'Abdul-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi had closer relations with British settlers and Zionists.

'Abdul-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi had closer relations with British settlers and Zionists, and due to this fact, they managed to get many advantages and benefits with the Israeli government.

On February 23, 1914, at the eve of World War I, 'Abdu'l-Bahá had hosted Baron Edmond James de Rothschild, a member of the Rothschild banking family who was a leading advocate and financier of the Zionist movement, during one of his early trips to Palestine. (Star of the West. Vol. 9) an article in the "Star of the West" quoted 'Abdu'l-Bahá praising the Zionist movement, proclaiming that "There is too much talk today of what the Zionists are going to do here. There is no need of it. Let them come and do more and say less" and that "A Jewish government might come later." in the 1880s most of the village land of al-Samra was purchased by Bahá'u'lláh, with the villagers continuing to farm as tenant farmers. In the 1920s, this land was sold by Shoghi Effendi to the Jewish National Fund. On April 21, 1948, the Arab village of al-Samra, where ‘Abdu’l-Bahá had owned land and grown grain, was depopulated. It was registered in the "All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948"

"Sir Arthur Wauchope (administrator sympathetic to Zionist aspirations), Colonel Symes (the British colonial Governor of the Palestine North District from 1920 to 1925) and Keith-Roach he British (Colonial administrator during the British mandate on Palestine, who also served as the governor of Jerusalem from 1926 to 1945) had a personal liking for Shoghi Effendi and who, one suspects, understood how heavy the burden was that rested on the shoulders of the young man who was the Head of the Bahá'í Faith. It was during the period of his administration that some of the greatest victories in winning concessions from the authorities took place, the most important of these, next to the right of the Community to obey some of its own laws governing personal status, being the exemption from taxation of the entire area surrounding the Shrine of the Bab on Mt. Carmel." (Priceless Pearl - Ruhiyyih Khanum; Chap.10)

ALL closer personal relations made by 'Abdul-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi were drawn with British settlers and supporters/investors of Zionist movement as the Rothschild family, but despite of that, the Bahá'í Faith do not take sides on the Israel-Palestine conflict, right??? LOL

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