Rare 2000 years old coins on display in Israel »
Posted By israeligirl1 1 week, 1 day ago in NewsA collection of rare coins charred and burned nearly 2,000 years ago are on display in Israel. The collection of 70 coins were found in an excavation at the foot of a key Jerusalem holy site. They give a rare glimpse into the period of the Jewish revolt that eventually led to the destruction of the Second Jewish Temple in A.D. 70.
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hyperbola1 week, 1 day ago
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Waste of time this article. Much older Phoenician coins were produced in Jerusalem far earlier. AND the history of this article is mostly propaganda. These coins could just as easily be the "pieces of silver" paid to Judas. What this sugests is that it is long past time to restore Jerusalem's statuis as an international city and turn archaeological excavations over to international experts.
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Judas' 30 Pieces of Silver, Jerusalem or Tyre Mint, 34 - 35 A.D.
Click for a larger photo Judas' 30 Pieces of Silver
Then one of the 12, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, and said unto them, 'What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you?' And they covenanted with him for 30 pieces of silver. Matthew 26:14-15. Shekels of Tyre were the only currency accepted at the Jerusalem Temple and are the most likely coinage with which Judas was paid for the betrayal of Jesus.
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hyperbola1 week, 1 day ago
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Or, if coins to "exemplify" the history of the region are needed, how about some coins from the time of the Mamilla Pool genocide. You know - the christian and moslem cemetary and monument that the zionists just coverted into hotel parking lot.
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Mamilla Pool
http://shamir.mediamonitors.net/april242001.html
...Outside of Jerusalem’s Jaffa gate (Bab al-Halil), there was once a small neighbourhood called Mamilla, destroyed by real estate developers just a few years ago. In its place they created a monstrous ‘village’ for the super-rich, abutting the plush Hilton Hotel. A bit further away, there is the old Mamilla cemetery of the Arab nobles and the Mamilla Pool, a water reservoir dug by Pontius Pilate. During the development works, the workers came across a burial cave holding hundreds of sculls and bones. It was adorned by a cross and a legend: ‘God alone knows their names’. The Biblical Archaeology Review, published by the Jewish American Herschel Shanks, printed a long feature [i] by the Israeli archaeologist Ronny Reich on this discovery.
The dead were laid to their eternal rest in AD 614, the most dreadful year in the history of Palestine until the 20th century. The Scottish scholar, Adam Smith, wrote in his Historical Geography of Palestine: until now, the terrible devastation of 614 is visible in the land, it could not be healed.
By 614, Palestine was a part of the Roman successor state, the Byzantine Empire. It was a prosperous, predominantly Christian land of well developed agriculture, of harnessed water systems, and carefully laid terraces. Pilgrims came in flocks to the Holy places, and the Constantine-built edifices of Holy Sepulchre and of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives were among the manmade wonders of the world. The Judean wilderness was enlivened by eighty monasteries, where precious manuscripts were collected and prayers offered. Fathers of the church, St Jerome of Bethlehem and Origenes of Caesarea, were still a living memory....-
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hyperbola1 week, 1 day ago
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...In 614, local Palestinian Jews allied with their Babylonian coreligionists and assisted the Persians in their conquest of the Holy Land. In the aftermath of the Persian victory, Jews perpetrated a massive holocaust of the Gentiles of Palestine. They burned the churches and the monasteries, killed monks and priests, burned books. The beautiful basilica of Fishes and Loaves in Tabgha, the Ascension on Mount of Olives, St Steven opposite Damascus Gate and the Hagia Sion on Mt Zion, are just at the top of the list of perished edifices. Indeed, very few churches survived the onslaught. The Great Laura of St Sabas, tucked away in the bottomless Ravine of Fire (Wadi an-Nar) was saved by its remote location and steep crags. The Church of Nativity miraculously survived: when Jews commanded its destruction, the Persians balked. They perceived the Magi mosaic above the lintel as the portrait of Persian kings.
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This devastation was not the worst crime. When Jerusalem surrendered to the Persians, thousands of local Christians became prisoners of war, and were herded to the Mamilla Pool area. The Israeli archaeologist Ronny Reich writes: ‘They were probably sold to the highest bidder. According to some sources, the Christian captives at Mamilla Pond were bought by Jews and were then slain on the spot’. An eyewitness, Strategius of St Sabas, was more vivid: ‘Jews ransomed the Christians from the hands of the Persian soldiers for good money, and slaughtered them with great joy at Mamilla Pool, and it ran with blood’. Jews massacred 60,000 Palestinian Christians in Jerusalem alone. The earth’s population was probably about 50 million then, 100 times smaller than today. A few days later, the Persian military understood the magnitude of the massacre and stopped the Jews....
...The holocaust of the Christian Palestinians in year 614 is well documented and you will find it described in older books, for instance in the three volumes of Runciman’s History of The Crusades. It has been censored out of modern guides and history books. It is a pity, as without this knowledge one cannot understand the provisions of the treaty between the Jerusalemites and Caliph Omar ibn Khattab, concluded in year 638. In the Sulh al Quds, as this treaty of capitulation is called, Patriarch Sofronius demanded, and the powerful Arab ruler agreed to protect the people of Jerusalem from the ferocity of the Jews.... -
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hyperbola1 week, 1 day ago
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...Modern Jews do not have to feel guilty for the misdeeds of Jews long gone. No son is responsible for the sins of his father. Israel could have turned this mass grave with its Byzantine chapel and mosaics into a small and meaningful memorial, reminding its citizens of a horrible page in the history of the land and of the dangers of genocidal supremacy. Instead, the Israeli authorities preferred to demolish the tomb and create an underground parking lot in its place. It did not cause a murmur.
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The Israeli guardians of the Jewish conscience, Amos Oz and others, have objected to the destruction of the ancient remains. No, not of the tomb at Mamilla. They ran a petition against the keepers of the Haram a-Sharif mosque complex for digging a ten-inch trench to lay a new pipe. It did not matter to them that, in an op-ed in Haaretz, the leading Israeli archaeologist of the area denied all relevance of the mosque works to science. They still described it as ‘a barbaric act of Muslims aimed at the obliteration of the Jewish heritage of Jerusalem’. Among the signatories, I found, to my amazement and sorrow the name of Ronny Reich. One thinks, he might tell them who obliterated the vestiges of the Jewish heritage at Mamilla Pool.
Why do I find it necessary to tell the story of the Mamilla bloodbath? Because there is nothing more dangerous than the feeling of self-righteousness and perpetual victimhood reinforced by a one-sided historical narrative....
..Censored history creates a distorted picture of reality. Recognition of past is a necessary step on the way to sanity. The Germans and the Japanese have recognized the crimes of their fathers, have came to grips with their moral failings and have emerged as humbler, less boastful folks, akin to the rest of human race. We Jews have so far failed to exorcise the haughty spirit of the Chosenness, and found ourselves in a dire predicament.
That is why the idea of supremacy is still with us, still calling for genocide. In 1982, Amos Oz [iii] met an Israeli, who shared with the writer his dream of becoming a Jewish Hitler to the Palestinians. Slowly this dream is becoming a reality. ... -
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hyperbola1 week, 1 day ago
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The Haaretz published an ad on its front page [iv], a fatwa, signed by a group of Rabbis. The Rabbis proclaimed the theological identification of Ishmael, i.e. the Arabs, with the Amalek. ‘Amalek’ is mentioned in the Bible as the name of a tribe that caused trouble for the Children of Israel. In this story, the God of Israel commands His people to exterminate the Amalek tribe completely, including its livestock. King Saul botched the job: he exterminated them all right, but failed to kill nubile unwed maidens. This ‘failure’ cost him his crown. The obligation to exterminate the people of Amalek is still counted among the tenets of the Jewish faith, though for centuries nobody made the identification of a living nation with the accursed tribe.
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There was one exclusion showing how dangerous the ruling is. At the end of WWII, some Jews, including the late Prime Minister Menachem Begin, identified the Germans with Amalek. Indeed, a Jewish religious socialist and a fighter against Nazis, Abba Kovner, hatched in 1945 a plot to poison the water supply system of German cities and to kill ‘six million Germans’. He obtained poison from the future President of Israel, Efraim Katzir. Katzir supposedly thought Kovner intends to poison ‘only’ a few thousands of German POW’s. The plan mercifully flopped when Kovner was stopped by British officials in a European port. This story was published last year in Israel in a biography of Kovner written by Prof Dina Porat, head of Anti-Semitism Research Centre at Tel Aviv university [v].
In plain English, the Rabbis’ fatwa means: our religious duty is to kill all Arabs, including women and babies and their livestock; to the last cat. The liberal Haaretz, whose editor and owner are sufficiently versed to understand the fatwa, did not hesitate to place the ad....
It would be unfair to single out Haaretz. Another prominent Jewish newspaper, The Washington Post, published an equally passionate call to genocide by Charles Krauthammer [vi]..... Krauthammer wants to repeat this feat in Palestine. ‘It’ is already cut off, divided by the Israeli army into seventy pieces. Now it is ready for the great kill. ‘Kill it!’, he calls with great passion. He must be worried that the Persians will again stop the bloodbath before the Mamilla Pool fills up. His worries are our hopes.
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Edmar141 week, 1 day ago
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Hyperbulla writes her own history. She takes bits and pieces, leaving out the rest and twists it to form a new history that never existed. I can tell you now that everything that is posted above is the most twisted history lesson you will ever receive. In fact, in other posts, she denies that the UN ever had a partition plan or vote, even though there is undeniable UN records of the vote and the outcome. It is also historically extremely documented. Hyperbull loves to twist words and add her own meanings to what people have said, changing the entire context of the actual statement. If you believe anything that this person says, I have a bridge for sale that you will love to own. It's in New York City and connects Manhattan with Brooklyn. My ability to sell that bridge is about as real as Hyperbull's history lessons. This gal is a master at spinning propaganda to her agenda. Educated people know her for what she is, however. Why would she would pick a story so benign as this to spew her venom? Because she uses any and all platforms and soap boxes to spread her misinformation. Still want to buy that bridge?
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Daylight1 week ago
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Well, all the excavations are done in order to prove the Jewish people existed there in Palestine; we are not denying that but no excavation will ever prove the European Zionists have anything to to do with the claims such as Jewish home land theory.
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You can't take a country by force and say we lived there 3000 years ago here is the proof and that's not the way things work.There have been people lived there before 3000 years ago too and they can make the same claim too, if only a couple of powerful countries with their ow agenda support that claim. Here the Zionists are successful because they are supported by USA, Britain, France and Russia.-
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Endoscopy1 week ago
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DNA proves it silly. There are DNA markers in all Jews. A tribe of people in Africa maintained they were Jews even though they were black from intermarriage. They had the Torah and other Jewish religious books and artifacts. They were practicing the religion. They had a history about how they came to be there. That history was found to be accurate and they had the genetic markers of Jews.
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Your rants about the Jews from the diaspora not having any claim on the land is silly.
You talk about not taking a land by force. Why is it only applied to Israel??? Should Pakistan go back and be part of India? Should all Muslims go back to Medina where Muhammad started his conquests from? Your claim that the Jews have no claim flies in the face of history. It was a land that no one really wanted. It was arid and inhospitable. There were Jews living there since Moses led them there. Not all of them were forced out. The land went back and forth between different conquests times but very few people wanted to live there. The Jews were among the people that did
Starting about 300 years ago more and more Jews went there to live. Where they lived they turned the area into an agricultural domain. Instead of the brown it was green. They hired Arab workers to help. The Arabs did nothing to their land to make it better. Those are the Palestinians. They came there with a lot of Jews. So why don't you want them to go back from where they came from as well??? Your bias is showing.
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