Zionist Group Awards Trump its Highest Honor:
�No President Has Done More� to Promote
Zionism
Washington, D.C.
� While President Donald Trump has often
referred to himself a �friend of Israel,�
he has now been officially recognized for
that stance by a pro-Zionist group that advocates
for Jewish nationalism.
On Monday, the Friends of Zion Museum presented
President Trump with its Friends of Zion Award
at the White House.
�No president in history has ever built
such an alliance for the State of Israel and
the Jewish people, and no president has courageously
stood up for the State of Israel on the global
stage as you had Mr. President,� declared
Dr. Mike Evans, founder of the Friends of
Zion Museum.
�President Trump�s historic recognition
of Jerusalem will secure his place in history
as the first American president to take that
step since the founding of the State of Israel
in 1948.�
�We believe no American president in history
has done more to defend the Jewish people
in the United Nations,� Evans added.
The Friends of Zion Museum is located in Jerusalem
and works to push the Israeli agenda while
attempting to legitimize the taking of Palestinian
lands.
One of the biggest moves, celebrated by Trump�s
Zionist backers, was his recent announcement
recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Zionist allied Evangelicals lauded the Trump
administration�s staunch support for Israel.
�This president is an anomaly.
He is an anomaly because he keeps his promises.
Evangelicals, conservatives across this country
are grateful for the fact that he has actually
done exactly what he campaigned on,� said
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research
Council.
Many people fail to understand what encompasses
Zionism.
For those unfamiliar with the term Zionism,
Vox explains:
Zionism is Israel�s national ideology.
Zionists believe Judaism is a nationality
as well as a religion, and that Jews deserve
their own state in their ancestral homeland,
Israel, in the same way the French people
deserve France or the Chinese people should
have China.
It�s what brought Jews back to Israel in
the first place, and also at the heart of
what concerns Arabs and Palestinians about
the Israeli state.
Arabs and Palestinians generally oppose Zionism,
as the explicitly Jewish character of the
Israeli state means that Jews have privileges
that others don�t.
For instance, any Jew anywhere in the world
can become an Israeli citizen, a right not
extended to any other class of person.
Arabs, then, often see Zionism as a species
of colonialism and racism aimed at appropriating
Palestinian land and systematically disenfranchising
the Palestinians that remain.
Arab states actually pushed through a UN General
Assembly resolution labeling Zionism �a
form of racism and racial discrimination�
in 1975, though it was repealed 16 years later.
Despite the Zionist position, Israel is on
track to become an apartheid state.
In fact, a recent UN report noted that Israel
had established �an apartheid regime that
oppresses and dominates the Palestinian people
as a whole.�
The report � Israeli Practices towards the
Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid
� was commissioned and published by the
UN Economic and Social Commission for Western
Asia (ESCWA) and launched in Beirut, and urged
governments to �support boycott, divestment
and sanctions [BDS] activities and respond
positively to calls for such initiatives�.
A brief history of Zionism is as follows,
according to Britannica:
In the 16th and 17th centuries a number of
�messiahs� came forward trying to persuade
Jews to �return� to Palestine.
The Haskala (�Jewish Enlightenment�) movement
of the late 18th century, however, urged Jews
to assimilate into Western secular culture.
In the early 19th century interest in a return
of the Jews to Palestine was kept alive mostly
by Christian millenarians.
Despite the Haskala, eastern European Jews
did not assimilate and, in reaction to tsarist
pogroms, formed the ?ovevei ?iyyon (�Lovers
of Zion�) to promote the settlement of Jewish
farmers and artisans in Palestine.
A political turn was given to Zionism by Theodor
Herzl, an Austrian journalist who regarded
assimilation as most desirable but, in view
of anti-Semitism, impossible to realize.
Thus, he argued, if Jews were forced by external
pressure to form a nation, they could lead
a normal existence only through concentration
in one territory.
In 1897 Herzl convened the first Zionist Congress
at Basel, Switzerland, which drew up the Basel
program of the movement, stating that �Zionism
strives to create for the Jewish people a
home in Palestine secured by public law.
When the Ottoman government refused Herzl�s
request for Palestinian autonomy, he found
support in Great Britain.
In 1903 the British government offered 6,000
square miles (15,500 square km) of uninhabited
Uganda for settlement, but the Zionists held
out for Palestine.
Upon the outbreak of World War I, political
Zionism reasserted itself, and its leadership
passed to Russian Jews living in England.
Two such Zionists, Chaim Weizmann and Nahum
Sokolow, were instrumental in obtaining the
Balfour Declaration from Great Britain (November
2, 1917), which promised British support for
the creation of a Jewish national home in
Palestine.
The declaration was included in Britain�s
League of Nations mandate over Palestine (1922).
Revealing the intimate connection between
the Rothschild family and the creation of
Israel, the head of the Rothschild banking
empire, and staunch supporter of Israel, Lord
Jacob Rothschild, recently revealed the critical
role of his family in the securing the Balfour
Declaration, which �helped pave the way
for the creation of Israel.�
The Balfour Declaration, written in 1917,
was an official document from the British
Foreign Minister, Lord Balfour, addressed
to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the Zionist
movement in Britain at the time � and Lord
Jacob Rothschild�s uncle.
During the television interview with Rothschild,
he revealed new details about the extremely
pivotal role his cousin Dorothea de Rothschild
played.
Rothschild described Dorothea, who was in
her teens at the time, as �devoted to Israel,�
and said: �What she did was crucially important.��
Rothschild went on to say that Dorothy acted
as a conduit between Zionist leader Chaim
Weizmann and the British political establishment.
Dorothy �told Weizmann how to integrate,
how to insert himself into British establishment
life, which he learned very quickly,� according
to Rothschild.
Rothschild explained that the manner in which
the declaration was procured was extraordinary.
�It was the most incredible piece of opportunism,�
he reasoned.
�[Weizmann] gets to Balfour,� Rothschild
described, �and unbelievably, he persuades
Lord Balfour, and Lloyd George, the prime
minister, and most of the ministers, that
this idea of a national home for Jews should
be allowed to take place.
I mean it�s so, so unlikely.�
According to former Israeli Ambassador Daniel
Taub, the Balfour Declaration �changed the
course of history for the Middle East.�
Rothschild said his family at the time was
divided on the idea of Israel, noting that
some family members �didn�t think it was
a good thing that this national home be established
there.�
In her book, Against Our Better Judgment:
The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used
to Create Israel, Alison Weir exposed the
fact that numerous drafts of the declaration
were presented to Zionists in the United States
prior to the document being finalized.
Weir�s book notes that one of the primary
inducements offered to British leaders to
issue the Balfour Declaration was the Zionist
claim that they would bring the U.S. into
world war I on Britain�s side if the British
would promise to enable the Zionist colonization
of Palestine.
The deeply intertwined relationship between
modern Zionism and the Rothschild banking
empire cannot be overstated.
Without the Rothschild family�s vast influence
and direct assistance, Israel very well may
have never been created.
It seems that contrary to popular opinion,
Trump isn�t opposing the globalist and Zionists,
but rather, operating at the behest of his
Zionist billionaire overlords, such as Jacob
Rothschild and billionaire casino magnate
Sheldon Adelson, to further entrench the state
of Israel to the detriment of the surrounding
Arab population who are treated as second-class
citizens.
