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You are full of reruns today.
Well, actually every day.
Well, actually every day.
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Asshole, can you please get engaged to a Palestinian girl?
You are full of reruns today.
Well, actually every day.
The nation of Israel was in conflict with the Arameans for about 300 years, from the time of David, ca. 1000 BC, until Assyria annexed the Aramean city-states at the end of the eighth century BC. Most of the conflict was with the city-state of Damascus that, under Hazael, dominated Israel in the second half of the ninth century. A recently discovered inscription, the Tel Dan Stela, takes us back to those days.
The largest fragment of the Tel Dan Stela, Fragment A, was discovered at Tel Dan in northern Israel in July 1993 (Biran and Naveh 1993; Wood 1993). Then, in June 1994, two additional joining fragments, labeled Fragment B, were found (Biran and Naveh 1995). Together, Fragments A and B represent only a fraction of a much longer inscription. The language is Aramaic and it celebrates the victory of a king of Aram over Israel and Judah. It is the first royal inscription to be found in Israel.
The most stunning aspect of the document is the reference to Judah as the “House of David.” For the first time, it was thought, the name David appeared in an extra-Biblical document. At about the same time, however, two French scholars, André Lemaire (1994) and Émile Puech (1994), independently recognized the same phrase in the Mesha Inscription, which has been around for well over 100 years (Wood 1995). It now likely that the name David is in a third inscription. Egyptologist K.A. Kitchen believes that the phrase “highland of David” appears in the Shishak inscription in the Temple of Amun at Karnak, Egypt (1997: 39–41). All this at a time when a number of scholars were challenging the existence of the United Monarchy and a king name David.
Reruns all day every day.
The Arabic name of the city of Jerusalem, al-Quds, is of comparatively late appearance. In the earliest Arabic references, from the time of the prophet and shortly after, Jerusalem is normally called Iliya, from Aelia, the name which the Romans gave to the city in the second century, or, in full, as Iliya madinat bayt al-maqdis, "Aelia, the city of the temple" Later, the city is referred to as Bayt al-Maqdis, and then simply as al-Quds. The resemblance to the ancient Hebrew Bayt ha-Miqdash and ha-Qodesh will be obvious.
The fraudulent Arabs don't even have an original name for Jerusalem in Arabic.
The fraudulent Arabs don't even have an original name for Jerusalem in Arabic.
What difference does that make?
On August 18 Yasir Arafat, speaking as head of the Palestinian National Authority in Gaza and Jericho, told Arab youngsters at a summer camp, "Those of you who lit the intifada fire must now act as defenders of this young state, whose capital is Jerusalem. It is Bir Salem [the fountain of Salem]. Salem was one of the Canaanite Kings, one of our forefathers. This city is the capital of our children and our children's children. If not for this belief and conviction of the Palestinian nation, this people would have been erased from the face of the earth, as were so many other nations."
King Salem is a newcomer on the historical scene. No such Canaanite, Jebusite or Philistine king is known to history
SURIF, West Bank -- A 20-year-old Palestinian woman who was thrown into a well and left to die in the name of "family honor" has not become just another statistic in one of the Middle East's most shameful practices.
The killing of Aya Baradiya by an uncle who didn't like a potential suitor sparked such outrage that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas scrapped laws this week that guaranteed sentences of six months or less for such killings.
On the day of the killing, the uncle and two accomplices snatched the woman and tied her hands and feet, Hebron police chief Ramadan Awad said. The suspects told interrogators she screamed and demanded to know why they wanted to kill her, but the uncle said only that she deserved to die, he said. She told them she had done nothing wrong, then her attackers dumped her into the well The water would have reached to her neck, Awad said, adding: "We can't be sure ... if she died immediately or it took her a long time to die."
So-called "honor killings" are committed regularly in traditional Arab societies that enforce strict separation between the sexes and view an unmarried woman's unsupervised contact with a man, even by telephone, as a stain on the family's reputation. There were nine such killings in the West Bank last year, and Jordan reports about 20 every year.
The police chief said suspects in honor killings often come forward immediately because they don't face serious punishment and a confession is part of the "cleansing" of family honor. However, Aya Baradiya's uncle remained silent, even saying at one point that his niece had called him and told him she just decided to go away.
Leniency for honor killings dates back to a 1960 Jordanian legal codex, parts of which are still in effect in the West Bank; the area was under Jordanian rule until it was captured by Israel in 1967. Awad, the Hebron police chief, said that under the old system, someone who killed for family honor would get a maximum of six months in prison.
In 2010, there were nine family honor killings in the West Bank, Awad said. In most cases, "family honor" was just a pretext, he added: Men would kill to clear the path for remarriage, get their wives' gold or because of problems in the family. The tougher new laws will likely reduce the number of such killings, he said.
In Hamas-ruled Gaza, at least 10 women were killed by male relatives over the past three years, according to a local activist, Majda Ibrahim. She said punishment is generally light, though in one case, a man was sentenced to death for killing his cousin after she rejected his marriage proposal. The man is on death row.
Palestinian Woman Aya Baradiya's 'Honor' Killing Sparks Tougher West Bank Laws
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Bulldozers of the Israeli municipality of occupied Jerusalem razed a Palestinian home in Beit Hanina, north of the holy city, on Monday the second in a single day.
Large numbers of policemen, special forces, and border police encircled the Ashqariya neighborhood in Beit Hanina and tore down the house of Majdi Salayma at the pretext of lack of construction permit.
The 50-square-meter house provided shelter for Salayma, his wife, and four sons the eldest 10 years old and the youngest 5 years old.
The municipality bulldozers had earlier Monday leveled a Palestinian home in Yasul in Silwan town, south of the Aqsa Mosque.
Local sources said that the 150-square-meter house owned by Zakaria Burqan used to shelter eight individuals.
IOA razes Palestinian home in Beit Hanina
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Bulldozers of the Israeli municipality of occupied Jerusalem razed a Palestinian home in Beit Hanina, north of the holy city, on Monday the second in a single day.
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Bulldozers of the Israeli municipality of occupied Jerusalem
Jerusalem became the capital of the first Jewish kingdom in 1004 BC, over 3000 years ago. With the brief exception of the Crusader period, no other non-Jewish ruling power of Jerusalem made the city a capital but it was consistently a capital for the Jews. Driven into partial exile by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC, the Jews returned fifty years later and rebuilt Jerusalem as their capital. It was their capital, too, under the Maccabees. The unity of the city achieved in 1967, then, was more than a quirk of military geography. It was the fulfillment of unbroken historical longings.
Jerusalem is the site of the Temple of Solomon and Herod. The stones of a palace erected by King David himself are even now being unearthed just outside the walls of Jerusalem. Everything that makes a nation state legitimate – bloodshed, soil tilled, two millennia of continuous residence, international agreements – argues for Israel’s right to exist
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Bulldozers of the Israeli municipality of occupied Jerusalem razed a Palestinian home in Beit Hanina, north of the holy city, on Monday the second in a single day.
Large numbers of policemen, special forces, and border police encircled the Ashqariya neighborhood in Beit Hanina and tore down the house of Majdi Salayma at the pretext of lack of construction permit.
The 50-square-meter house provided shelter for Salayma, his wife, and four sons the eldest 10 years old and the youngest 5 years old.
The municipality bulldozers had earlier Monday leveled a Palestinian home in Yasul in Silwan town, south of the Aqsa Mosque.
Local sources said that the 150-square-meter house owned by Zakaria Burqan used to shelter eight individuals.
IOA razes Palestinian home in Beit Hanina
"Israeli municipality of occupied Jerusalem"
No such place.
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Bulldozers of the Israeli municipality of occupied Jerusalem razed a Palestinian home in Beit Hanina, north of the holy city, on Monday the second in a single day.
Large numbers of policemen, special forces, and border police encircled the Ashqariya neighborhood in Beit Hanina and tore down the house of Majdi Salayma at the pretext of lack of construction permit.
The 50-square-meter house provided shelter for Salayma, his wife, and four sons the eldest 10 years old and the youngest 5 years old.
The municipality bulldozers had earlier Monday leveled a Palestinian home in Yasul in Silwan town, south of the Aqsa Mosque.
Local sources said that the 150-square-meter house owned by Zakaria Burqan used to shelter eight individuals.
IOA razes Palestinian home in Beit Hanina
"Israeli municipality of occupied Jerusalem"
No such place.
Actually Jerusalem is inside Palestine's borders not Israel's.
PBS: Paula Fredriksen...The Judean revolt against Rome was led by [Jewish messiah] Bar Kochba in 132-135 CE. The immediate causes of this rebellion are obscure. Its result was not: [Roman Emperor] Hadrian crushed the revolt and banned Jews from Judea. The Romans now designated this territory by a political neologism, "Palestine" [a Latin form of "Philistine"], in a deliberate effort to denationalize Jewish/Judean territory. And, finally, Hadrian eradicated Jewish Jerusalem, erecting upon its ruins a new pagan city, Aelia Capitolina.Augustine and the Jews: A Christian ... - Paula Fredriksen - Google Books
Israel appears in the Bible 2000+ times. Palestine, not once.Specializing in the history of early Christianity, Paula Fredriksen is author of two books and over a dozen articles on early Christianity. Among her numerous awards and honors are a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for University Professors and a Lady Davis Visiting Professorship of Ancient Christianity at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her second book, From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus, received the Yale Press Governors' Award for Best Book in 1988. Fredriksen holds a Ph.D. in history of religions, ancient christianity, and Greco-Roman religions from Princeton University and a theology diploma from Oxford University. She served as historical consultant for the BBC production The Lives of Jesus and was a featured speaker and historical consultant for U.S. News and World Report's "The Life and Times of Jesus."
Biographies | From Jesus To Christ - The First Christians | FRONTLINE | PBS
Exodus 34:27: Then the LORD said to Moses, Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.
Jesus was King of Israel, not "Palestine"Samuel 13:1: Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty two years
John 12:12-13 The next day the great crowd that had come for the Feast heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. They took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Jesus Enters Jerusalem as King of Israel John 12 Commentary - Jesus Enters Jerusalem as King of Israel - BibleGateway.comJohn 1:49: Then Nathanael declared, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel."
.Passover was one of the three feasts that Jews were supposed to attend in Jerusalem, and consequently the population of Jerusalem swelled enormously at this time. As this great crowd is beginning to gather from around Israel and the larger world of the diaspora, news about Jesus is spreading, and people are wondering whether he will come to the feast. On Sunday, the day after the party in Bethany at which Mary anointed Jesus, news arrives that Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem, and a crowd of pilgrims, presumably those who had been wondering if he would come, goes out to meet him. Mary's private expression of emotion is now matched by the crowd's public outpouring of enthusiasm.
They shout Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!. These are lines from one of the Psalms of Ascents sung as a welcome to pilgrims coming up to Jerusalem. As such, this is an entirely appropriate thing to do as Jesus is coming up to Jerusalem. The cry of Hosanna! is a Hebrew word (hoshi`ah-na) that had become a greeting or shout of praise but that actually meant "Save!" or "Help!". The cry of Hosanna! and the palm branches are in themselves somewhat ambiguous, but their import is made clear as the crowd adds a further line, Blessed is the King of Israel! (v. 13). Clearly they see in Jesus the answer to their nationalistic, messianic hopes. Earlier a crowd had wanted to make Jesus king (6:15), and now this crowd is recognizing him as king in the city of the great King. Here is the great dream of a Davidic ruler who would come and liberate Israel, establishing peace and subduing the Gentiles (cf. Psalms of Solomon 17:21-25).
John the Baptist's witness to Israel (1:31) finds its initial response in the confession of Nathanael, a true Israelite (1:47), when Nathanael confesses Jesus to be the Son of God, the King of Israel (1:49). Nathanael stands in marked contrast to Nicodemus, a teacher of Israel (3:10), who is unable to understand earthly things, let alone heavenly things. So the first three chapters are characterized by a concern with the initial witness to Israel, and this motif now finds its fullness in this crowd's acclamation of Jesus as the King of Israel. Jesus is indeed King of Israel, and this motif now comes to the fore as the story nears its end His kingdom, however, far transcends Israel's boundaries. "What honor was it to the Lord to be King of Israel? What great thing was it to the King of eternity to become the King of men?".
The crowd is probably not aware that the line they have added to the acclamation is an echo of another passage that further contributes to the depth of revelation concerning Jesus in this story: "The Lord, the King of Israel, is with you; never again will you fear any harm"
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Bulldozers of the Israeli municipality of occupied Jerusalem razed a Palestinian home in Beit Hanina, north of the holy city, on Monday the second in a single day.
Large numbers of policemen, special forces, and border police encircled the Ashqariya neighborhood in Beit Hanina and tore down the house of Majdi Salayma at the pretext of lack of construction permit.
The 50-square-meter house provided shelter for Salayma, his wife, and four sons the eldest 10 years old and the youngest 5 years old.
The municipality bulldozers had earlier Monday leveled a Palestinian home in Yasul in Silwan town, south of the Aqsa Mosque.
Local sources said that the 150-square-meter house owned by Zakaria Burqan used to shelter eight individuals.
IOA razes Palestinian home in Beit Hanina
"Israeli municipality of occupied Jerusalem"
No such place.
Actually Jerusalem is inside Palestine's borders not Israel's.
"Israeli municipality of occupied Jerusalem"
No such place.
Actually Jerusalem is inside Palestine's borders not Israel's.
Palestine? No such thing.