…It was the remarkable Christian Zionist Orde Charles Wingate who said, more or less, the Jews’ greatest contribution to mankind was the idea of God, meaning the God of the Bible. You know, when Captain Wingate, a British intelligence officer landed here in 1936 during the Arab Revolt, he began touring the country on its few roads to get to know it and in the passenger seat of his little car lay a pistol and a Bible. When he landed he already knew as much Biblical geography as any of the Zionists. Like those two other British Christian Zionists Prime Minister Lloyd George and Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour. One of them, I forget which, said he knew the geography of the Holy Land better than the map of England… |