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7th March 2010, seh,mgh

 

6) Tunguska Explosion Heralding World War 1 1908

The events leading to the Balfour Declaration of 1917 began in Russia, with the pogroms. Chaim Weizmann a Russian Jew who was instrumental in the declaration, met Balfour in 1906 and convinced Balfour. After the 8th Zionist Congress in 1908 Arthur Ruppin came to live in Israel, and bought land organising the second Aliyah, preparing for a Jewish homeland.

Also in 1908 the first Balkan war broke out which led to WW1 and the British mandate for Palestine.

Image from the Soviet Academy of Science 1927 expedition led by Leonid Kulik. Wikicommons

On June 30,1908 the Tunguska event occurred, an impact event over land considered the largest in Earth's recent history. Russians observed in the sky a moving column of bluish light, nearly as bright as the sun. There was a flash with a sound of an explosion and a shock wave or tremor that broke windows and knocked people off their feet and was registered at seismic stations across Eurasia. The fluctuations in atmospheric pressure were detected as far away as Great Britain. For the next few days the night skies glowed from Asia to Europe, even in London people could read a newspaper by the light; In the United States Observatories observed for several months a decrease in atmospheric transparency.

While the British were reading their newspapers by the eerie light at night, they may have read of the Young Turk revolution of July 3 1908 in the Ottoman Empire, which by July 23 forced Sultan Abdul Hamid II to restore a 1876 constitution. By October 5 Bulgaria declared it's independence from the Ottomans. On October 6th the Bosnian crisis began, with Emperor Franz Joseph annexing Bosnia, and his subsequent assassination began the First World war. The war led to the British control of Palestine.

After 1927 the nations could ponder the magnitude of a mighty blast that felled many trees. In the Bible 'trees' are symbols of nations (Luke 21:29, Ezekiel 31, Judges 9:14) and WW1 was an explosion that broke the power of the great nation 'trees'.

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