government just authorized an additional $8 billion in funding for Israel. The original tweet was deleted; the $8 billion figure was repeated widely on social media. A video of security services in Azerbaijan arresting a separatist leader was posted multiple times on multiple platforms, claiming ...
was “andurārum”, meaning “free flow”, as in bond servants being free to go back to their family. And that was a cognate to the Hebrew word “deror”. Andurārum, deror. It seems that when the exiled jewish families returned to Israel under the Persian permission they incorporated t...
Their capital was Byblos. By 1000 BC, the cities of Tyre and Sidon had taken center stage. The Phoenicians were conquered by Cyrus the Great in 539 BC. 49. Kingdom of Israel and Judah According to the Bible, the Kingdom of Israel began with King Saul around 1020 BC, with Jerusalem ...
The sequence reveals that Elisabeth was once a big star. Workers sand her name on the sidewalk amid the celebration, and people stop in awe of her name. As the years go by, people comment that she was in some movie they can’t remember, and then someone callously spills garbage on her...
Since the time of the Iranian hostage crisis, Iran has shuffled along in their seventh-century oxcart. They throw gay men off tall buildings, they chop off the hands of shoplifters, and they stone prostitutes to death. They threaten to annihilate Israel, and they are just weeks away from ...
In Israel, the story of John Henry Patterson as the founding father of the Israeli Defence Forces was a revelation about a fascinating character whose life inspired work by Hemingway and Hollywood movies. By coincidence, I was there when his remains were moved from the US to the military ...
important just to not discuss this regardless as ever since quitting and going clean my productivity has shot up somewhere near the 60 to 70% mark and changes are happening right in front of my eyes with little to no effort. It seems apparent now that weed was my jailer for very many ...
28 ·How terrible it will be for [L Woe to] Samaria [C the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel], the pride of ·Israel’s [L Ephraim’s] drunken people! That beautiful ·crown [wreath; garland] of flowers is ·just a dying plant [fading]set on ·a hill above [L...
Israel is a young nation but its people have a long history. The Jews, or Hebrews, first settled on the narrow strip of land at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea about 3 500 years ago. They lost this homeland in Roman times and did not get it back again until a few decades ...
One called for Israel to withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula, which it had conquered from Egypt in the 1967Six-Day War, in exchange for the establishment of full diplomatic relations, whereas the other, more vaguely worded document, called for a “self-governing” Palestinian authority in the Wes...