Israel’s military success in Lebanon and the strings Gulf patrons attached to reconstruction money forced Hezbollah to cut its losses and acquiesce to the election of a president it had vetoed for 802 days: Lebanese Armed Forces Commander Joseph Aoun. The new president promised the state would hold the monopoly on arms – code for disarming Hezbollah – and vowed “positive neutrality” in the Arab-Israeli conflict, signaling a return to the 1949 truce with Jerusalem.
“Holy War: Rome And The Jews” Excerpt 1
Peloni: As a follow-up to our publication of excerpts from Joseph Shellim’s “Philistine-To-Palestine”, we are happy to be able to present a series of excerpts from his informative “BEN HUR II – EXILE” [aka “HOLY-WAR: ROME AND THE JEWS“. Below is the first installment.
Joseph Shellim
HOLY WAR – APRIL 70 AD/CE – DAWN.
TEMPLE LOCATION.
Mount Moriah is the name of the elongated north-south stretch of land lying between The Kidron Valley and the “Hagai” Valley, between Mount Zion to the west and the Mount of Olives to the east. [103]
‘Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in Mount Moriah, where [the LORD] appeared unto David his father; for which provision had been made in the place of David, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite’. — [2 Chronicles Chapter 3] [104] “The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.” – Benjamin Disraeli.
