ISRAEL'S PARADOX: CELEBRATES 70th birthday, and discovers JEWISH COINS from 2000 years ago, from the time of the Jewish Revolt against the Romans in 66-67 CE

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A stash of extremely rare bronze coins from the time of the Jewish Revolt against the Romans has been unearthed in a cave close to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

The bronze coins, which were discovered at the Ophel excavations by Hebrew University archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar, were hidden in the cave during the siege of Jerusalem in the Second Temple era in 66-70CE, according to a press release from the Hebrew University.

 

He said the cave was untouched since that time, essentially making it a "time capsule" of Jewish life during the revolt. Other artifacts including pottery jars and pots were also found in the cave.

The majority of the trove date back to the failed revolt’s final year, known as Year Four (69-70 CE) and are embedded with Jewish symbols, including the four plant species associated with the holiday of Sukkot:  palm, myrtle, citron and willow, and a picture of the goblet used in the Temple service.  The Hebrew inscription reads "For the Freedom of Zion" from the earlier coins and "For the Redemption of Zion" on those from Year Four.


 

Computer-generated image of the Jewish Second Temple in Jerusalem, destroyed by the Romans

The same area today.  The golden dome is a mosque used by Muslim occupiers.

WHO ARE ISRAEL'S MOST DANGEROUS AND DAMAGING ENEMIES?   YOU'D BE SURPRISED.

• Israel is one of a  handful of countries that have remained a distinct nation living in the same territory, with the same people, and revering the same traditions for thousands of years. 
• In addition Israeli Jews observe the same religion they did in antiquity, and they officially use the ancient Hebrew language and alphabet.  
• Between the ancient Biblical kingdoms of Israel and the 1948 Declaration of Independence, Israel was occupied by the Romans (who renamed it Palestine), and starting in the 7th century by Muslim invaders. 
• While many lived in exile, other Jews continued to live in Israel all along.  They and Jewish immigrants in the late 19th century and 20th century managed to reclaim deserts and swamps, thereby creating modern Israel.
• And yet, in spite of Jewish proven history and  continuous presence in Israel, the country is relentlessly singled out for vilification and delegitimization, especially by the United Nations, Muslim countries, and the Left everywhere. 
• Europe and the USA, although using more diplomatic language, also call for Israel's partition of its ancient land to create yet another terrorist Arab country.
• Modern Israel is now celebrating its 70th birthday - a big accomplishment considering that on each of those years - each day, actually - the Jews of Israel are being attacked verbally and physically in one way or another.  
• We are all familiar with the daily instances of Arab terror against Jewish civilians.  Terrorists use knives, vehicles, guns, firebombs, and rocks.  Gazans use rockets and terror tunnels.   
• Iran's Hezbollah militia in Lebanon has more than 150,000 rockets aimed at Israel - more than those of 27 NATO countries combined. 
• Iran's reason for arming itself with nuclear bombs is its declared goal of completely obliterating Israel some day.
• Intending a second Holocaust, Arab countries have already attacked Israel in three major wars:  1948, 1967 and 1973.  Only their current internal problems prevent them from making another attempt.  Their hatred against Jews and Israel is deep, pervasive, and mandated by their sacred religious texts. 
• Those are all fanatical and bloodthirsty enemies.  However, Israel's worst enemies are leftist Jews who have undermined the country from the beginning in their efforts to implement leftist pro-Arab policies.
• Jewish leftist ideology is not only deadly for Israel but also for other western countries.   Leftist Jews are at the vanguard of multiculturalism, open borders, and the dissolution of nation states.  
• In Israel they control most national institutions, including the Supreme Court, which has the right to veto legislation passed by Parliament.
• From their influential posts in international media, academia, entertainment, politics, and pro-refugee organizations leftist Jews weaken the traditional social and political values of nation states.  And this is producing an ever increasing, simmering, and very bitter  backlash with anti-Semitic undertones. 
• All you have to do is glance at readers' comments to news stories about migration to realize how much Jews are being blamed - a convenient target after 2000 years of anti-Semitism.  Even readers of Breitbart - a pro-Israel and conservative website - express much vitriol against liberal pro-immigration Jews.
• History does not repeat itself, but human nature will produce similar patterns under similar circumstances. 
• In the first half of the 20th century many Jews were at the vanguard of Bolshevism.  They were blamed for Communist revolts and disruptions.  Opponents saw them as a threat to their property and way of life.  Then came the Second World War and those same critics became complicit with the Holocaust because they hated the Jews and Communism. 
• Today the hateful anti-Jewish rhetoric is rising.    People are blaming Jews for promoting forced diversity, mass migration, and the dissolution of nation states through open borders. 
• Most US Jews vote Democrat, a party that pursues open borders and legal and illegal mass migration.  And as they court the domestic Arab vote, Democrats are also notorious for their harsher stand against Israel. 
• The election of Donald Trump shows a strong increase of populism in the USA. 
• Former Soviet satellites such as Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic are resisting European Union onslaughts  that force mass migration and open borders, and the conflict is headed for a showdown.     
• Even in Germany and France, where populism is still unorganized, there is growing anti-migration sentiment because of imported crime and violence.  Jews are being blamed for this mass migration and its consequences.
• THE SAD IRONY is that leftist Jews are strong supporters of Muslim immigration, in spite of the fact that Muslims are attacking and killing Jews in Europe just for  being Jews. 
• One of the latest crimes was the murder of a Holocaust survivor in Paris.  This elderly lady was stabbed by a Muslim, and then her body set on fire.  
• Murders of Jews by Muslims are now a too frequent occurrence in Europe.  Children are particularly targeted.
• Jews have been fleeing Europe in the past few years, terrified of this new persecution.  However, leftist Jewish activists continue undeterred to promote more Muslim immigration into the West. 
• Little Israel is also suffering because of ongoing Jewish leftist policies.  It is leftists who promote open borders to welcome more African infiltrators, more Arab empowerment, and the partition of Israel in fraudulent land-for-peace deals.  The left's INSIDIOUS work erodes Israel's chances for survival one bit at the time.
• Israeli Jews who defend the Jewish right to the land are disparaged as fanatics by leftist Jews siding with the descendants of Arab invaders.  
• Leftist Jews are not only betraying Israel, but are complicit with the possible demise of Israel and a new Holocaust.

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BIZARRE MEDIA CONTORTIONS TO BALANCE THEIR OWN REPORTS ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROOF OF JEWISH RIGHT TO ALL OF ISRAEL with media propaganda supporting Arab claims to the land - The media reports on the latest evidence of Jewish kingdoms and bureaucracy in ISRAEL 2,700 YEARS AGO while in other news reports it calls Jews 'occupiers'

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• The silver lining beneath the increasing ugliness and violence of American politics is the unintended exposure of hidden agendas. 
• For instance, while claiming to be fighting fascism, leftists anti-fa groups enthusiastically adopt methods (brown-shirt mob brutality) and ideology (violent enforcement of censorship) from fascism itself.
• In the meantime anti-fa and their sympathisers in the media and political establishment very cleverly call every opponent a racist and a  'Nazi,' thereby justifying physical attacks and even death threats.

• Another narrative full of disturbing contradictions is that of Pro-Palestinian activists. 
• They still cannot explain how  Jews can be called occupiers of historically Jewish land, while Muslims, whose ancestors arrived as conquerors and settlers starting in the 7th century AD, can possibly be regarded as the indigenous owners of the land. 
• It's not just archaeological evidence that legitimizes Jewish ownership of Judea and Samaria, or West Bank as some call it.  There are historical records from long before Arabs had usurped the word Palestinian, attesting that this is Jewish land.   
• The world Palestinian was created by the Romans who, after burning Jerusalem and the Jewish Temple, and slaughtering and slaving much of the Jewish population, decided to erase all evidence of Jews and the kingdoms of Israel and Judea by renaming the land "Palestine". 
• And so, through centuries of Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Ottoman and British occupation, Christians and later on Muslims continued to refer to the land as Palestine until Jews reconstituted their country in 1948.   
• Between the Roman conquest and the new State of Israel there was never another country there. Which country are the Jews occupying the land from?  Jordan occupied it for a while, but Jordan was a creation of the British.  Transjordan, later called the kingdom of Jordan, was built on Jewish land.  It never existed before in history.
• Europe now wants to carve out Muslim Palestine out of ancient Jewish land.  Since Europe can't drop bombs on Israel, they do the next best thing which is to fund vicious anti-Israel propaganda, and contract Arabs out to kill Jews. 
• In the name of humanitarian aid, Germany, France, and the UK, among many other countries, are generous financial contributors to Palestinian terror.   Some Jewish victims are survivors of concentration camps.  Hitler missed killing them, now Europe pays Arabs to finish them off.  

The US and Europe pay millions to the Palestinians, way more per capita than to any other group in the world.   The Palestinian Authority in turn uses that money to indoctrinate children into hating and killing Jews, and then pays terrorists and criminals a monthly salary if they are imprisoned for acts against Israel and the Jews, including murder.  When the perpetrators are killed in action, then the families receive a generous pension.  The terrorists are then glorified as martyrs and have schools and other public places named after them.  Europe and the US condone and finance all this, while they fight Muslim terror at home. 

 

PROBLEM:  WHAT TO DO  WITH THE HISTORICAL RECORD OF JEWISH OWNERSHIP OF THE LAND? 

 

• The mainstream media have hitched their wagon to the Palestinian narrative because many of their advertisers and funders are committed to that cause. 
• So leaving all facts and logic aside, the media denounces what they call the Israeli occupation of Arab land, while at the very same time they continue to publish archaeological and scholarly news that give irrefutable evidence of Jewish history in Israel going back thousands of years. 
• In any other context this media ideological schizophrenia and their contortions to balance two contradictory narratives could be hysterically funny.  In the present context, the media's support for Palestinian murderous 'resistance' makes them accomplices with anti-Semitism and genocide against Jews. 

Clay seals used over 2,700 years ago in Israel's First Temple era reveal the identity of letter senders in the ancient city of Jerusalem

The pro-Palestinian Daily Mail, a reputable center-right British newspaper, temporarily leaves aside its pro-Palestinian stance and reports: 

By Tim Collins For Mailonline 

• Excavations in the City of David National Park uncovered dozens of the seals
• Most evidence of correspondence in the city was destroyed by fire in 586 BC
• Some bear biblical names, several of which are still used today, like Pinchas
• One particularly interesting seal mentions a man named Achiav ben Menachem 

Excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the City of David National Park in Jerusalem uncovered dozens of the seals. This image shows Dr. Joe Uziel, a director of the excavation  

 

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2,700 YEAR OLD JEWISH ROYAL SEAL FROM JUDAH'S KING HEZEKIAH FOUND IN JERUSALEM - It dates from a time when the Jewish kingdom of JUDAH was an ally of EGYPT - The area belonging to the Kingdom of Judah (or Judea) is now being claimed by descendants of Muslims who invaded it in the seventh century

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2,700-year-old royal seal of Judah's 'greatest king' Hezekiah found near Jewish Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

 

The City of David excavations of the Jerusalem Hebrew University on Mount Ophel, at the foot of the southern wall of the Temple Mount compound, have yielded a sensational discovery: a seal (bulla) with the name of King Hezekiah (727-698 BCE).

 

This external evidence further establishes the veracity of the biblical account of the nation of Israel’s empires going back some 3,000 years.

 The seal is oval, with the dimensions of 8.6 by 9.7 mm, impressed on soft clay (Bulla) of 12 by 13 mm, about three millimeters thick. The bulla was used originally to sign a document written on papyrus and kept rolled and tied with thin twine whose subtle marks can be seen on the back of the bulla.   

 

The seal was discovered along with many pottery shards and various figurines and seals.  King Hezekiah’s bulla was discovered in a garbage heap that was dumped during or shortly after Hezekiah’s time, from a royal building that was used to store food. 

This building is part of a series of buildings, including a gate and towers, which were built in the second half of the tenth century BCE (the time of King Solomon), as part of the Ophel fortifications (highlighted in red) of the new government complex that connected the city of David with the Temple Mount.

 

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2000 YEAR OLD JEWISH RITUAL BATH (MIKVAH) DISCOVERED UNDER A HOUSE LIVING ROOM IN JERUSALEM - It was found during house renovations

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I just posted an article on the latest spy-tech gadgets exhibited at the Israeli Spy Expo.  But aside from being a top country in technology and science innovation, Israel also lives with real antiquities from its thousands of years old civilization. 

Two thousand-year old Jewish ritual bath discovered under a Jerusalem home living room 

A two thousand year old ritual bath (mikva) was recently discovered beneath a living room floor during renovations of a private home in the Ein Kerem neighborhood of Jerusalem. 

The mikva, fully complete and quite large, is rock-hewn and meticulously plastered according to the Jewish laws of purity. A staircase leads to the bottom of the immersion pool.

Pottery vessels dating to the Second Temple period (first century CE) and traces of fire that might constitute evidence of the Temple's destruction between 66-70 CE were discovered inside the bath.

In addition, fragments of stone vessels were found. Stone was a common material used during the Second Temple period because it cannot be contaminated and remains pure.

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