The New York Times is casting doubts on the location of the Temple. You know the one where the wall still exists and is one of the holiest places in the Jewish tradition.
According to the article:Within Jerusalem’s holiest site, known as the Temple Mount to Jews and the Noble Sanctuary to Muslims, lies an explosive historical question that cuts to the essence of competing claims to what may be the world’s most contested piece of real estate.
The question, which many
books and scholarly treatises have never definitively answered, is where on the
37-acre site, home to Islam’s sacred Dome of the Rock shrine and Al Aqsa
Mosque, was the precise location of two ancient Jewish temples, one built on
the remains of the other, and both long since gone.
Those temples are integral to
Jewish religious history and to Israel’s
disputed assertions of sovereignty over all of Jerusalem. Many Palestinians,
suspicious of Israel’s intentions for the site, have increasingly expressed
doubt that the temples ever existed — at least in that location. Many Israelis
regard such a challenge as false and inflammatory denial-ism.
“This is a very politically
loaded subject,” said Matthew J. Adams,
Dorot director of the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in
Jerusalem. “It’s also an academically complex question.”
This is the kind of thing I expect to hear from Reverend Wright or Al Sharpton or David Duke or Barack Obama. You know. Anti-Semites from the get go. It is part of the denial of the reality of Israel and the claim of the Jewish people to their historic homeland. Part and parcel of the current attempt to delegitimatize Israel and to destroy them as a nation and a race. The Big Lie to coin a phrase.
I mean they don't even believe the Wall exists! Who are do they think they are? Roger Waters?
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Walter Duranty brought back a copy of "How To Airbrush History" by Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, which still rests beside the Times Style Manual.
The Times is correct. The Great Temple was built in Great Neck by stout burgers who, when asked how they were doing, replied, "I'm comfortable, kinehora."
Roger is an asshole of the first water.
Many Palestinians doubt the Holocaust, too.* Who cares.
*(Despite being led by someone who collaborated with it).
The real Nazis fled to Argentina, but what everyone else does know is that the architect of post-New Deal Republicans, William F. Buckley, said these things:
A 1957 editorial written by Buckley, “Why the South Must Prevail” (National Review, 8/24/57), cited the “cultural superiority of white over Negro” in explaining why whites were “entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas where [they do] not predominate numerically.”
(...)
A 1960 National Review editorial supported South Africa’s white minority rule (4/23/60): “The whites are entitled, we believe, to preeminence in South Africa.”
So feel free, William, to do everyone the favor of explaining how anti-Nazi those statements and sentiments are.
After WWII, many of the most vile Nazis fled to America where they founded the Republican Party. Everyone knows these simple facts.
Abraham Lincoln, perhaps the greatest 19th century Democrat, led the American struggle against slavery. Lincoln also denounced miscegenation (according to one well researched biopic) which of course made him the first gay-friendly POTUS.
Everyone knows these simple facts.
The "fact" that Lincoln had a high-pitched voice also supports the theory that he was gay and also a willing bottom for the likes of Hillary!
Did I leave anything out?
He was obviously a progressive, as was T.R. - his co-statue on Mount Rushmore. People seem to think that just because Buckley made the Republicans a "conservative" party (in a strange, American sense) after Nixon that they were always thus. Not true. Doesn't history interest you at all? Do you think that party platforms are set in eternal stone? If they were then they'd never need those fleets of consultants and focus groups to tell them what to stand for with every election cycle. Just because Hillary's pretty obvious with this doesn't mean most everyone else isn't also. It also takes some severe intellectual malice to pretend that today's Republicans are a lot less "liberal" than Reagan was. After all, Reagan at least recognized that he was operating in a two-party system. Today's Republicans don't.
I am progressive, R&B. That's why I favor Fiorina at this point. That would mean real progress.
I was just reading about Juba II's Arabia, circa 4 AD, long gone but much quoted by the ancients. He is believed to have included an appendix on Assyria which started me thinking of Ashurbanipal's grand library at Ninevah. Most of it now is a jumbled mess of unintelligible tablets in The British Museum, but Sargon's relatively intact Annals describes areas he conquered, including Judah, and populations he moved. Ashurbanipal himself was an aggressive collector and cruel conqueror, so histories of much of the Middle East were probably at Ninevah. I choose to believe that the ISIS destruction of Nineveh over the last year is to destroy any remaining evidence of the Jewish claim to Jerusalem. (I must confess, I don't believe ancient or even centuries old claims to any territory are worth a hill of beans, but do recognize that many powerful entities disagree.) BTW, Juba II wrote most of his geography and history of Arabia while in Cappodocia were he met and married the widowed daughter in law of Herod the Great. He must have had terrific sources. She divorced him for another of Herod's sons about the time Juba packed up to return to his kingdom Mauritania.
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