Christian Zionism
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Christian Zionism is a political and religious ideology that, in a Christian context, espouses the return of the Jewish people to the Holy Land. Likewise, it holds that the founding of Israel in 1948
Thomas Brightman, an English Puritan, published Shall They Return to Jerusalem Again? in 1615. This was one of the earliest Restorationist works.
The Puritans, once a "fringe" faction, came to power under Oliver Cromwell during the Commonwealth. Several of his closest advisors held Philo-Semitic millennialist religious views.
The Earl of Shaftesbury, influenced by Evangelical Anglicanism and the views of Edward Bickersteth was one of the first British politicians to seriously endorse a Jewish return to Ottoman Palestine as official policy.
"Memorandum to the Protestant Powers of the North of Europe and America", Colonial Times, Hobart, Australia, 1841
Orde Wingate
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Major-General Orde Charles Wingate, was a senior British Army officer.
Christian Zionism
…belong to the Jews?" In Great Britain By the time of Mandate Palestine, the British struggled to balance sympathies for Jews and Arabs. Some, such as Orde Wingate, fought alongside the Haganah as part of the Special Night Squads. British Reformationists had written about the restoration of the Jews as early as…
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Orde Wingate
Orde Wingate in Palestine
Orde Wingate enters Addis Ababa on horseback.