Posted on 12/29/2008 11:02:55 AM PST by SmithL
A daily newspaper in Greece has blamed Jews both for the world financial crisis and the Israeli operation in Gaza, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported this week.
"After the American Jews acquired once again the world's wealth and plunged the planet into an unprecedented financial crisis, they started rehearsing for WWIII," JTA quoted the Avriani newspaper's front-page headline as reading Sunday.
"Midway through the paper's story on Israel's operation in Gaza, the story, under the heading 'The Plan,' explains that a Jewish plutocracy, having made the 'wealth of the century at the expense of the economies of the world,' is preparing to put in motion 'war machines' in various hot spots around the world in order to control the price of oil, redistribute the world's natural resources and start a new cycle of weapons production," JTA said.
The paper also blamed U.S. President-elect Barack Obama for "playing dead" . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
I guess the descendants of the Selucids and Byzantines really just can't continence Jewish rule in Israel. Pretty pathetic considering their own experience with the Ottomans.
Jimmeh Cahtah's a Jew?
I think the author confuses Israel with the UN.
“After the American Jews acquired once again the world’s wealth and plunged the planet into an unprecedented financial crisis, they started rehearsing for WWIII,” JTA quoted the Avriani newspaper’s front-page headline as reading Sunday.
“Midway through the paper’s story on Israel’s operation in Gaza, the story, under the heading ‘The Plan,’ explains that a Jewish plutocracy, having made the ‘wealth of the century at the expense of the economies of the world,’ is preparing to put in motion ‘war machines’ in various hot spots around the world in order to control the price of oil, redistribute the world’s natural resources and start a new cycle of weapons production,”
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Looking for a scapegoat. The story goes on to blame the problem not only on Jews but specifically at American Jews. Man, this author hit the jackpot hammering the world’s two great pariahs in one fell swoop. IT’S A TWOFER.
There’s a real spirit of lawlessness in the air now in Greece which I believe will become more pronounced with time.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Ah, the Greeks still holding a grudge about that David and Goliath thing, I see.
(The Philistenese were basically the Greek version of Vikings from the Isle of Crete, I believe.)
And the “NAZI RHETORIC OF THE YEAR” award goes to....
(The Philistenese were basically the Greek version of Vikings from the Isle of Crete, I believe.)
Hunh? I’ve done a number of Bible studies on Samuel and never ran across that particular line of thinking...
I think the Greeks have a lot of Turk in them, after all the Turkish conquerors had their way with the Greek women while the men went with the sheep. I bet if you do a DNA study Greeks and Turks are cousins.
Fantastic.
Not sure it’s much of a Biblical issue; it’s just fact.
The Philistines (”wanderers”) were from the Isle of Crete, or possibly Cypris (or both) (”Caphtor” in Hebrew). They raided all over the Mediterranian, not just Judea.
The Bible is hardly the only recordation of their exploits; they tore the whole area up.
(Think about the word “Philistine” and “Cretin.” Ever wonder why they mean the same thing?)
So why are they referred to as being from Philistia, which was on the Mediterranean, closer to Egypt than Cyprus? And a person from Crete is a Cretan, not a cretin. I’m not convinced.
Well, it’s not my job to convince you, nor do I care.
By the way, “Philistia” is the southern coast of what-was-also-known as-Canaan. There not “from” there any more than I am “from” Mississippi because I lived there as a kid.
From the first google hit:
The Egyptians called them the “Peleset” and appear in the Medinet Habu inscription of Ramesses III[6], where he describes his victory against the Sea Peoples, as well as the Onomasticon of Amenope (late Twentieth Dynasty) and Papyrus Harris I, a summary of Ramesses III’s reign written in the reign of Ramesses IV.
The Philistines occupied the five cities of Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, and Gath, along the coastal strip of southwestern Canaan, that belonged to Egypt up to the closing days of the Nineteenth Dynasty (ended 1185 BC). The Philistines long held a monopoly on iron smithing (a skill they possibly acquired during conquests in Anatolia).
the Philistines formed part of the great naval confederacy, the “Sea Peoples,” who had wandered, at the beginning of the 12th century BC, from their homeland in Crete and the Aegean islands to the shores of the Mediterranean and repeatedly attacked Egypt during the later Nineteenth Dynasty. Though they were eventually repulsed by Ramesses III, he finally resettled them, according to the theory, to rebuild the coastal towns in Canaan.
Papyrus Harris I details the achievements of the reign of Ramesses III. In the brief description of the outcome of the battles in Year 8 is the description of the fate of the Sea Peoples. Ramesses tells us that, having brought the imprisoned Sea Peoples to Egypt, he “settled them in strongholds, bound in my name. Numerous were their classes like hundred-thousands. I taxed them all, in clothing and grain from the storehouses and granaries each year.” Some scholars suggest it is likely that these “strongholds” were fortified towns in southern Canaan, which would eventually become the five cities (the Pentapolis) of the Philistines (Redford 1992, p. 289). Israel Finkelstein has suggested that there may be a period of 25-50 years after the sacking of the Philistine cities and their reoccupation by the Philistines. It is quite possible that for the initial period of time, the Philistines were housed in Egypt, only subsequently late in the troubled end of the reign of Rameses III would they have been allowed to settle Philistia.
The connection between Mycenean culture and Philistine culture was made clearer by finds at the excavation of Ashdod, Ekron, Ashkelon, and more recently Tell es-Safi (probably Gath), four of the five Philistine cities in Canaan. The fifth city is Gaza. Especially notable is the early Philistine pottery, a locally-made version of the Aegean Mycenaean Late Helladic IIIC pottery, which is decorated in shades of brown and black. This later developed into the distinctive Philistine pottery of the Iron Age I, with black and red decorations on white slip known as Philistine Bichrome ware. Also of particular interest is a large, well-constructed building covering 240 square metres (2,600 sq ft), discovered at Ekron. Its walls are broad, designed to support a second story, and its wide, elaborate entrance leads to a large hall, partly covered with a roof supported on a row of columns. In the floor of the hall is a circular hearth paved with pebbles, as is typical in Mycenean megaron hall buildings; other unusual architectural features are paved benches and podiums. Among the finds are three small bronze wheels with eight spokes. Such wheels are known to have been used for portable cultic stands in the Aegean region during this period, and it is therefore assumed that this building served cultic functions. Further evidence concerns an inscription in Ekron to PYGN or PYTN, which some have suggested refers to “Potnia,” the title given to an ancient Mycenaean goddess. Excavations in Ashkelon, Ekron, and Gath reveal dog and pig bones which show signs of having been butchered, implying that these animals were part of the residents’ diet.
Etc.
Well, OK, here is a few links:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/1455076
http://www.crystalinks.com/philistia.html
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_early_palestine_name_origin.php
http://www.rishon-rishon.com/archives/055422.php
Interesting stuff - thanks! BTW, we always called Clovis, NM “West Texas” when I was stationed at Cannon AFB.
Colonel, USAFR
This is from “Der Sturmer” (sorry, I don’t have any umlauts on my keyboard), right?
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