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To: FarCenter
While I was assigned to the UN Truce Supervisors in the Middle East, I spent a couple of days in Gaza. This was in the middle of the second Intifada, so there was lot of tire burning/rock throwing and some scattered gunfire nearby but the UN Villa on the beach was this little haven of tranquility and beach.

While I was walking nearby, I spotted a line in the sand cliffs and moved a small amount of sand to see what was there - It was an ancient piece of marble floor which obviously went further back into the hill and there were a couple of bronze arrowheads and small bits of pottery and glass.

There is history everywhere you look in that neck of the woods.

8 posted on 09/20/2022 7:27:31 AM PDT by Chainmail (Harrassment, to be effective, must be continuous.)
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To: Chainmail

When Solomon married Pharaoh’s daughter when he first became King of Israel, Pharaoh attacked Gaza, then occupied by the Philistines, and burned it to the ground, then he gave it to Solomon as a ‘wedding present’.

It hasn’t improved much since..................


12 posted on 09/20/2022 7:48:23 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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