Jerusalem, but his unsuccessful attempt to capture Acre prevented it from being issued.

 

1808–1840 AD   Large-scale aliyah in hope of Hastening Redemption in anticipation of the arrival of the Messiah in 1840.

 

1834–1835 AD   Muslims and Druze attack Jews in Safed, Hebron & in Jerusalem.

 

1860–1875 AD   Moshe Montefiori builds Jewish neighbourhoods outside the Old City of Jerusalem starting with Mishkenot Sha'ananim.

 

1870–1890 AD   Russian Zionist group Hovevei Zion (Lovers of Zion) and Bilu (est. 1882) set up a series of Jewish settlements in the Land of Israel, financially aided by Baron Edmond James de Rothschild. In Rishon LeZion Eliezer ben Yehuda revives Hebrew as spoken modern language.

 

1881–1884, 1903–1906, 1918–1920 AD   Three major waves of pogroms (persecutions) kill tens of thousands of Jews in Russia and Ukraine. More than two million Russian Jews emigrate in the period 1881–1920; 75% heading to USA, balance to Europe and elsewhere. 

 

1881 AD   On December 30–31, the First Congress of all Zionist Unions for the colonization of Palestine was held at Focşani, Romania.

 

1882–1903 AD   Based on the 1881 Congress, the First Aliyah, a major wave of Jewish immigrants occurs to build a homeland in Palestine.

 

1890 AD   The term "Zionism" is coined by an Austrian Jewish publicist Nathan Birnbaum in his journal Self Emancipation and was defined as the national movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel.

 

1897 AD   In response to the Dreyfus affair, Theodore Herzl writes Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State), advocating the creation of a free and independent Jewish state in Israel.  

 

1897 AD   The First Zionist Congress was held at Basel, Switzerland which brought the World Zionist Organization (WZO) into being. 

 

1916, May 16   British and French negotiate a secret treaty on how the Middle East and Ottoman Empire will be divided up amongst European powers after the end of First World War.

 

1917
    The British defeat the Turks and gain control of Palestine.   At this time, there were approximately 50,000 Jews; 50,000 Christians; and more than 700,000 Arab Muslims in the areas comprising Israel and Palestine of today.  In the USA, there were 20 million Americans who had German ancestry, and 3.5 million Jews.  Over the course of next few decades, however, the demographics were changed by shipping hundreds of thousands of East European Jews to Palestine.The British issue the Balfour Declaration (Nov. 2, 1917) which gives official British support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people ... it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine". Many Jews interpret this to mean that all of Palestine was to become a Jewish state.

 

1935   There were now 300,000 Jews in Palestine. Tel Aviv, founded in 1909, had 100,000 people.  

 Palestinian Liberation Organization ("PLO"), a political group started in 1959 by Yasser Arafat and others.  PLO used and/or sponsored terrorism from 1965 onwards as their prime method to achieve their political goals, until around 1988.

Jordon declared the West Bank to be officially separated and independent from Jordon in 1988, forming the State of Palestine.

After the Madrid Peace Conference in 1991, Israel considered PLO to have renounced terrorism. In 1993, PLO chairman Yasser Arafat recognized the State of Israel in an official letter to Israel's Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin. In response to Arafat's letter, Israel decided to revise its stance toward the PLO and to recognize the organization as the representative of the Palestinian people. This led to the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, where the Palestinian Authority, lead by Arafat, was created for self-government of the West Bank and Gaza.  However, the PLO has employed violence in the years since 1993, particularly during the 2000-2005 Second Intifada.



Palestinian Islamic Jihad ("PIJ") is an extremely violent and hard lined terrorist organization in Gaza, that has sought the destruction and removal of Israel.  PIJ is in direct competition against Hamas.  PIJ says they don't hate Jews, but they strongly hate the State of Israel.  PIJ used to be much more powerful in Gaza, resents their loss of power to Hamas, so makes trouble for Hamas, and tries to upstage them (eg. by antagonizing and attacking Israel and Jews, blaming it on Hamas if it fails, and claiming responsibility if it succeeds).

Palestinian National Authority ("PNA") controls the West Bank area, and was kicked out of Gaza by Hamas in June 2007.  PNA is controlled by Fatah (a.k.a. Palestinian Liberation Organization, "PLO"), a political group started in 1959 by Yasser Arafat and others, and has used and/or sponsored terrorism to achieve their political goals throughout their existence.

CBC Radio Documentary:   Fifty Years After The Six Days War
 




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