Chapter 937: The Collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the Jews' Dream of Restoration
On 1 September 1947, the Liberty Financial Centre, a super-skyscraper in the heart of Limerick, was inaugurated. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info This huge reinforced concrete building is even 20 meters taller than the Empire State Building in New York, USA, reaching a staggering 401 meters. It has a total of 110 floors, and standing on the ground and looking at the rooftop, it gives a sensory stimulus that goes straight into the sky.
As the name suggests, the building is dominated by financial institutions, with the New UK Central Bank holding a 51% stake and five banks, four insurance institutions and one hotel sharing the remaining 49%, making the Ulster Grand Hotel, which is the world's tallest hotel on the 88th to 110th floors, booked months before it even officially opened......
Since it is in the heart of the new United Kingdom, and it is a construction project that has attracted worldwide attention, it is only natural that His Majesty the great Joachim I will come to cut the ribbon. Over the years, the Irish have created one miracle after another under his leadership, and the Free Financial Centre is just the icing on the cake. After calmly participating in the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Natsuki took the queens and princesses to the high-speed elevator to the royal suite on the 108th floor to experience the different feeling of living in the clouds.
At lunch, the majority shareholders of the Free Financial Center were invited to dine at the same table with the royal family, and while enjoying a fine meal, the entrepreneurs lost no time in paying homage to the rulers of the kingdom and striving for the approval and support of their business or political ambitions. Among them, Lord Robert Rothschild, one of the main members of the famous Rothschild family and president of the Irish branch of Rothschild Bank, although he did not speak much, was the most conspicuous one. It is worth mentioning that after the collapse of the British Empire, the Rothschild family was awarded a title by the British royal family in the early years also lost its meaning, and the title of Lord Robert Rothschild originated from the fact that the Irish branch of the Rothschild Bank made a very important contribution to the stabilization of the financial situation in Ireland in 1939, and was awarded an honorary non-hereditary title by the Irish royal family, and was widely recognized in Europe.
After lunch, instead of going for a walk as is customary, Natsuki meets Lord Robert Rothschild and the special guests he brought with him in the salon of his suite. At the head of this group of guests was Haim Weizman, the president of the World Zionist Organization, the de facto leader of the Zionist Organization, who also had the status of a famous chemist. His greatest achievement in the field of chemistry is to discover the method of obtaining a large number of chemical products through bacterial fermentation, so he is considered the father of modern industrial fermentation technology - during his service in the British Royal Navy laboratory, he used the bacterium ** butanobacterium to produce ****, and used **** to make smokeless explosives, which made a very great contribution to the British defense and military, and relied on this to actively win the support of the British government and military for Zionism. But in this time and space, the Confederates won the First World War, so there was no Balfour Declaration, no United Nations resolutions establishing a Jewish state and internationalizing Jerusalem, and certainly no Nazi Germany's frenzied persecution of the Jews.
The Jews wanted to return to their ancient homeland of Palestine to rebuild the Jewish state, but Palestine and the Middle East remained in the hands of the Ottoman Empire, and although the Arab League expelled the Ottoman Empire from the Middle East in 1935 through unremitting armed struggle, the Arabs were equally unwilling to accept the return of the Jews. The Jews hoped that the support of the Western powers and the balance between Turkey and the Arabs would make Palestine an international buffer zone, but from 1935 onwards, Turkey was mired in a protracted civil war, and it was not until 1944 that the Armed Forces of the Republic of Turkey, under the leadership of the People's Party, won a crucial victory in the Battle of Ankara, followed by the recovering of large swathes of Ottoman rule. In the spring of 1945, the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire announced his abdication and went into exile, and Turkey regained its unification and gradually straightened out its diplomatic relations with neighboring countries, surveying and demarcating its borders. As the Jews expected, the Republic of Turkey pragmatically renounced its Ottoman territorial sovereignty over Syria, Palestine, Persia, and the Arabian Peninsula and shrank its political territory to the peninsula of Asia Minor, while Palestine became the object of contention between Syria and the Arab kingdoms. Despite the volatile situation in Palestine, Jews have continued to move to their homeland. In 1946 alone, more than 50,000 Jews moved to Palestine, and in the first half of 1947, at least 30,000 more Jews came to Palestine and settled in Jerusalem and the surrounding areas, bringing the number of Jews in the entire Palestine to 500,000, although this is only 3.4% of the total number of Jews in existence, but it undoubtedly evokes the buried dream of restoration among Jews all over the world......
After Lord Rothschild introduced the guests one by one, Natsuki's gaze couldn't help but linger on Haim Weizman's partner for a little longer. The man's surname was Milch, his name was Erhard, and he was a retired German general and vice president of the World Zionist Organization. In fact, in the Second German Reich, which won two world wars and was on its way to the pinnacle of history, Milch did not get the opportunity to play in the Luftwaffe as he did in the old time, because no one would appreciate him, promote him, or even hide his Jewish roots for him like Goering. Since joining the army in 1910, Milch has served in the German Army, and has been on the front line in both wars, and has been affirmed by his superiors in training, organization and combat, but he has always been promoted slowly, until he retired from active service in 1942 with the rank of major general, when he had just turned 50 years old, which is the most energetic and creative age of an officer!
The deviation of the trajectory of his life is certainly embarrassing, but who can say that Milch's current life is not satisfactory? At least he didn't have to disguise himself as an "Aryan", but could fight openly for the Jewish dream of reunification, and perhaps it wouldn't be long before he got an excellent stage to show off his military talents......
A prominent Jewish financier came with a group of ambitious Zionists to present their ideals and plans to the King of the new United Kingdom, naturally hoping for the support of the man of power. Although the Jewish consortium represented by the Rothschilds is quite influential in the political and economic circles of Germany, the Hohenzollern royal family relies on the traditional Junker landlord class and the emerging military aristocracy to maintain the rule, and the real upper class still regards the Jews as speculators, nouveau riche, vampires, liars, and thieves. The compatriots of France, Austria-Hungary and other countries are just as bad.
The exclusion and humiliation of the Jews in various European countries had a lot to do with greed, profit-seeking ways of making money, and huge wealth, but in the final analysis, it was the result of the fact that the Jews had always had their own isolated and exclusive cultural system and values - they were different from Christendom in all aspects of social life, and this difference often led them to be regarded as "non-self", and thus developed a deep prejudice. For example, at the end of the 19th century, the world was experiencing a wave of revolution, and many people thought that the revolution was related to the Jews, and in 1881, the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, the murderer had a Jew in his hands, and Tsarist Russia took the opportunity to expel the Jews, which then expanded to anti-Jewish events throughout Eastern Europe.
Moreover, after the failure of the uprising in 135 AD, the Jews were expelled from Jerusalem and even the whole of Palestine, and lived in exile all over the world, never to establish their own state......
In Ireland, where class consciousness and beliefs are relatively weak, Jews are doing much better. According to the censuses of Ireland and Wales before the establishment of the new United Kingdom, as of the summer of 1946, there were 229441 Jews living on the island of Ireland, about 2.16 per cent of the total population of the region, while there were 13,453 Jews living in Wales, about 0.9 per cent of the total population of the region, and the current ratio of the total number of Jews to the total population of the world is about 0.65 per cent, that is, the density of Jews in Ireland is more than three times the global average.
In addition to the long-term stable political and social situation and thriving economic development situation here, a big reason why the island of Ireland has become a more popular place for Jews to settle down, is that Ireland's unique tolerance and simplicity of the people are simple, and the waves of expatriate return in the twenties and thirties have formed a diversified economic and cultural atmosphere in Ireland, making the Kingdom of Ireland a vibrant place suitable for foreign gold diggers to survive and foothold, and Ireland in the 19th century ****** As many as two million Irish people have to wander away from their homeland like the Jews, and when they are able to return to their homeland and live happily ever after, it is natural to show extra sympathy for the ill-fated Jews.
Natsuki has always been tolerant of the Jews in the kingdom, his position affected the Irish officials and even the common people, and the arrival of the Jews also played a certain positive role in the economic development of Ireland, their capital promoted the Irish industry, commerce and finance, their diligence and intelligence played a role in the social atmosphere more beneficial than disadvantageous, and in the two economic crises that broke out in the thirties, Ireland's economy and trade were greatly affected, Perhaps because of the friendly relations with the Irish government and people over the years, or perhaps because of a prescient sense of the potential recovery momentum of the Irish economy, the Jews living in Ireland not only did not take advantage of the opportunity to fall into the trap, but the banking and financial institutions controlled by the Jewish consortium also actively assisted the Irish government in stabilizing the economic and social order during the economic crisis - several Jewish bankers, including Robert Rothschild, were awarded honorary titles by the Irish royal family during that period.
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