[Steve]

The Americans entered the war in 1917. The Balfour Declaration came on November 6th of that year, when Arthur (Lord) Balfour (Comm 300), the British Foreign Secretary and member of the Round Table’s inner elite, officially recognised Palestine as a homeland for Jewish people. We need to look at this on many levels again. The propagandists may well have believed it was a ‘master stroke’ to bring America into the war, but what they didn’t know was that they were being manipulated to manipulate others. America was coming into the war anyway. A Jewish homeland in Palestine had been a long-time Elite strategy and the guise of bringing America into the war was used to encourage British politicians to accept it. The Balfour Declaration was a terrible blow to the Arabs who had, under the leadership and promises of the Englishman, T.E. Lawrence (‘ Lawrence of Arabia’), fought on Britain’s behalf against the Turks and they played a crucial role in winning the war.

The Arabs were promised full post-war sovereignty and independence for their support and this was confirmed in official correspondence. Lawrence, a close friend of Winston Churchill (Comm 300), knew full well that he was lying to the Arabs he was leading. Some years later Lawrence said: “I risked the fraud on my conviction that Arab help was necessary to our cheap and speedy victory in the East, and that better we win and break our word, than lose… The Arab inspiration was our main tool for winning the Eastern War. So I assured them that England kept her word in letter and in spirit. In this comfort they performed their fine things; but, of course, instead of being proud of what we did together, I was continually bitter and ashamed.”