There have been friendships in history that literally changed the world. One such relationship made an impact just after the Jews of the world lost 6 million of their brothers and sisters during World War II. In 1947, the British announced they were turning over the contentious question of Palestine to the United Nations. In November of that year, the U.N. voted to partition the land, giving roughly half of western Palestine to the Jews and half to the Arabs. The Jews accepte

New book! New book contract! New Inspiration Website! New interview with CAN (Christian Author's Network)! Thanks to Marti Pieper and Sarah Sundin for a great interview. Greetings from Marti Pieper in sunny, rainy (almost every afternoon right now) Florida. I first met the subject of today’s interview when I picked him and some other authors up at the Orlando airport to head to the 2010 Florida Christian Writers Conference. We’ve crossed paths several times through the years,

"I love when I’m speaking to promote a book and I can tell that the light is coming on in the minds of people in the audience. They are getting it." "I have recently completed a biography of President Harry S. Truman and the Zionist Movement to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration and the 70th Anniversary of the rebirth of Israel. This new book, I Am Cyrus: Harry S. Truman and the Rebirth of Israel, will be released soon." Read the full interview: Meet

The story of Harry S. Truman runs in parallel with the Zionist Movement until they eventually meet as the world considered the fate of the Jews after the Holocaust. On May 8, 1884, in the small village of Lamar, Missouri, a horse and mule trader named John Anderson Truman rejoiced with his wife, Martha, at the birth of a healthy baby boy. Three years earlier a different kind of birth occurred when Tsar Alexander II of Russia was assassinated and the authorities blamed the Jew

Today, the UN marked the 70th anniversary of the resolution for the existence of the Jewish state. US Vice President Mike Pence and representatives of the 33 countries that voted in favor of the resolution were present. More from Jerusalem Online #Israel #IsraelRebirth #UN #UnitedNations #Partition #Vote #November28 #1947 #HolyLand #MiddleEast #Jerusalem