Paris, 1919
Tucker Carlson's Interview of Mike Huckabee woke up the Ghosts of 1919.
Back then, the founding fathers of the state of Israel were deeply concerned about water independence for their nation. They made claims on Southern Lebanon that were not based on biblical claims as much as on the perceived necessities of a modern economy.
Indeed, Aaron Aaronson, a leading agronomist and early Zionist, leader may have been the first to formulate boundary requirements based specifically on future water needs.
He considered that including the Hermon within the boundaries of Palestine was a strategic necessity, because of its contribution to the headwaters of the Jordan. He also believed that the Litani would play a role in the water balance of the future state of Israel.
In those pre-desalination days, it was viewed as “essential for the necessary economic foundation of the country” by the World Zionist Organization.
The founding fathers of Israel considered that the Litani “is of vital importance to northern Palestine both as a supply of water and of power. Unfortunately its springs lie in [Mount] Lebanon. Some kind of international agreement is essential in order that the Litani may be fully utilized for the development of North Palestine and [Mount] Lebanon” (Aaronson, “The Boundaries of Palestine", January 27, 19l9, cited in Wolf, 1996).
David Ben-Gurion meeting with Albert Einstein at Princeton University, in 1951. Ben Gurion had offered Einstein the presidency of Israel, but felt he “had to offer the post to him because it’s impossible not to. But if he accepts, we are in trouble”. Einstein, while supportive in the hope “of correcting a flagrant wrong”. was eager to refuse and claimed he lacked “both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people”
Israeli leader Ben Gurion, one of the early Zionist leaders, had just returned to Palestine after his expulsion by the Ottomans. He considered that the future state be delimited "to the north, the Litani river, to the northeast, the Wadi-Owja, twenty miles south of Damascus; the southern border will be mobile and pushed into Sinai at least up to Wadi-Al-Arish; and to the east, the Syrian Desert, including the furthest edge of Trans-Jordan" .
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This claim was later formalized by Chaim Weizmann and Nahum Sokolow. Acting on behalf of “Zionist Organization” and the “Jewish Population of Palestine”
they presented the “Zionist Organization Statement on Palestine”, at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference following the Great War, and defined the Israeli demand for “The boundaries of Palestine
“Starting on the North at a point on the Mediterranean Sea in the vicinity south of Sidon [Saida], and following the watersheds of the foothills of [Mount] Lebanon as far as Jisr El-Karaon [The location of the present day Qaraoun dam] thence to El-Bire, following the dividing line between the two basins of the Wadi El-Korn and the Wadi Et-Teim, thence in a southerly direction following the dividing line between the Eastern and Western slopes of the Hermon, to the vicinity west of Beit Jenn, then eastward following the northern watersheds of the Nahr Mughaniye close to and west of the Hedjaz Railway. In the east, a line close to and west of the Hedjaz Railway terminating in the Gulf of Akaba. In the south, a frontier to be agreed upon with the Egyptian Government. In the west, the Mediterranean Sea."
…as to the rest of us, who have been here since Biblical times, most of us as related to Biblical Patriarchs as our Hebrew cousin? Huckabee has the answer
Summary of Huckabee’s theological nonsense at Tucker’s Interview. He must have read it in the Bible, in the original english.