STRONG OPPOSITION TO THE PLAN TO PARTITION PALESTINE INTO ARAB AND JEWISH STATES HAS ARISEN HERE IN A NEW QUARTER — AMONG THE BRITISH-ISRAELITES, AN ORGANIZATION OF ELDERLY MEN AND WOMEN WHO PROFESS THAT THE LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL ARE THE ANCESTORS OF THE PRESENT POPULATION OF THE BRITISH ISLES.
THE BRITISH-ISRAEL WORLD FEDERATION, NUMBERING SEVERAL THOUSAND PERSONS WHO BELIEVE THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK ARE THE BRITISH AND THAT THE PROPHECIES OF THE RETURN OF ISRAEL TO PALESTINE MEAN THE BRITISH, NOT THE JEWS, IS CONDUCTING AN ARDENT CAMPAIGN FOR ABROGATION OF THE PALESTINE MANDATE AND ESTABLISHMENT OF A BRITISH CROWN COLONY IN PALESTINE.
“GREAT BRITAIN IS ISRAEL AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL SHOULD BE ONE AND UNDIVIDED,” THE ORGANIZATION PROCLAIMS IN AN ELABORATE BOOKLET, “THE SOVEREIGNTY OF PALESTINE,” WHICH IT HAS JUST PUBLISHED. “THE BRITISH THRONE IS THE MODERN CONTINUATION OF THE THRONE OF DAVID. AS KEYSTONE OF PEACE IN THE NEAR EAST, PALESTINE SHOULD BECOME THE BRIGHTEST DIADEM IN THE BRITISH CROWN.”
THE BRITISH ISRAELITES WARN THAT “IT IS OF VITAL IMPORTANCE THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS SHOULD AWAKEN TO THE FACT OF THEIR IDENTITY WITH THE ISRAEL PEOPLE AS DISTINCT FROM THE JEWS. TOGETHER WITH THE ‘GREAT PEOPLE’ OF THE UNITED STATES, THEY ARE THE SERVANT RACE CHOSEN TO MINISTER TO ALL THE RACES OF MANKIND.”
ADAPTING THE BIBLE TO MODERN-DAY NATIONAL GROUPINGS, THE BRITISH ISRAELITES SEE ENGLAND AS EPHRAIM, THE UNITED STATES AS MENASSEH, THE BRITISH DOMINIONS AS “THE YOUNG LIONS,” SOVIET RUSSIA AS GOG, ETC.
THE ONLY CLAIM OF THE JEWS TO PALESTINE, THEY DECLARE IS THAT THE JEWS ARE A REMNANT OF JUDAH AND WILL ONLY HAVE A CLAIM TO A NATIONAL HERITAGE IN PALESTINE WHEN THEY UNITE WITH THE REAL PEOPLE OF ISRAEL – THE BRITISH.
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