Further adding to the outrage, Elisha Yered, an ultranationalist settler leader and former adviser to a lawmaker in Netanyahu’s governing coalition, defended the spitters, arguing that spitting at Christian clergy and at churches was an “ancient Jewish custom”.
Cleopatra has long been a mysterious and intriguing historical figure,
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump speak during a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House on Feb. 4. Netanyahu is the first foreign leader to visit Trump since he returned to the White House last month.
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Below is the short history that led up to the War of the Jews and Romans. King Herod’s sons were raised in Rome and were close with the children of the Emperor. The Jews lost this war, and lost their temple – that they never saw as their own.
Esau was the FIRST BORN, but Jacob usurped this birthright, thus his name. The Edomites had their own nation, and were despised by the Jews, as were the Samaritans. There was a Jewish Civil War between – kings!
During the Bar Kokhba rebellion, a Jewish temple was built that was destroyed by the Roman when they banished all the Jews in Palestine, because they were very Radical Jewish Zealots, who employed weapons and assassination to get the Romans out of Judea, and elsewhere. This is how the Jews got dispersed – once again! It was a Roman World! Some Jews were anti-Roman. Some Jews, were pro-Roman and enjoyed living amongst them – and the Greeks! The Religious Patriot Jew – ruined it for the Jews who loved Rome. They lost their land – too!
With the annoucement that our President is will to take Gaza by force, employing our Patritoctoc troops, and reamin there for an eternity, you need to know this paragraph by heart, for Israel think tanks have been up all night thinking of ways to depict any AMERICN CITIZEN a Un-Patrtitoc Anti-Semeite, and Satan Enemy of God and Jesus. Thse was made a CUNNING MARRIAGE made on that stage. If there exist the American Gaza Stare, then every American will own dual-Citsenship with Israel. American Patriot will be bid to fight all the ememies of Israel.- forever! Even if a Democrat wins rhw White House! The po[uation of Israel is nine million. What is the population of the United States?
Consider the truth all of Radical Islam will see this holy marriage, as the return of the Crusader. It hs to be annointed Holy by the Zionist Heredin – who spit on Christine Pilgrims.
John The Nazarite
Marc Antony and his ally and wife, Cleopatra, were defeated by Octavian (soon to be the Emperor Augustus) in the naval Battle of Actium off the coast of Greece on this date in 31 BCE, thirteen years after the assassination of Julius Caesar. Antony had appointed Herod “the Great” as king of Jerusalem and the Galilee, which ended the rule of the Maccabees’ descendants, the Hasmonean dynasty. Despite Herod’s alliance with the losing side in the struggle for domination in Rome, he managed to regain and retain his throne under Augustus. Ruling Judea for nearly four decades (according to Josephus), Herod conducted extensive building programs, including expansion of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, known as Herod’s Temple, and the construction of the fortress at Masada. He also expanded Judean territory, as the Hasmoneans had done, through military conquest. He was a murderous, much-despised leader whose claim to being Jewish, let alone king, was constantly disputed by the Sanhedrin and priesthood, but he did practice Judaism (as did numerous “Judaizing” peoples dominated by Judea), at least when he was among “his people.” Herod’s rule led to the undermining of the Sanhedrin’s authority and the switching of popular loyalty to the Pharisees.
Outrage over Jerusalem video of ultra-Orthodox Jews spitting as Christians pass
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Intimidating behaviour beside procession of worshippers seen as another sign of victimisation and was condemned by Netanyahu
AP in JerusalemTue 3 Oct 2023 17.41 EDTShare
A video of ultra-Orthodox Jews spitting on the ground beside a procession of foreign Christian worshippers carrying a wooden cross in the holy city of Jerusalem has ignited intense outrage and a flurry of condemnation in the Holy Land.
The spitting incident, which the city’s minority Christian community lamented as the latest in an alarming surge of religiously motivated attacks, drew rare outrage on Tuesday from the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and other senior figures.
Since Israel’s most conservative government in history came to power late last year, concerns have mounted among religious leaders – including the influential Vatican-appointed Latin Patriarch – over the increasing harassment of the region’s 2,000-year-old Christian community.
Many say the government, with its powerful ultranationalist members, such as the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, and the national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has emboldened Jewish extremists and created a sense of impunity.
“What happened with rightwing religious nationalism is that Jewish identity has been growing around anti-Christianity,” said Yisca Harani, a Christianity expert and founder of an Israeli hotline for anti-Christian assaults. “Even if the government doesn’t encourage it, they hint that there will be no sanctions.”
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Those worries over rising intolerance seem to violate Israel’s stated commitment to freedom of worship and sacred trust over holy places, enshrined in the declaration that marked its founding 75 years ago. Israel captured East Jerusalem in a 1967 war and later annexed it in a move not internationally recognised.
There are roughly 15,000 Christians in Jerusalem today, the majority of them Palestinians who consider themselves living under occupation.
Netanyahu’s office insisted on Tuesday that Israel “is totally committed to safeguard the sacred right of worship and pilgrimage to the holy sites of all faiths”.
“I strongly condemn any attempt to intimidate worshippers, and I am committed to taking immediate and decisive action against it,” he said.https://interactive.guim.co.uk/uploader/embed/2023/04/jerusalem-zip/giv-13425FtWbfz4BN3E7/
The spitting scene, captured on Monday by a reporter at Israel’s left-leaning Haaretz newspaper, shows a group of foreign pilgrims beginning their procession through the limestone labyrinth of the Old City, home to the holiest ground in Judaism, the third-holiest shrine in Islam and major Christian sites.
Raising a giant wooden cross, the men and women retraced the Old City route that they believe Jesus Christ took before his crucifixion. Along the way, ultra-Orthodox Jews in dark suits and broad-brimmed black hats squeezed past the pilgrims through narrow alleyways, their ritual palm fronds for the weeklong Jewish holiday of Sukkot in hand. As they streamed by, at least seven ultra-Orthodox Jews spit on the ground beside the Christian tour group.
Further adding to the outrage, Elisha Yered, an ultranationalist settler leader and former adviser to a lawmaker in Netanyahu’s governing coalition, defended the spitters, arguing that spitting at Christian clergy and at churches was an “ancient Jewish custom”.
“Perhaps under the influence of western culture we have somewhat forgotten what Christianity is,” he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “I think millions of Jews who suffered in exile from the Crusades … will never forget.”
Yered, suspected of involvement in the killing of a 19-year-old Palestinian, remains under house arrest.
While the video, and Yered’s comment, spread like wildfire on social media, the chorus of condemnation grew. Israel’s foreign minister, Eli Cohen, said spitting at Christians “does not represent Jewish values”.
The country’s minister of religious affairs, Michael Malkieli, a member of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, argued such spitting was “not the way of the Torah”. One of Israel’s chief rabbis insisted spitting had nothing to do with Jewish law.
Activists who have been documenting daily attacks against Christians in the Holy Land were taken aback by the sudden wave of government attention.
“Attacks against Christians have 100% increased this year, and not just spitting, but throwing stones and vandalising signs,” said Harani. “Excuse me,” she added, addressing Israeli authorities. “But where were you?”
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