The Arab World’s Waning Sympathy for the Palestinians
It will have an effect on Western opinion, too.
August 29, 2016
Scotland and the Bar Kokhba Revolt
A mysterious fort and a hidden connection.
Archaeologists have long known that a fort once stood on the Scottish hill of Burnswark, and that large numbers of Roman soldiers once encamped on either side of it. Recently, they have become more certain of what occurred there: a massive Roman assault that marked the beginning of an invasion of the country in the year 140 CE. Part of the evidence involves the Bar Kokhba revolt, in which, a few years earlier, Rome crushed the last hopes of renewed Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel. Willie Johnston writes:
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Turkey’s Sham Intervention in Syria
It wants to crush the Kurds, not Islamic State.
The Far Left Chases out Jews Who Won’t Renounce Israel
Opposing Israel for what it is, not what it does.
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Scotland and the Bar Kokhba Revolt
A mysterious fort and a hidden connection.