"ISLAM THREAT"

Peter

Friedman's background is replete with relationships to the Middle East, especially what was Palestine prior to the formation of the State of Israel on May 15, 1948. Personal family friends were David ben-Gurion, Moshe Guy, Henrietta Szold, and Baron James de Rothschild. Elisha Friedman, a Great Uncle and investment banker, was the Executive Director of the Jewish Agency in New York City in 1922.

The Agency was purposefully created by the British Mandate for Palestine under the League of Nations to raise funds to purchase land from the Arabs for Jewish settlement. All of the land comprising the State of Israel on May 15, 1948 was bought and paid for. The deeds to the land can be found in the Central Zionist Archives located in Jerusalem. Numerous books have been published on the subject with copies of the deeds included. Elisha Friedman also was a partner of President Herbert Hoover in creating a plan to relocate many Palestinian Arabs to Iraq – a relocation supported completely by Emir Feisal at the time. Funds were actually raised to cover the relocation costs, but other Muslim countries objected on "religious" grounds so the project failed. How might have history been altered had it succeeded!