Chapter 021: The Jews' Calculations (2)
David Ben-Gurion, who had been listening to everyone's words, said at this time: "The international situation is complicated today, and no one knows which side will win the war. β
In 1886, David Ben-Gurion was born in a wealthy Jewish family in Plansk, Poland, and later became the prime minister and defense minister of Israel, in an atmosphere with a strong Zionism, he began to study the Bible and Hebrew at an early age, at the age of 14, he organized the children around him to speak Hebrew, and at the age of 17, he joined the Zionist party Zion Workers' Party and became a Zionist,
At the age of 20, David Ben-Gurion came to Palestine, then a dependency of the Ottoman Turkish Empire,,, "land of Israel" in his mind, and was determined to realize the Zionist ideal by means of settlement.
He later recalled: "I had a fever and starvation for more time than I worked, and work, malaria and hunger were all new and interesting to me, after all, that's why I came to Israel." Even under these conditions, David did not stop his lifelong hobby: reading, once, he drove the ploughing ox to read while walking, and when he looked up after reading, he found that the ox had already gone elsewhere to graze.
In 1910, David Ben-Gurion was transferred to Jerusalem by the Zion Workers' Party to serve as editor of the newly founded party journal Unity, and it was only when the second issue of the magazine published that he mustered up the courage to sign his article with a new Hebrew name,,, Ben-Gurion, and at the age of 24, Ben-Gurion began his political career.
At this time, David Ben-Gurion had made it clear that there was only one way for the Jews to establish a state: not empty talk, but deeds, he firmly believed that only Jews in Palestine could decide their own path, and he once hoped to obtain the citizenship of the Ottoman Turkish Empire and fight for the rights and interests of Jews within the empire, for which he learned Turkish and went to the capital of the empire to study law, in order to make himself more like an Ottoman citizen, he also wore a Turkish-style cylinder hat and grew a Turkish-style beard,
After the outbreak of World War I, the Ottoman Empire was worried that the Zionists would take the opportunity to make trouble, and even reinstate the country and defect to the Entente, David was expelled from the country in 1915, and soon he went to New York, USA, and it was at this time that he became acquainted with many Jews in the United States and the Zionists here, these people played a decisive role in the establishment of the State of Israel after World War II and the financial problems in the middle, after the end of World War II, except for the Jews in the Americas, there was almost no loss, The possession of the Jews on the European continent was almost wiped out,
In 1917, Britain issued the Balfour Declaration, expressing support for Zionism and the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine, and the British army immediately began to organize the Jewish Legion, in 1918, David Ben-Gurion joined the Legion and followed the British army back to Palestine, but before the Legion entered the war, the Ottoman army had been defeated, David Ben-Gurion retired from the Jewish Legion, engaged in the work of the United Palestinian Jewish Workers, and in the summer of 1921, he was elected secretary of the General Union of Jewish Workers, and worked in this position for 14 years,
In addition to intense political activities, he neither made friends nor paid attention to his family, but seized all the time to study, and his physical condition was extremely poor due to years of hard work, and he began to rest before the age of 40, and his hair was gray in his early 40s, and his hair was as unkempt as Einstein's, and excessive excitement and irritability would make him have a high fever.
In the world Zionist movement, Ben-Gurion advocated the labor movement was not the mainstream, but with his persistence and firmness, he began to change the world Zionist movement with his own ideas, and in 1933, at the 18th Zionist Congress held in Prague, Ben-Gurion was elected as a member of the Executive Committee, which was regarded as a turning point in the history of the Zionist movement.
In 1935, Ben-Gurion was elected Chairman of the Zionist Executive Committee and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Jewish ChargΓ© d'Affaires, becoming the two giants of the Zionist movement in the world, along with Haim Weizman, who later became Israel's first president.
The Utopian fantasy of the return of Jews to Palestine by the Zionists, who had once considered the return of Jews to Palestine as "a landless people returning to a land without a nation", had been abandoned by Ben-Gurion, who had risen step by step from the grassroots level in a pragmatic manner, and he pointed out that "there is a real conflict in Palestine, a political conflict between us and the Arabs, and we all want to be in the majority", so he focused his efforts on Jewish immigration to Palestine, He wants to make the Jews the majority in Palestine,
In 1937, in order to solve the Palestinian question, Britain first put forward the idea of partition, that is, the establishment of an Arab state and a Jewish state in Palestine, Ben-Gurion, with his political sense, captured the great meaning of the word "state", realized that this was a golden opportunity, he immediately expressed his support for the idea of partition, Ben-Gurion pointed out: "Zionism does not walk on a strong rope, but on a strand of hair." β
But two years later, the British government issued a white paper, reducing the quota for Jews to move to Palestine, prohibiting Jews from buying Palestinian land, in the face of the change in British position, Ben-Gurion decided to develop the Jewish underground armed forces, after the outbreak of World War II, in the face of Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews and Britain's suppression of Zionism, David Ben-Gurion weighed the pros and cons and put forward the famous policy throughout World War II: "We will help Britain at war as if there were no white paper; We will oppose the white paper as if there was no war. β
In the summer of 1940, Ben-Gurion spent time in London, and was strongly shocked by the perseverance and courage of the British under the indiscriminate bombardment of Nazi Germany, and at the same time, he was also soberly aware that World War II would destroy the old order and establish a new one, and at the end of the war, the leadership of the Western world would shift from Britain to the United States, and the Jews would need to turn America into their new patron.
On November 12, 1941, Ben-Gurion came to New York, where he received broad support from the Jewish community in the United States, and in May 1942, the Jewish Conference at the Biltmore Hotel in New York accepted his proposal and adopted an eight-point program declaring that "Palestine will be incorporated into the new democratic world as a Jewish state".
David Ben-Gurion experienced two world wars, although he has always followed the British, but the British have repeatedly played the Jews in a mess, betraying the interests of the Jews again and again, David Ben-Gurion is only angry like all Jews, or with the help of the Rothschilds' hands to clean up the British with a small economic means, in addition to this, he has no way to take the British, but this has further stimulated his belief that he wants to establish a Jewish state, only with his own country, so that the Jews will not be displaced, ostracized and even slaughtered by all nations and ethnic groups around the world.
David Ben-Gurion was more than willing to choose to trust the British and Americans, who were also white...... But in fact, the most hurtful Jews are these Europeans and Americans who are also Caucasians, needless to say the bloody Holocaust in Germany, but in the past two thousand years, the Jews in European countries have slaughtered fewer Jews, Jews are diligent and can make money, so the European nobles look for Jews as soon as they lack money, this is not simply borrowing and not repaying, but directly listing the crimes of slaughtering Jews and embezzling Jewish property,
Before choosing to believe not because they want to believe in Britain and the United States, these Europeans but there is no way to do it, now China, a country that has never been anti-Semitic, has suddenly become stronger, and there is a special affection for Jews, but some people say that the Chinese are interested in the technology of European Jews, in David's view, at least the actions of the Chinese have saved hundreds of thousands of Jews, Britain and the United States have not done this,
Of course, he is more interested in the opportunity, a good country is willing to help the Jews build a state, and this country is now one-on-one almost no country can win, if the Jews can really get the support of such a country, the establishment of the country is just around the corner,
"What do you mean?" Haim Weizman, the first president of Israel,
"I don't think we can put our hopes in the hands of the British or the Americans, how many times have they deceived us over the years, I need authorization, I'm going to go to China, maybe that's our hope."
Haim Weizman thought about it and nodded, he also thought so, there is no way that the territory controlled by China should be the first in the world now, and the territory directly controlled by the British is not much, at least not as many as the Chinese,
The huge population is enough to scare any opponent to death, and the performance of the squadron on the battlefield in the past two years is simply amazing.
A quarter of the world's population, what a terrible number of people, is controlled by a country, even if this country cannot conquer the whole world, there is no problem in controlling half of the world, let alone controlling an Asian continent, and the territory that the Jews yearn for is on the Asian continent, no matter how good relations with the Chinese side are inevitable, even if the country is established now, the Jews always have money, if the Chinese do not look at the Jews, they can destroy the Jews at any time, it is easier than pinching an ant to death,
"What authorization do you need?"
David Ben-Gurion smiled, "Discretion, discretion to reach any agreement with the Chinese." β
The crowd gasped, this is very difficult for them, the Chinese side, no, to be exact, the Qin side let out the words, they need a lot of money, and the amount will not be small, no matter how little money a country of that size wants, it is a huge amount of money for them,
It is true that the Jews have money, but it is all private, they have no right to mobilize, the richest is the Rothschilds, it is said that there were at least 30 trillion US assets before the war, but that is just a legend,