Understanding the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires examining who engineered the creation of the state of Israel and what economic interests drove that process. The historical record reveals a web of financial, political, and ideological connections that stretch from European banking dynasties to the oil fields of the Middle East.

The Balfour Declaration and Rothschild Oil Interests

In 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour wrote to Zionist leader Lionel Walter Rothschild expressing official support for establishing a Jewish homeland on Palestinian-controlled territory in the Middle East. This letter, known as the Balfour Declaration, would later be invoked to justify the displacement of Palestinian populations following World War II.

Baron Edmond de Rothschild constructed the first oil pipeline connecting the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, facilitating the transport of British Petroleum’s Iranian oil to Israel. He established Israeli General Bank and Paz Oil, earning recognition as a founding figure in the modern state of Israel. The Rothschild family, whose estimated wealth has been placed at $100 trillion by various analysts, maintained controlling stakes in Royal Dutch/Shell, BP, Anglo-American, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, and numerous global financial institutions.

According to researchers who have studied international banking networks, the family held major positions in the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve, and most private central banks worldwide. Their Middle Eastern presence served to protect oil concessions acquired through corporate entities including the Iranian Consortium, Iraqi Petroleum Company, and Saudi ARAMCO.

The Four Horsemen Oil Alliance

The Rothschild-controlled Shell and BP formed joint ventures with the Rockefeller side of what some historians call the Four Horsemen of oil: Exxon Mobil and Chevron Texaco. This alliance cemented a transatlantic relationship between British and American financial elites that persists to this day.

Critics of this arrangement have argued that wealthy European shareholders effectively gained the ability to deploy the United States military as a protective force for their petroleum interests, with American taxpayers footing the bill. Israel, positioned in close proximity to the oil fields, allegedly served a parallel function, with the Mossad operating less as a national intelligence service and more as a security apparatus for international banking interests.

The Business Roundtable and Secret Societies

The Rothschilds exercised political influence through the Business Roundtable, established in 1909 with Lord Alfred Milner and Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes, who founded De Beers and Standard Chartered Bank, also established the Rhodes Scholarship program administered through Cambridge University.

According to former British Intelligence officer John Coleman, author of Committee of 300, members of the Round Table organization leveraged wealth accumulated from gold, diamond, and drug monopolies to seize control of fiscal policy and political leadership across the globe.

The organizational tentacles extended worldwide. Rhodes and Oppenheimer established operations in South Africa through Anglo-American. Kuhn and Loeb partnered with Morgan and Rockefeller to consolidate financial power in the United States. Rudyard Kipling was dispatched to India, while Schiff and Warburg focused on Russia. Rothschild, Lazard, and Israel Moses Seif concentrated on the Middle East.

The Institute for Advanced Study and Nuclear Weapons

At Princeton University, the Round Table established the Institute for Advanced Study as a counterpart to All Souls College at Oxford. Funded by the Rockefeller General Education Board, the Institute counted among its members Robert Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr, and Albert Einstein, the scientists who developed the atomic bomb.

In 1919, the Business Roundtable spawned the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) in London, which in turn sponsored organizations globally, including the Council on Foreign Relations in the United States. The RIIA, registered as a charity under the British Crown, received substantial funding from the major oil corporations.

Occult Societies and the Rise of Nazism

Colonel Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who led the English Rosicrucian secret society, became a spiritual forefather of both the RIIA and the ideology that would fuel Nazi fascism. In 1871, he published Vril: The Power of the Coming Race, a novel whose concepts received prominent mention in Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf seventy years later.

Lytton’s son became Viceroy to India in 1876, coinciding with a spike in opium production. His associate Rudyard Kipling introduced the swastika symbol to India and later served as Propaganda Minister under Lord Beaverbrook, alongside Sir Charles Hambro of the Hambros banking family.

William Butler Yeats, a member of the elite Children of the Sun group alongside Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, and H.G. Wells, collaborated with Aleister Crowley to form a cult based on a manuscript by Madam Blavatsky. This document called upon the British aristocracy to organize itself into an Aryan priesthood. Blavatsky’s Theosophical Society and Bulwer-Lytton’s Rosicrucians eventually merged to form the Thule Society, from which the Nazi movement emerged.

Banking Dynasties and Nazi Financing

Historical records indicate that major banking families financed the Nazi regime. Max and Paul Warburg sat on the board of I.G. Farben, the German chemical conglomerate. H.A. Metz, director at the Warburg Bank of Manhattan (later Chase Manhattan), also served on the I.G. Farben board. Federal Reserve Board member C.E. Mitchell, who directed Bank of Manhattan, held a position on the board of I.G. Farben’s American subsidiary.

In 1936, Avery Rockefeller established a partnership with the German Schroeder family, who served as Hitler’s personal bankers. Time magazine described the resulting firm, Schroeder, Rockefeller and Company, as the economic booster of the Rome-Berlin Axis. Morgan Guaranty Trust and Union Banking Corporation also provided financial support to the Nazi regime. Prescott Bush, grandfather of President George W. Bush, served on the UBC board.

In 1933, at the home of banker Baron Kurt von Schroeder, a meeting was held that paved the way for Hitler’s rise to power. Among the attendees were brothers John Foster and Allen Dulles, Rockefeller cousins and partners at Sullivan and Cromwell, the law firm that represented Schroeder Bank. Schroeder’s managing director, T.C. Tiarks, simultaneously served as a director at the Bank of England.

Oil Companies and Wartime Collaboration

Even after the United States entered World War II, corporate connections between American firms and Nazi Germany persisted. Exxon Chairman Walter Teagle remained on the board of I.G. Chemical, the American I.G. Farben subsidiary. Exxon supplied the Nazis with tetraethyl lead, a critical component of aviation fuel that only Exxon, Du Pont, and General Motors produced. Teagle also supplied the product to Japan.

By 1942, Thurman Arnold, head of the U.S. Justice Department’s Anti-Trust Division, produced documents demonstrating that Standard Oil and I.G. Farben had divided world markets between them, establishing oil and chemical monopolies across the globe.

Eugenics, the Holocaust, and the Founding of Israel

In 1912, railroad magnate Edward Harriman’s widow joined John D. Rockefeller in funding a eugenics research laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, New York. That same year, the First International Congress of Eugenics convened in London with Winston Churchill presiding. By 1932, the conference had moved to New York, with the Hamburg-Amerika Shipping Line, owned by George Walker and Prescott Bush, transporting the German delegation.

Dr. Ernst Rudin of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Genealogy in Berlin was elected president of the congress for his work founding the German Society of Race Hygiene, a precursor to Hitler’s racial institutes. As of 1998, lawsuits remained pending against Ford, Chase Manhattan, J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Allianz AG, and several Swiss banks for their financial dealings with the Nazi regime.

At the center of Hitler’s inner circle were the secret societies Germanordern (linked to Yale’s Skull and Bones), the Thule Society, and the Vril Society. Concepts of Great Masters, Adepts, and the Great White Brotherhood, which the Nazis used to justify Aryan supremacy, traced back through the Egyptian Mystery Schools, the Teutonic Knights, and Hebrew Cabalist traditions.

War Psychoanalysis of Hitler

Dr. Walter Langer, who conducted a wartime psychoanalysis of Hitler for the OSS (predecessor to the CIA), uncovered an Austrian police report indicating that Hitler’s father was the illegitimate son of a peasant cook named Maria Anna Schicklgruber, who at the time of conception worked as a servant in a Vienna household belonging to the Rothschild family.

In May 1941, Rudolf Hess parachuted onto the estate of the Duke of Hamilton, claiming a supernatural force had compelled him to negotiate with the British. Hitler reportedly experienced a similar episode and subsequently turned against occultism, ordering a crackdown on Freemasons, Templars, and the Theosophical Society. Shortly afterward, international banking support for Hitler was withdrawn, and within six months the United States entered the war.

The Creation of Israel and Palestinian Displacement

The Holocaust generated the international sympathy necessary to advance the already-planned establishment of Israel. In the closing stages of World War II, paramilitary organizations including the Haganah and the Stern Gang were deployed to terrorize Palestinian populations and seize their land.

Those who escaped the concentration camps were disproportionately individuals of financial means who had embraced Zionism. For a substantial fee, these individuals purchased passage to Israel while poorer Jews, along with Serbs, communists, and Roma, faced extermination. Some historians have characterized the entire catastrophe as a eugenics project driven more by class warfare than by ethnicity or religion.

Following the Money Trail

The critical insight in this historical analysis is that the same international banking networks supported both the rise of Nazism and the creation of Israel. The Rothschilds identify as Jewish while the Rockefellers claim Christianity, but researchers argue these religious affiliations function as smokescreens. Throughout history, financial elites have sacrificed people of every race and religion to advance their agenda of consolidated global control.

From this perspective, Israel functions not as a genuine Jewish homeland but as a strategic asset in the control of petroleum resources. Its citizens become geopolitical instruments wielded by multinational corporations and their banking overlords in an ongoing international resource competition.

No lasting peace in the region is achievable without addressing the foundational injustices of Palestinian displacement and recognizing the economic forces that engineered the conflict from its inception.