by Oui
Wed Nov 5th, 2025 at 10:11:12 AM EST
BS of course as it has been the other way around since at least 9/11 ...
One of oldest churches in the world reduced to rubble in Gaza
CNN reports that many of Gaza's cultural treasures and priceless landmarks, dating back thousands of years, have been destroyed.
Gaza's ancient treasures threatened | Electronic Intifada - 2010 |
"My favorite place in Gaza is the Great Omari Mosque. I like to pray and read the Quran there. The tall minaret is very unique"- Samira Elbaz, 9 years old
Gaza's Omari Grand Mosque: A combination of civilizations (Arab News)
Few outside of Gaza would consider its history much beyond the decades of Israeli occupation. But Gaza is a historical treasure house. Many of those treasures are now in Israeli museums, and those that remain are becoming difficult to preserve due to the Israeli siege.
Gaza, set along the historical silk road and on the bridge between Africa and Asia, was host to civilizations, including the Pharaohs, Canaanites, Philistines, Crusaders, Mamluks, Romans and many following. Alexander the Great invaded Gaza; Napoleon Bonaparte passed through.
"Throughout Gaza, you find pottery and carved columns and capitals, and the remnants of civilizations past, including artifacts from early human presence like the iron and bronze ages," says Asad Ashoor from the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in Gaza.
"There are visible relics in Gaza," says Ashoor. These have survived civilizations and more recently, Israeli bombings.
In the Deir al-Balah region, the vast excavated remains of the Monastery of Saint Hilarion, the first church in Palestine, include surprisingly intact floor mosaics and structural pillars.
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The Arab World Institute in Paris is putting Palestinian heritage on display in its new exhibit "Rescued Treasures from Gaza : 5000 Years of History".
From the diaries ...
America It Is Not About the Left - Update | 16 Sept. 2025 |
Trump should be reassuring the country at this time. Instead he is sowing fear | The Guardian Opinion |
MAGA Movement of Hate, Violence, Division | 11 Sept. 2025 |
[I was writing a new story with the title "Assassin" on historic levels of deceit, lack of diplomacy, using brutal violence ... and murdering people of good faith negotiating peace]
The terror state "owned" stalwart Charlie Kirk, a true crusader for right and justice.
Bibi Netanyahu on death of Charlie Kirk
"stood tall for Judeo-Christian civilization"
Trump's 'Martyr' Charlie Kirk Heads Dutch Riots | 21 sept. 2025 |
In America on local politics ... last throes of pro-Israel HATE campaign led by AIPAC on a national scale.
Worthwhile read ...
Ultranationalist and religious fundamentalist movements frequently use hate to mobilize people | by Joan Davison – 2007 |
Seattle Pro-Israel Stealth PACs Smear Local Candidates | Tikun Olam |
This is how the poison spreads. School board races are generally non-partisan affairs, based on hyper-local educational issues. But accepting such outside support, candidates are injecting extraneous partisan issues into elections. This is Citizens United run amok.
Aipac: the “art” of the smear
It is a tactic Aipac and its affiliate PACs have used to defeat candidates in federal elections. When polled about their priorities, Americans ranked Israel 20th on their list. Only 9% of American Jews
rank Israel among their two top priorities. The Israel Lobby, which probably has done its own polling on this issue, knows that attack ads intended to smear progressive Democratic primary candidates, will not resonate based on Israel. So they identify weaknesses in these candidates wholly unrelated to Israel, and air ads which smear them with blaring, false claims intended to suppress turnout among their likely supporters.
It’s a nasty, underhanded strategy. But in many cases it works. Aipac boasts of the “anti-Israel” or “anti-Semitic” candidates it’s defeated; while trumpeting the pro-Israel Congress it has created. Success leads them to replicate the playbook over and over again.
As I wrote in my last post, the stealth strategy and the hundreds of millions pro-Israel donors dump on such campaigns poison the American electoral system. Most of them are MAGA billionaires.
Thus, wealthy Republican oligarchs are meddling in internal Democratic processes in order to transform the Party into a bunch of pro-Israel automatons.
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