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The tactics employed by the IDF are not meant to defeat resistance forces since the resistance will never cease to exist. This “war” has been, from the start, an opportunity to seize land, displace people, and destroy infrastructure, all under the political cover of the United States and its Western allies.
Yes, if "under the political cover" means "with the ammunition of", the rest of it being superfluous fluff, window dressing, like "war on drugs" can't possibly mean anything. Cover indeed. It's not covered very well, we are still riding on the "veto power" of UN Sec.-Counc., among other things only slightly less absolutist.
Terrible to the neighbors, but not so much as the mosquito on an elephant:
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Israel too little to be able to pose threat to Iran
The criminal Zionist regime may carry out a desperate, limited, and small attack against Iran to say it has responded, but it certainly cannot carry out an attack that is proportionate to the Operation True-Promise II, Major General Jafari added.
Regarding Iran's response to a possible Israeli attack, he stated, “Iran's response depends on the severity of the enemy's attack. If it does something major and considerable, it will definitely be responded severely and this issue has been announced clearly by the military officials of the country.”
“But I assure people with certainty that the criminal Zionist regime will not make any major or significant moves. Anyway, whatever they do is nothing more than a desperate effort,” he underlined.
Here is a determined effort, caught in a roundabout:
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Arab sources reported a missile attack on the US base in Syria's Koniko gas field in northeastern Syria's Deir ez-Zur province.
6 missiles were fired toward the illegal US base, the reports say.
Al Mayadeen reported that at least 4 missiles hit inside the base hosting the US forces.
Eyewitnesses reported that several explosions were heard from inside the US base following the missile attack.
Reports suggest that during this attack, the radar equipment inside the base was destroyed.
There were no immediate reports of possible casualties.
In response to a missile attack on its base in eastern Syria, the US bombed seven villages east of the Euphrates in the suburbs of Deir ez-Zur.
I have one more thing to throw in the fire, for anyone who thinks the recent history before Solomon would have been relevant to him. We found a bigger Oligarchy than I, at least, have noticed elsewhere, which was at the very least "fragile to collapse", which could perhaps very accurately be termed the Mycenean Age. If people knew about this system, then, yes, that could be a motive to erase the memories of it.
Did the eruption on Santorini or Thera affect things significantly, yes, it did. It removed the Minoan influence, because the Myceneans effectively replaced them with their system. Are there any records of existence shortly after the eruption, yes, one can find it mentioned under:
Amenhotep III, r. 1391–1353 or 1388–1351 BC
This is a kettle of fish, because, there are a lot of books from various fields of study that are still unable to pinpoint the eruption itself.
Nothing in art or writing remotely suggests the event that I am aware of.
Here are a few notes culled from a synopsis of synopses:
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The topographic list of Amenhotep III of Kom el-Khetan contains a number of place names in the Aegean region. At the top of the list of Aegean place names are the words kftjw tjn3y3 ("keftiu, Danaitsy"). The toponyms mu-k - '(a, i) -na (" Mycenae ") and ku-ti-r (a, i) (" Kythera ") belong to Mycenaean Greece. From Cretan place names, researchers read 'am (a, i) -ni- š (a, u) as" Amnis "(mentioned in the texts of linear B), and kun-ju-š (a, u) as" Knossos ". Perhaps the names of Festus, Kydonia, Thebes, Messene, Nafplion, Lyctus are also transmitted.
Student tablet BM 5647 contains a list of keftiu names.
He [MacGillivray J. A.] suggests that the Cretans, who are first depicted in Egypt during the reign of Hatshepsut, may have been refugees who survived the eruption of Santorini.
The Egyptians rebuilt the Minoan fleet, and in exchange the Minoans supplied them with goods captured in the tombs of the era of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III.
The heyday of Minoan-Egyptian relations came at the beginning of the rule of the XVIII dynasty in Egypt. The Minoan frescoes in two palaces in Tell el-Daba date back to the Tutmoses era. The seven Theban tombs of this period depict Minoan delegations with gifts.
In these two articles, the author analyzes the change in funeral rites in Crete, caused by political changes traditionally associated with the appearance of the Mycenaean Greeks on the island. She [Preston L.] traces the emergence of new types of burials at Knossos and their gradual spread across the island. These data confirm the exceptional importance of Knossos as the political center of all of Crete. The period of centralized power of the bearers of the new burial culture, concentrated in the Knossos palace, is designated as the final palace period: it lasted from the beginning of the 15th to the beginning of the 14th century. BC NS. (Late Minoan II - Late Mino IIIA).
Opulent tombs were built by the new elite, inspired by the earlier burials known in mainland Greece.
The origin of the first settlers may be evidenced by the use of hexaploid wheat, which is not attested in Greece, but which are found in Catal Höyuk.
The "Minoans" themselves were not "Greek", And it is not that hard to see an abrupt change in burial customs.
They are dominant for about three hundred years, and then for post-Mycenean Greece:
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The new culture that rose in Greece had a critical, revolutionary difference from all the previous ones; it was secular, based on rational thinking, and left the divine element and the priesthood out of it. The epics were not sung in the royal courts anymore but in festivals with open access to all. Scientific ideas were discussed in the agoras and shared with everybody interested in them, making them a basic good. Progress grew at an exponential rate…
However, there were some remnants left of the Minoan culture. The religious games and the Eleusinian mysteries survived in the Greek religious rituals and the robust law systems of the Cretan city-states and Sparta are thought to be relics of the Minoan one (Unfortunately, the undeciphered Minoan writing doesn’t allow the scholars of our days to delve more in the possible similarities and differences between the two cultures).
So, that is the point of saying the Minoans were probably Anatolian and that the real mysteries were Apollo of Luwa, and there must have been a split between an esoteric underground and an official priesthood.
That's just from quickly reviewing the reviews, and, what I am going to add is far too obvious for them.
The achievement by the Minoan culture in its apex when exploded was the domestication of Saffron, Crocus sativa.
What this means is "selection for extra-long stamens".
By using these selected plants with the tools of today, harvest of a kilogram is around four hundred hours of labor.
There are several wild crocuses, such as in the writings of Sargon, it is wild species, which have been used for thousands of years. But they have hardly ever been cultivated.
The only way Crete could have functioned would have meant that once a year, for only about a week of peak harvest, there would be an extremely high demand for labor.
It worked, because modern saffron comes from a single event, all commercial plants are the same species with almost no genetic difference other than small regional phenotypes. The plant is sterile and must be cloned by the gorms. That is what will appear in the Song of Solomon and Jerusalem temple incense:
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In ancient Persia, saffron (Crocus sativus var. haussknechtii now called Crocus haussknechtii by botanists) was cultivated at Derbena and Isfahan in the 10th century BC. There, Persian saffron threads have been found interwoven into ancient Persian royal carpets and funeral shrouds.
The Latin term crocus is certainly a Semitic loanword. It is adapted from the Aramaic form kurkema via the Arabic term kurkum and the Greek intermediate κρόκος krokos, which once again signifies "yellowish".
That's the same "Isfahan" we just discovered in the 1750s. I don't know what it is. They become the largest-producing region, which is why it was originally thought to have been Iranian in origin, which is refuted by genetic study:
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The first signs of saffron cultivation were found in Aegean Bronze Age frescoes from Crete and Santorini, dating back to 1700 to 1500 before the common era (BCE).
The crocuses depicted on the frescoes in Xeste 3 show distinctive similarities with modern cultivated saffron (C. sativus) such as their long and intensively red stigmas overtopping the dark violet petals. These visual characteristics are also found on other artistic representations of crocus flowers on ceramics and cloth (Day, 2011b; Dewan, 2015; Marinatos, 2015). Typical for this time was the syllabic script Linear B (Shelmerdine, 1998). The ideogram (script character) representing saffron shows very long stigmas overtopping three pictured petals (Day, 2011a; Dewan, 2015) matching all afore-mentioned representations as well as today’s cultivated saffron.
Moreover, the previously mentioned Linear B tablets also include information on large amounts of traded saffron, with many dedicated fabric-processing tools found in Akrotiri (Day, 2011a).
In ancient Egypt, Theban tombs of five high officials whose career spanned the time from Queen Hatshepsut through the early reign of Amenophis III (New Kingdom; c. 1480–1380 BCE) depict men carrying textiles to be presented as a tribute. Style of ceilings and wall-paintings in these tombs is Aegean and reflects artistic motifs derived from saffron-colored textiles (Wachsmann and Wachsmann 1987; Barber 1991; Dewan 2015). The individuals appearing in these paintings are dressed in a stylized version of Aegean Bronze Age costumes that resemble those in the Procession Fresco from Knossos (Rehak 1996). The adjacent hieroglyphic inscriptions which appear above those men geographically identifies them as Aegean natives, the Keftiu, which is the Egyptian name for Crete, and describes them as people living in the “Islands in the midst of the sea”...
It's really simple. The domesticated sativa genetics match the frecoes. All modern saffron comes from Crete right before the eruption.
So you'd want to re-build the place. Kind-hearted good-neighborliness may not be the appropriate explanation here. If you were a rich, elite oligarchy in mainland Greece, and, you were looking at the fields of the most expensive thing, what would you do. Start dividing corms probably.
This already is a dispute on a human level. The pagan argument is that the Minoans were a Goddess-heavy culture, which the Myceneans suborned with the male gods of their system.
The Myceneans were so powerfully reactive to the volcano that they don't even mention it. However, their "system", as a cultural sphere, was not invulnerable to numerous minor misfortunes of many kinds.
Saffron is created by the Minoans, monopolized by the Myceneans, and found with Solomon and in Isfahan when they are gone.
Would Solomon have been "wise" enough to know about his own saffron and tin, and what the Queen of Sheba was really about?
Does one get the best story from the Kohen or Levites:
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Ezekiel also distinguishes between altar-priests and lower Levites, but in Ezekiel the altar-priests are sons of Zadok instead of sons of Aaron; many scholars see this as a remnant of struggles between different priestly factions in First Temple times, finding resolution by the Second Temple into a hierarchy of Aaronite altar-priests and lower-level Levites, including singers, gatekeepers and the like.
In later books of the Hebrew Bible, Aaron and his kin are not mentioned very often except in literature dating to the Babylonian captivity and later. The books of Judges, Samuel and Kings mention priests and Levites, but do not mention the Aaronides in particular. The Book of Ezekiel, which devotes much attention to priestly matters, calls the priestly upper class the Zadokites after one of King David's priests. It does reflect a two-tier priesthood with the Levites in subordinate position. A two-tier hierarchy of Aaronides and Levites appears in Ezra, Nehemiah and Chronicles. As a result, many historians think that Aaronide families did not control the priesthood in pre-exilic Israel. What is clear is that high priests claiming Aaronide descent dominated the Second Temple period. Most scholars think the Torah reached its final form early in this period, which may account for Aaron's prominence in Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers.
Well you would get more value from Ezekiel or Kings, whereas the Exodus &c., material, is clearly to justify the Aaronites, particularly over the Amalekites.
As to the value of saffron, comparatively, these are pagan references on it:
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The saffron dye & spice obtained from the three female style of each bloom had a value greater than jewels or precious metals, causing it to become the most widespread cultivar in the ancient world, from at least millenium before the rise of Athens.
During the Eleusian Mysteries, initiates by the thousands honored the godling Krokos as an ancestral divinity of some consequence, first to have dwelt among the brackish rivers & inlets of the Rhiti district near Athens. There was a guarded ceremony which was known as the krokosis, the importance of which was never revealed to outsiders, though practiced into the Christian era.
All crocuses were sacred to Demeter & Persephone, with the Saffron symbolic of the death of the world, the white-crocused mantle being snow upon Demeter's sad shoulders, & spring's Golden Crocus representing the joy of Demeter. Of these, however, only the deathly Saffron Crocus possessed the sacred spice.
The saffron spice became best identified with Eos or Aurora in classical antiquity, but the flower itself belonged formost to the Furies, & to Demeter & Persephone or Black Aphrodite.
In Greece & Rome she came to be identified as Eos or Aurora the Goddess of the Dawn, with herself, her throne, her sacred robes, even her wedding bed, all the color of gold & saffron.
Ovid among others called Eos the "Saffron mother," & many ancient poets allude to her rosy-red (saffron-dyed) fingers.
There is a mystical attachment to Saffron Eos who harmonizes Fire & Water, being as she is both Light & Dew, dwelling in a world that Night readied for Day. This harmony is at the base of many mystical systems of religion. The myths of of Eos falling in love with such mortals as Kephalos, Orion, Kleitos & Tithonos preserves an echo of this ancient idea that Eos is the source of mortal enlightenment. She was simultaneousy a Goddess of erotic love, & was said to spend her nights with a series of mortal lovers, her saffron being a mighty aphrodisiac.
That she was the kidnapper of such lovers as Tithonos & Kephalos, rather than their seducer, reveals an aggressiveness like unto that of Zeus who raped women in sundry guises without bothering to win them with his charms. When Zeus tricked Europa the mother of Minoa into coupling, he first took the form of a gentle bull & breathed saffron spice from his nostrils.
Eos herself was as a rule sexually out of control because of her saffron nature, without which she would neither have loved nor illuminated mortals.
Many of Nyx's daughters were associated with the morning sun, notably the Hesperides who dwelt far away on an island beneath which Eos had her bed, guarding the Golden Apples of the Sun.
In Phoenicia, the place of Carthage named for Kar, the edible saffron corm as well as some of the spice was pounded & cooked to make sacramental crescent-cakes for the goddess Ashtoreth (or Ashtaroth), whose name in Greek became Astarte, & in earlier Syria, Canaan, & Israel she was Anath, who is alluded to in the book of Jeremiah, a native of Anathoth ("Daughers of Anath").
...the Cretan role of the Corybantes or Curetes in protecting the infant Zeus, who was said to have been fashioned entirely of saffron, or to have the odor of saffron in his infancy.
Cretan Zeus was chosen to be a sacrificial grain-god (just as Athaliah intended to sacrifice Joash, whose Yahwist cult not coincidentally had its Temple founded by Solomon upon a Threshing-floor purchased by David). Zeus was hidden in a sacred Cave (Joash in the Temple) where he was nursed by the Goat-goddess Amalthea (akin to Joash's nurse who was hidden with Joash in the ruined Temple). Her biblical name was Kerenhappuch, "Horn of Kohl," Kohl being a common eye cosmetic. The horn was thought to be the same as "Amalthea's Horn," the horn of a she-goat, hence Amalthea is Karenhappuch's name in the Septuagint & the pseudonpegraphic Testament of Job.
Lucrecius likewise speaks of these Curetes as defenders of infant Jupiter against Saturn. He says they were both Cretan & Phrygian, & were the armed guard of "the Mighty Mother," vis, Cybele, tramping warlike over the mountains as She rode in her lion-drawn chariot. He said they went about "With flowers fallen like snow upon the Mother & her bands of companions," reminiscent of the white snow-crocuses that formed Demeter's mantel. These snowfall flowers may well have been both autumn & spring crocuses which were the source of the bee's honey that was brought to the cavern to feed infant Zeus. Virgil explicitely states that Saffron flowers were essential for the maintenance of these sacred bees. The bees were themselves armed warriors that loved flowers, even as were the Curetes.
The magic of the Crocus & its association with the birth & sustenance of infant Cretan Zeus survived in later myths of the adult Zeus & his bride Hera. When they made love upon a river bank, as told to us in the Iliad, a bed or saffron crocuses rose up around them in full bloom. The saffron spice that issued from these crocuses was a "golden dew" so bright that had anyone passed by the riverside nuptial bed of the God & Goddess, all that would have been seen was the shimmering light.
That plant summarizes everything about Solomon's world, leaving us room to suspect, why would anyone be interested in altering pre-Solomonic history by replacing it with Genesis, which is rather more directly attached to "a class of functionaries" replacing the Davidic priests.
