The official story that Theodor Herzl instigated the Zionist movement is demolished by this 1829 newspaper report. The question that stands out here is how did the Rothschild know that strategically, Israel's presence in the Middle East would be crucial to control the world's oil supplies?
That wasn't known until 1908 at the very earliest, and suggests that once again we are manipulated by banking bloodlines that plan hundred(s) of years in advance and have access to information that leading scientists of the day did not know.
