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Marble and mosaics: Byzantine church is opulent tribute to 'glorious martyr'
Ynet, Agencies
Published: 25.10.19, 13:47
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1. Pals claim this site was proof of Pal habitation at that
Alan ,   SA   (10.25.19)
time
2. A lot of history under our feets........
Claudio   (10.25.19)
And the muslims doesn't accept that if there was christians in this land is because Jesus was born here and Jesus was a jew.......and this land is the land of Israel.......
The only true is the reality.
3. Records Probably Exist
Mark ben Josef ,   USA   (10.26.19)
Records about the church probably exist someplace in Turkey, where the Orthodox church is headquartered.
4. Physical Beauty Of Byzantia & Roots Of ugly Anti Semitism
BeautifulHate ,   Jerusalem   (10.26.19)
The Byzantine period was in deed one of physical beauty undeniably so howevercits leaders doctrine and church councils initiated the horrors of institutionalized Religious persecution of the Jew and judaism throughout Eastern and Western Europe disconnecting Its Jewish Roots from its Jewish founders it’s various church councils wood be responsible for the slaughter of millions throughout history to this day Byzantia in the form of the various Orthodox churches Greek Russia Ukrainian still heap curses on the Jews in their Easter liturgies the physical beauty of Byzantine Christianity in the Homeland of the Jew covers up the ugly fall t that for
most of its presence on the land of Israel Jews were forbidden to live in Jerusalem and in Ottoman times Jews who dared to pass by the Church of the Holy Sepulchre were by law allowed to be beaten . I suggest these beautiful mosaics be given to Greece and a Jewish town be built in its place as the Greeks of Saloniki bulldozed the ancient Jewish Cemetery there and built a university over it.. The previous previous
Partriach of Jerusalem to Yasser Arafat “ we share your loathing of the people who killed our lord” ..often beauty is deceiving and Byzantine “ splendor” is one example of it ..
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