"Austrian" or "Australian," What's the Difference? Plenty If You Were a Soldier Fighting in Palestine in WWI

Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta)

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"Austrian" or "Australian," What's the Difference? Plenty If You Were a Soldier Fighting in Palestine in WWI Posted: 27 Mar 2014  Jewish soldiers in the Australian (sic) Battalion standing next to the Western Wall, 1916. (Harvard  Library/Central Zionist Archives)  The soldiers were actually from Austria. The photographer, Ya'akov Ben-Dov, moved to Palestine  in 1907 from Kiev. He was drafted into the Ottoman army during World War I and served as a photographer in Jerusalem World War I was not only waged in Europe, but across the Middle East as well. The armies of Turkey, Germany and Austria fought the British Empire's armies from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and India.  The Austrian soldiers in the picture above marched into Jerusalem in 1916. [Another copy of this Kotel photo -- damaged -- appears elsewhere in the Harvard Library collection with the correct caption of "Austrian" soldiers.] The Australians arrived in Palestine with General Allenby's troops in 1917, and were famous for their daring cavalry charge that captured Be'er Sheva before German and Turkish troops could blow up the wells of the oasis. Austrians marching into Jerusalem, 1916 (Library of Congress, American Colony Collection) Australian Light Horsemen in Jerusalem (1918)  in a badly damaged Library of Congress photo

Reality Check

I thought I'd do a little "reality check" myself when I was in Israel Nov. 3-11, 2013. Here is what I found. What do you think?  

Steve Martin 

Founder 

Love For His People, Inc.

(P.S. I took these photos myself with my little Fuji camera. Just the way it is.) 

"West Bank"

- my guess is about 10 feet.

(Photo of the Jordan River, near Jericho, Israel. 

Nov. 10, 2013)

"Settlements"

- must be the Bedouins who live outside Jerusalem.

Arab nomads I believe who won't move.

"Two States Solution"

- Jews and Moslems living together

as Israelis. Peacefully.

There is reality.

There is the truth.

If people would 

open their eyes 

and see it. 

For instance, what world-wide politicians and "peace makers" have continually called "settlements" are actually beautiful homes of people. So just move them out???!!! 

(And guess what? They have bought them rightfully.)

That is like telling the people of Charlotte, North Carolina, where I live, that you "must leave and give up everything YOU have worked for and built", to someone who doesn't own it, and will destroy it once you are gone. 

Want a good example? The Gaza Strip was given as a peace gesture, demanded by the PLO, in order to move the "Peace Process" forward. And now what? Rockets continually fired at innocent Jewish civilians a few miles away, after the new "residents" in the Gaza Strip destroyed the homes and businesses of the previous rightful owners.

Let's get real here. Divide the Land of Israel, and as per the Living God of Israel, you will face His reality. Check out the Roman Empire, the British Empire, the Nazi Regime, the Soviet Union...all who opposed the people the Lord has chosen to live in His land are the ones who no longer live.

Other nations will be wise if they take heed to the historical facts.

Sincerely,

Steve Martin

P.S. Share if you too stand for Israel.

Love For His People, Inc.

P.O. Box 414

Pineville, NC 28134