Posted on 11/27/2013 5:10:45 AM PST by SJackson
The fortress, an important site in the Maccabee revolts which Hanukkah commemorates, is located in 'Area A' not under Israeli control.
Tour guides from the Kfar Etzion Field School this week discovered that the Palestinian Authority (PA) has been digging at Beit Betzi, a Hasmonean fortress located between Bethlehem and the Herodion in "Area A." The Hasmonean revolt against the Greek empire is commemorated in the holiday of Hanukkah that begins Wednesday night.
Following the Oslo Accords the site, one of the only existing discoveries from the days of the Hasmoneans, was transfered to PA control.
News of PA digs at the site is particularly of concern given the organization's penchant for rewriting history. In 2011, amid renewed PA digs in Shechem, which the Bible records was bought by Jacob (Yaakov), Hamdan Taha, director of the PA's Department of Antiquities, said the dig would help in “writing or rewriting the history of Palestine.”
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Maccabees? Never were any Maccabbees in the Mideast, nor Jews. This will soon be a Muslim fort.
Why would Pennsylvania do that?? Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
This is disgusting. Nothing, nothing, nothing in Israel should be under pa control. NOTHING.
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We were warned thousands of years ago and we still haven’t learned.
The “middle eastern” PA that is.
Yet in the end, according to “the BOOK” we WIN.
Not surprised, since Hannukah starts tomorrow night, the earlist on record.
bump that.
nazism continues by islamic acceptance.
This is disgusting. Nothing, nothing, nothing in Israel should be under pa control. NOTHING.
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My thoughts exactly. Those animals cannot be trusted.
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