Posted on 09/07/2016 5:19:47 AM PDT by wtd
The International River Jordan Water Company was launched by Col. Clifford E. Naudaud of Covington, Kentucky, in 1906. He secured "the sole right of shipping the water of the Jordan River from the banks of the stream in Palestine to all parts of the world for baptismal and other purposes," according to a Kentucky newspaper, The Bee, published in Earlington, KY.
The water was "shipped in casks bearing the seals of the Turkish Government and the American Consul," according to The Bee. "The water will be bottled in the United States in bonded warehouses."
The American Consul granting his seal for the commercial venture may have cost the veteran diplomat his job. His departure was a blessing for the Jews of Palestine. The Consul-General was undoubtedly the nastiest anti-Semite to ever hold that post.
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Ridiculous.
US flag in the photo has 45 stars...in 1906 Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona had not yet become states.
nor Alaska and Hawaii
:)
Oddly, the link fails to mention who this anti-Semite American Consul-General was (you have to buy a book to find out). I did some research and found out this character was one Selah Merrill, who unfortunately secured three terms as Consul to Jerusalem under Republican Presidents Garfield, Arthur, McKinley & Roosevelt (with only Cleveland booting him due to party affiliation).
More about Merrill here:
http://www.shapell.org/manuscript/garfield-us-consul-jerusalem
Left out one, Harrison also reappointed him in 1891. I have no idea why he managed to secure three terms. Presumably he was politically connected, and he did hold sway at the State Department. It was fashionable at the time to be an anti-Semite, with many opposing any sort of migration from Eastern Europe because they were seen as poor “rabble” and “troublemakers” and politically and religiously incompatible with the U.S.
Thank you for posting follow-up. The short article was very poorly written.
I remember growing up that a non-Jewish friend of ours had relatives that went to Israel and they brought her back a bottle of sand from the banks of the Jordan River. Never did run any tests.
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