| 1859 | Construction of Suez Canal begins. |
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| 1859 | World's first oil well drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania. |
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| 1869 | Suez Canal completed |
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| 1870 | John D. Rockefeller forms Standard Oil |
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| 1873 | Baku oil region opened for development |
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| 1873 | Nobels enter Russian oil business. |
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| 70's | "While Nobel Brothers dominated distribution of oil within the Russian Empire, beyond those borders Russian oil was hardly a factor. Geography locked the oil into the empire. For example, to reach a Baltic port meant '2,000 miles, intermittent water and rail transportation through western Russia.' To make matters worse, severe winter weather precluded the shipment of kerosene on the Caspian between October and March, with the result that many refiners simply shut down for half the year. Even parts of the empire were inaccessible; in the city of Tiflis, it was cheaper to import kerosene from America, 8,000 miles away, than from Baku, 341 miles to the west."(Yergin'sThe Prizep.60) |
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| 1875 | England acquires Suez Canal with Rothschild loan |
| | Prime Minister Benjamin D'Israeli with Queen Victoria (D'Israeli was born a Jew but was baptized as a child by his father Isaac who was a well-known Cabalistic Frankist (a student of the Sabbatean Messiah Jacob Frank, alias Yakov Frankovich, actually Leibowicz). Isaac gave as a reason for baptism that Judaism "cuts off the Jews from the great family of mankind" (Encyclopaedia Britannica). And his son Disraeli was a "Judahite" crypto-Jew.) |
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| 1877 | A prayer service for Jewish soldiers during the Russian-Turkish War in 1877. The Russian-Turk War was instigated to incorporate the port of Batum into Russia where the Rothschilds had strong banking connections.It was from Batum that the Rothschilds would soon ship their Russian oil to the Far East markets. |
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| 1877 | Port of Batum incorporated into Russia |
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| 1881 | Alphonse de Rothschild meets with Horace De Gunzberg, Director of The Russian Imperial Bank in St. Petersburg |
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| | Horace De Gunzberg |
| 1881 | Egyptian resentment begins to grow against the British-French dominion over the Suez Canal. Depicted here is Ahmed Arabi, who would threaten security in the region as he would lead a revolt the following year. Ever since the Suez Canal became a plausible reality, the European Business elite quickly came to realize that the canal would soon become the "juglar" of Europe and would need special protection. European forces could protect the region initially but the future demanded a more permanent solution. The Jews would return to Zion after all. In fact, they would be coerced. The clock was ticking. A military Jewish colony would need to be established and made battle-ready before the region reverted back to the Eygptians. It was a bold plan. But how to get the Jews, comfortably established in the Pale of Settlement, to Palestine. A veritable wasteland. The answer was simple. Terror. It worked then as well as it works today. It was up to hidden world of the secret services to put things in motion. Have some patsy revolutionary Jews assassinate the Tsar. Get the pogroms going. Emigration is inevitable. Enough Jews will find themselves in Palestine.The arduous work of building the much needed colony would begin. |
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| 1881 | Tsar Alexander II was assassinated on March 13, l881 by a 25-year-old Polish student named Ignacy Grinevitsky, who was Jewish. This prompted a wave of pogroms against the Jews. Which led to massive Jewish emigration in a westerly direction. This outcome benefited those people who were interested in building a Jewish colony in Palestine. Were the Rothschilds and their ilk behind the Tsar's assassination? Well, considering that the Rothschilds could be implicated in similar assassinations of heads of state as explored on this site...it would seem quite plausible that they were behind the group of Polish Jewish students behind Alexander's murder. . The Tsar's son, a puppet of the Rothschild-aligned Russian bankers like de Gunzberg and Ephrussi was installed upon his father's death. Russian pogroms and mistreatment of Russian Jews begin immediately- guaranteeing a flow of Jews to Palestine. These Jews were earmarked to do the initial back-breaking work of preparing the barren land of Palestine. The Jewish colony would be built from the rocks and dust of the neglegted terrain. The emigration west would bring many problems and would continue until it was no longer needed. |
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| | Tsar Alexander II.People could not understand how it was possible that a Tsar who had done so much for Russia should have met his death at the hands of revolutionists. (Of course, what they didn't know was that the assassination was the result of a banker's scheme. Bankers make tsars and, if need be, break tsars (or any political leader or administrator for that matter) |
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| | "Expulsions, deportations, arrests, and beatings became the daily lot of the Jews, not only of their lower class, but even of the middle class and the Jewish intelligentsia. The government of Alexander III waged a campaign of war against its Jewish inhabitants ... The Jews were driven and hounded, and emigration appeared to be the only escape from the terrible tyranny of the Romanovs."-- Berel Wein in Triumph of Survival (p. 173) |
| 1882 | Beginning of the 1st wave (Aliyah) of Jewish immigration into Palestine (The hope of a standing army within reach of Suez begins here) |
| 1882 | Egypt rebels against British-French dominion. Open revolt called "Arabi Uprising" (Anglo-Egyptian War). |
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| 1882 | Alexandria bombarded by British Fleet led by Winston Churchill's future "oil-maniac" mentor, Jacky Fisher commanding the HMS Inflexible. The Arabi Uprising put down at great expense. Alternative had to be found to protecting Suez Canal region. British military puppet-state needed for region. A militant Israel, with a standing army,navy,and intelligence service capable of installing and maintaining networks of crypto-sabbatean/masonic ruler-puppets of the Middle-Eastern countries (and beyond)created as a result of the Ottoman Empire break-up after WWI) must be created out of the dust of nearby Palestine. It would be in place before Suez reverts to the Eygptians. |
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| 1882 | After successfully leading the Bombardment of Alexandria, aboard the HMS Inflexible, British Admiral John "Jackie" Fischer named commander of British Mediterreanian Fleet. (Later known as the "oil maniac". Fisher would become a great advocate of converting the Royal navy from coal to oil fuel. Advisor to Churchill) |
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| 1882 | Standard Oil Trust formed (far from the conflict in the middle east) |
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| 1882 | Alphonse's younger brother, Edmond de Rothschild visits Zichron Yaakov (An oil expert with a vision far beyond the vineyards) |
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| 1883 | Rothschild-financed Baku-Batum railroad completed (Giving Rothschild's Russian oil access to the world market) |
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| 1883 | Alphonse de Rothschild's daughter, Beatrice, marries Maurice Ephrussi, Jewish Russian Banker |
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| 1883 | Baron Edmond de Rothschild begins patronizing early settlements, including Rishon L'Tzion |
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| 1884 | British victory in the Anglo-Sudan War secures Red Sea coastline strategic to the Suez sea route |
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| 1885 | Royal Dutch discovers oil in Sumatra. |
| 1885 | Rothschilds enter Russian Oil business |
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| | Oil expert Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (Edmond's eldest brother) |
| 1886 | Rothschilds form their own oil company-BNITO |
| 1887 | Edmond de Rothschild visits Palestine settlements again. |
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| 1888 | Rothschilds establish oil importing/distribution company |
| 1891 | Rosa Warburg marries Alexander De Gunzberg, Russian banker, son of Horace De Gunzberg (Rothschilds/Warburg agent in Russia) |
| 1891 | Samuel/Rothschild oil contract begins |
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| | Marcus Samuel, Founder of Shell Oil |
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| 1892 | Samuel's Shell Co.'s Murex oil tanker sails through the Suez Canal |
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| 1893 | Samuel's Shell Co.'s adds 10 more tankers to fleet |
| 1893 | Alphonse de Rothschild meets with Standard Oil in NYC to discuss cartel |
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| | John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil (S.O., Esso, Exxon) |
| 1893 | Edmond de Rothschild re-visits his Palestine settlements. |
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| 1896 | Dreyfus Affair:Captain Alfred Dreyfus falsely accused of espionage. A stunned Theodor Hertzl, present at the degradation of Dreyfus, commences his Zionist activities. The Dreyfus scandal was designed by the French Rothschilds and their Masonic connections within the French military to stir up feelings of anti-semitism. Western European Jews, like their pogrom-plagued Eastern European Russian cousins would too begin dreaming of a "Zionist" haven. |
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| | The Degradation Ceremony of Alfred Dreyfus. The mob cried "Death to the Jews!" |
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| | Henry Ford sitting in the first car he built in 1896. The automobile created a new market for oil.Ford supported Hitler because the future of the world's automobile industry would depend on an uninterupted flow of oil in the Middle-East as safe-guarded by a militant Israel. Hitler would insure the safety of Israel from a potentially fatal threat- continous waves of penniless immigrants threatening Israel's stability. Israel is the keystone of stability in the oil-rich Middle-East. Ford was aware of that. |
| 1897 | The First Cup of Wine Produced at the Rothschild Settlement, Rishon Le-Zion |
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| 1899 | Edmond de Rothschild visits Palestine settlements again. |
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| 1900 | End of Rothschild/Samuels contract |
| 1901 | A "capitalist of the highest order," English financier William Knox D'Arcy acquired the huge Persian concession in 1901. |
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| 1901 | Opening up the Middle East:Oil in Persia |
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| 1903 | End of 1st aliyah |
| 1903 | Wright Brother's first flight |
| 1903 | Kishinev pogrom |
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| 1904 | Beginning of 2nd Aliyah into Palestine.Work for the new immigrants was often backbreaking; many could not endure the extraordinary efforts demanded. David Ben-Gurion once claimed that 90 percent of all Second Aliyah immigrants eventually despaired and left the country. |
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| | Aaron David Gordon (1856-1922)believed labor was the cure for all the ills of the Jewish people. Seen as the symbol of the second Aliya, Gordon's words inspired the ragged, shabby, malaria-weakened pioneers of the second wave of Eastern European immigrants. |
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| | Workers breakfast at Migdal. |
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| | Draining the swamps at Ein Harod: There was a lot of malaria |
| 1905 | Within but a single week in October 1905, more than 50 pogroms took place in Czarist Russia. With a 90 percent turnover many immigrant-laborers were needed in Palestine to accomplish the initial work needed to be done. |
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| | Victims of the Bialystok Pogrom in October 1905 |
| 1907 | Shell and Royal Dutch combined under Henri Deterding who coincidentally would support Adolph Hitler. The Rothschilds were the major stockholder of Royal Dutch Shell. |
| 1907 | First drive-in gasoline station opens in St. Louis. |
| 1908 | Oil discovered in Persia |
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| | After five years of drudgery and disappointment, the engineer George Reynolds (left)--"solid English oak"--finally discovered oil in Persia in 1908, opening up oil development in the Middle East. |
| 1909 | The founding of Tel-Aviv in |
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| 1909 | With the discovery of oil in Persia the establishment of the Jewish colony took on even more importance. The Eastern European immigrants could not be depended upon to get the initial work of colonization done. Immigrants from Yemen were brought in. Arriving in 1909, they were to play an important role in the campaign for Jewish labor. The Yemenites were excellent workers, making do with whatever little they had. They restored faith to many who had doubted that the concept of Jewish labor would ultimately triumph. |
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| | Yemenites of the Second Aliyah:The triumph of Jewish labor |
| 1911 | First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Chrchill in 1911 with Admiral Jacky Fisher (right), the "oil maniac" who persuaded Churchill to convert the Royal Navy from coal to oil in preparation for a war with Germany |
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| 1911 | Bankers Natty Rothschild and Max Warburg secrectly conspire to engineer the Agadir Crisis which create tensions between England and Germany and leads to a naval build-up of oil-fueled battleships.The wheels would be set in motion for WWI. |
| 1914 | End of 2nd Aliyah |
| 1914 | Edmond de Rothschild visits Palestine settlements again. |
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| 1914 | World War I and the mechanization of the battlefield.Oil goes to war as the French commandeer Paris taxi cabs to rush additional troops to the war front. |
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| 1917 | Balfour Declaration addressed to Lord Walter Rothschild |
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| | Walter Rothschild |
| 1919 | Versailles Treaty: Ottoman Empire carved up. Oil states created (Iraq,Iran,Kuwait) |
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| | Aftermath of the Kiev pogrom of 1919. Civil war broke out in Russia when the Communists seized control in 1918. In the course of the civil war, 1,326 pogroms took place in the Ukraine alone, in which 70,000 Jews lost their lives. |
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| | Zionist training farm in Berditchev, Ukraine-1919. |
| 1919 | Third Aliyah begins |
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| | A typical image of the Third Aliyah period -White Tents amid bare, rock-strewn hills. "We came to an empty land. There were 600,000 inhabitants here, of whom 540,000 were Arabs and 60,000 were Jews... The land was almost entirely desert and swamps. We did not feel that we were pushing anyone aside."-David Horowitz (Labor Brigade Secretary) |
| | In truth the Jews were not pushing the Arabs aside.But remember that the Jews were brought to Palestine for a specific purpose. A military purpose and they were not going to become a military people if they were allowed to exist in a peaceful environment. This is the key to understanding the middle-east conflict. Arrangements were made, as they were in Czarist Russia, to violently provoke the Jews. This time they would be encouraged and trained in militarism. It began with the classic Problem-Reaction-Solution tool. Without which Jews and Arabs would be living peaceably side-by-side until today. But the region had to be protected and it wouldn't be protected by sissys. So the rabs had to be brain-washed to hate the Jews.(I wish I was making this stuff up.) |
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| 1920 | Herbert Samuel (1870-1963),son of Shell Oil founder Marcus Samuel, named High Commissioner of Palestine. He was the first Jewish ruler in the land of Israel since Herod Agrippa. |
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| | British Prime Minister Lloyd George and Churchill at Whitehall. As Colonial Secretary from 1921-22, Churchill was to navigate Britain's policies regarding Palestine and Zionist affairs. Churchill had determined that Israel should have a population of no more than 3 million people. Hitler would be set in motion once the Jewish population quotas were satisfied. Safeguarding the future of the Jewish colony from future waves of undesirable immigrants. |
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| 1921 | Herbert Samuel welcomes Winston Churchill to Jerusalem. Standing behind Samuel is James "Jimmy" de Rothschild, son of Baron Edmond. Samuel's oil tankers were bringing Rothschild's oil through the Suez Canal to be delivered to Churchill's newly oil-fueled Royal Navy. The creation of Israel was not founded on kindness to the Jews. At least not in the minds of the powerful men behind it. |
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| | The Arab riots of 1921 were formented by the British through Arab leaders to toughen up the Jews in order to prepare them for their future militaristic role in the emerging Middle-East. |
| 1923 | Third Aliyah ends. The Third Aliyah reached a crisis in 1923. There was famine in the villages and thousands of unemployed people in the cities. There were many cases of suicide. The situation appeared desperate and observers spoke confidently of the bankruptcy of Zionism. "There was a tremendous amount of work and little to eat, a water shortage, and terrible sanitary conditions. Do you know what it means to go out at night, with a high fever from malaria, to walk nearly half a kilometer to an outdoor toilet? We had nothing! What was there to eat?"-Golda Meyerson-Meir (Kibbutz Merhavia) |
| 1924 | Edmond de Rothschild, the "Great Benefactor", visits Palestine again. |
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| | The port of Jaffa during the Fourth Aliyah was filled with ships and new immigrants. |
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| | A group of Fourth Aliyah immigrants in 1924. |
| 1924 | Fourth Aliyah (1924-1931) begins. The new immigrants of the Fourth Aliyah had no intention of draining swamps or making the desert bloom. Many were independent entrepeneurs, who, with little capital and no encouragement or guidance, began to develop light industry in Palestine. |
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| | A stocking factory. With no encouragement, light industry began to develop. |
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| 1925 | Edmond de Rothschild visits Palestine for the last time. |
| 1931 | Fourth Aliyah ends |
| 1932 | Fifth Aliyah begins |
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| | Before the Second World War there were five waves of immigration into Palestine. The first two, in the 1880s and in the decade up to 1914, brought settlers from Eastern Europe. These laid the foundations of the labour movement. The third and fourth waves brought many middle-class immigrants. The fifth, from 1929 to 1939, predominantly brought in Jews from Germany. The picture above shows a young immigrant from Germany. |
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| | Children in Neve Ya'akov. The Baron would have his Jewish military colony. |
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| 1934 | Baron Edmond de Rothschild dies in Paris and according to his wishes is buried in Israel. He and his wife were re-interred in 1954 near Zichron Yaakov, Israel. |
| 1940 | Fifth Aliyah ends |
| 1941 | Holocaust begins. Obscure Rothschild relative, Adolph Hitler, eliminates the possibility of unauthorized massive Jewish immigration into Palestine. Insuring the future of the Rothschild's military colony. |
| 1948 | State of Israel "official" |
| 1956 | Israeli military proves itself during Suez Crisis alongside Britain and France |
| 1967 | Six-Day War proves Israel military battle-ready to protect Suez Canal and surrounding "interests".Two years ahead of the 100 year goal set at the 1869 completion of the Suez Canal. |
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