Love us or hate us ? (part 8)

Submitted by saltysteve on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 17:12

5. Lloyd George

Yes, it's another British political figure, this time the Prime Minister at the time of the First World War. Here was another man convinced by his reading of the Bible as to the destiny of the Jewish people and their rights to the Holy Land.

His inclusion in this list is the willing role he played in the political dramas taking place at the time, particularly concerning the efforts of Chaim Weissman and other Jewish Zionists. It is clear that it was well within his power to block the Balfour Declaration, yet he chose to sponsor it, to his credit.

David Lloyd George was one of the prominent politicians targeted by Chaim Weissman, who also 'nobbled' Winston Churchill and Lord Balfour, creating Zionists of the three of them, and therefore so deserved the highest honour paid to him by becoming the first president of the State of Israel. It was when Lloyd George had taken over the War Office from Lord Kitchener (he of the war poster - your country needs you - fame), that things really got moving. More resources were diverted to the war effort in the Middle East, culminating in the taking of Palestine from the Turks.

Things got even better when Lloyd George took over as Prime Minister from the anti-Semitic Asquith. It just wasn't realised at the time that the man now elected to run the country was a philo-Semite and a fervent Zionist. In fact after a war meeting with prominent financiers, including Lord Rothschild, he was heard to remark 'Only the old Jew made sense', referring to Rothschild.

Weissman and Herbert Samuel, another Jewish politician, cleverly worked on Lloyd George by reminding him of how Palestine was the same size of his own homeland, Wales, and constantly mentioning place names in the Holy Land that they knew would be familiar to him, as they knew he was a Bible-thumper. But I'm sure Lloyd George, not a stupid man, was a willing convert to the cause.

When the First World War was over both Lloyd George and Lord Balfour were determined that if any good was to come out of this pointless war it would be to establish a home for the Jews. Lloyd George even told Weissman at one time that 'Palestine was the one interesting part of the war'.

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