The Rothschild’s Hostile Take-over of Palestine
This is not another Rothschild conspiracy. This mini-documentary is a glance into the complex geo-political tensions that center around the foundation of one of the most controversial countries in the world and the one man who financed the beginning of a methodological invasion of a desertic land far, far away… A land that is now at war!
In this video, we are going to take you back in time. We are going back to before there was a distinction between Israel and Palestine. We are going before the major world wars and the Nazi Holocaust hell. The idea of a promised land for the Jewish people was just a dream, and had been so for literal millennia. This was until a series of political factors, and one particular family, started to build its foundations using a technique established in business as a “hostile take-over”.
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All About Oil
Let’s go back together to the year 1880. The Rothschilds were already a colossal global conglomerate, with their fingers in all the lucrative pies the world had to offer. They weren’t just players but were orchestrators in the world of business, banking and financing politics. The Industrial Revolution was in full swing and the Rothschilds were already raking in more money than they could ever spend. Oil was a relatively new discovery. Most factories still ran on coal, there were no cars and plastic had only been invented 20 years prior but was not yet a major industry. But the world’s governments and the major international players had already begun to grasp the transformative potential of this discovery.
Now the Rothschilds were right there in the mix of course. In 1880, the French banking branch of the Rothschild family acquired a refinery in the micro country of Fiume, which is now part of modern-day Croatia. This quickly became BIG business (!) and they became the primary suppliers of oil to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This is relevant for the next part of our story. The Austro-Hungarian Empire was still at War with the Ottoman Empire! This was not the first adventure in Oil for the Rothschilds. By this point, there were already the largest and most dominant suppliers of Oil of the Russian Empire with huge political influence there.
Now before we plunge head-first into the labyrinth of Rothschild intrigue, we’ve got to pause a moment to set the stage of the geo-political context. Trust me, unraveling this is crucial to understanding the rest of our story and without this context, the Rothschilds would never have been able to found the Jewish dream. If you are looking for more general history on the Rothschild legacy, our other videos have got you covered. This one will focus on one of their most significant family members, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, and the profound legacy of his actions in setting the contemporary political stage.
So, picture this: the Ottoman Empire, an ancient power, was coming towards the end of its 400-year existence, and to put it mildly, it was a pain in the behind to everyone around them, including other Islamic states. This was particularly the case for the fledging state of Saudi Arabia, which had realised that they were sitting on colossal oil reserves, and were entering into negotiations with France and the UK to become their suppliers. One condition for the Saudis to supply cheap oil, undercutting their American competitors thanks to the Suez Canal, included the slow dismantling of the Ottoman Empire.
…A little side note for you all… the Suez Canal was also financed by the Rothschild family only 50 years earlier! But I digress…
This oil deal was a game-changer for Saudi Arabia, providing them with an enormous economic and strategic advantage. Islam is still today a religion with several violently conflicting interpretations of the faith and this was particularly the case between the Saudis and the Ottomans at the time. The Ottomans placed the Sultan as the head of the faith but the Wahhabi Saudi interpretation was far stricter and heavily Quranic. This new wealth allowed the Saudis to rapidly begin propagating their interpretation of the faith.
For France and the UK, the deal was definitely a win-win. Of course, they were able to break free from costly oil deals with the USA and the treacherous Atlantic crossing, but there was also a much longer game at play.
Though the Ottomans kept the Austro-Hungarian Empire busy and uninterested in any Western Expansion, an Islamic empire continued to present a great political threat to the West. Financed by banks already owned by various members of the Rothschild French family branch, these European Politicians quickly began realising that it would be fundamental to ensure a permanent ally in the region to stop any future Islamic empire from returning – this opened the door to the Zionist dream.
Operation Rothschild – Zionism
In the grand tapestry of history, the year 1880 holds another significant historical concurrence. At that time, the Jewish population found its largest clusters in Russia and Germany, with their diaspora stretching over 2000 years since fleeing the Roman Empire. But in Russia, a storm was brewing. Anti-Semitism was at an all-time high, culminating in the harrowing Pogroms – violent riots that sent the Jewish community fleeing for safety.
Enter our enigmatic figure, 35-year-old French Baron Edmond de Rothschild, a man already worth an astonishing estimated $2 billion dollars in 1880. This would be around a staggering $60 billion dollars today, making him perhaps the wealthiest single Rothschild in the history of the family. Edmond saw an opportunity to bring his dream of Zionism to life.
Now, Zionism, at its core, is the belief in a Jewish homeland, a promised land rooted in the ancient texts of the Torah. But politically, it was a much more complex puzzle. A location needed to be established, and there wasn’t exactly land going spare. You see, even though there were already Jewish communities living peacefully in Palestine as well as various other places, the larger geopolitical context was quite different than in the Torah. The region was now an Islamic state under Ottoman rule, and the world had moved on significantly in the 2000 years since the Roman Empire.
Due to the sudden surge of Jew-targeted conflict in Russia, the Rothschilds were approached by the Nobel family to help finance a new railway stretching from Baku to the Red Sea. This railway played a pivotal role in aiding Russian Jews to flee the horrors of the Pogroms, allowing them to find refuge within the relative safety of the Ottoman Empire.
The Ottomans were receptive, but they harbored concerns. They were well aware of Zionist ambitions, and they knew that not all Palestinian Arab Jews were politically aligned with this ideology. But their major worry was the potential incursion onto Muslim land. As a response, they enacted a law that restricted Jewish settlement in Palestine to a mere 30 days, after which they could settle elsewhere within the Empire.
This would not do for Baron de Rothschild!
He devised a clever strategy, setting up a network of ‘shell’ companies, which he used to begin acquiring land in Palestine. Thanks to an Ottoman law permitting foreign nationals, except Ashkenazi Jews, to purchase land in Palestine, he used his personal treasury known as Hazine-i-Hassa, to acquire nearly 20% of the territory by 1914. The Ottomans found themselves utterly befuddled by this relentless strategy.
On the other side of the Empire, The Rothschild family was supplying resources in great numbers to the Austro-Hungarian Empire who were eating away at the military defences of the Ottomans, distracting them from the invasion within.
Intriguing, isn’t it? The next steps become crucial in the context of the current geo-political climate! Let’s delve deeper into the actual mechanisms of the Rothschilds’ pivotal role in shaping the history of the Middle East and the Zionist dream. This is a tale that weaves together wealth, ambition, and geopolitics in a way that continues to stir conversations and controversies to this very day.
The Palestine Jewish Colonisation Association (PICA)
Owning land was of course not the goal for the Edmond de Rothschild and the rest of the family – they weren’t just after a slice of the global pie and were already huge landowners worldwide. What is controversial is that the technique for creating this invasion was more akin hostile corporate takeover than direct warfare. Instead of stocks, it was land they were rapidly acquiring.
Despite the illegality of the situation under Ottoman law, they were quickly moving refugee Jewish families into the land that they had purchased. In 1899 Edmond the Rothschild created an investment fund called the Palestine Jewish Colonisation Association. The name alone speaks volumes, especially given today’s heated political climate. Whether you’re waving the pro-Zionist flag or you are against the occupation of Palestine, the name leaves little room for ambiguity. This was colonization in a hurry – a bold, even hostile, move.
Indeed, the PICA was a branch of a larger organisation called the Jewish Colonisation Association based in America and founded by the Hirsch family, another incredibly influential and wealthy Jewish family. The JCA goal was the Zionist dream and they were investigating a wide variety of options for the promised land – Palestine was not the only one! These included Argentina, the USA, Turkey, and Canada where various colonies were created. However, none of these other countries had any political advantages for France and the UK compared to a colony in Palestine. France and the UK, along with neighbours Saudi Arabia, quickly began supplying weaponry and resources to the PICA for their accelerated settlement.
Now, the story doesn’t stop there. The Rothschilds weren’t just writing checks and buying land; they were investing in a vision. They poured resources into agriculture, infrastructure, schools, healthcare – you name it! They were all in for the Jewish settlers, creating the building blocks for what we know today as Israel.
Current Political Climate
Let’s jump forward to today and the war happening between Hamas and Israel around the Gaza Strip. Though not directly about the Rothschilds, we need to talk about it briefly as it plays into their hands. Gaza is now a tiny strip of land, a mere 41km across and 6 to 12 km wide strip of land enclosed on 4 sides by 3m high walls, barbed wire, and a complex defense system in which over 2 million people live. By proportion, Gaza is 1% of the land area of Israel but has a population equal to 20% of Israel. Quite the turning of the table and under full military occupation.
It is hard to not express any political or ethical opinion about Gaza and Israel in the context of the current emotional scenes on both sides of the wall from the difficult living conditions imposed by Israel, regularly called out by the United Nations and the World Health Organisation as in-humane, to the horrors of the Hamas militant group. So let’s instead focus on why the conflict is happening.
Israel is not universally recognised as a country. Most Islamic states in the Middle East do not accept Israel as a State. The fall of the Ottoman Empire put the entire region into the hands of the British Empire where a British Mandate in 1948 granted independence to the area establishing it as the State of Israel. This immediately created an international war as these neighbouring countries did not accept the sovereignty, of Israel. The reaction is that Arab Palestinians were forced to flee and were funneled into an area of ceasefire called the Green Line. The UN estimates that more than 700,000 Palestinians were forcefully expelled or fled from Israeli armed forces during the conflict.
With the political tensions between Israel and the Islamic world continuing to boil over with several conflicts ongoing, extremist right-wing propaganda continues to persist on both sides of the conflict, fuelling the hatred, warfare, and the regular explosion and over-reactions of Hamas and the Israeli military. Hamas, a terrorist or militant organisation, rose to power in Gaza because the people are desperate, and in desperation seek extremism. Meanwhile, the political power of Israel grows amongst its allies – for let’s not forget how conveniently it is placed for the West to have military and commercial bases near the Middle East, breaking up the Islamic coast at the mouth of the Suez Canal. This is particularly good for our protagonist’s family. The Rothschilds always win.
How the Rothschilds profit from this War
To put it bluntly, war is profitable but banking is better!
The Rothschilds continue to be one of the primary financiers of arms production worldwide with only specific exclusion policies around controversial weaponry. It’s hard to trace as they fund everyone and have been funding all wars since the Napoleonic times so it lends that today, and this war, their investment strategy is no different. The Rothschilds also have a great investment in the Right-Wing political climate of Israel, particularly when it comes to the relationship with Iran. The Rothschilds ultimately are bankers. They have no real interest in war or politics but in money and power. Iran is now considered in Western news and political rhetoric as the new Great Evil of the Middle East. Researchers have pointed out that Iran is one of only 3 countries left in the world whose Central Bank does not have any direct Rothschild Bank loans, along with Cuba and North Korea. Since Israel’s founding in the Middle East, the Rothschild family has had a huge amount of influence over the financial movements in the region and continues to profit from the conflict, ensuring the political pressure remains on Iran and its central bank, as well as defending the Zionist ambitions.
