Yeah, acceptance is key when it hits - doesn't make it easier though

Yeah, me too - imagine a world without that endless drag on everything

Reminder It's always clear how, why, and when wars begin It's never clear how, why, or when they end

No amount of self-debasement is too great if it helps sustain self-deception

It's precisely because a 'becoming' European has occurred; people dislike in others what they dislike within themselves Greece is more levantine than European Athens is more Beirut than Berlin

This outlines the thesis of the new book The New Byzantines — discussion will follow after the war, as it's hard to delve deeper at the moment

It was reaffirmed that the State of Israel remains committed to freedom of religion for all faiths and to maintaining the status quo at Jerusalem's holy sites

It was clarified that the incident arose from security concerns tied to the ongoing threat of missile attacks from the Iranian terror regime against Israel's civilian population, following earlier incidents

A call was placed to the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, to convey great sorrow over this morning's regrettable incident in the Old City of Jerusalem, in which

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Today the energy embedded in products around people is much, much higher than in 1973 The West carries excessive debt, making it effectively impossible to combat stagflation

In 1973 the oil embargo lasted five months and helped spark a decade of stagflation. The world was far less globalized and goods were sourced locally

In Aramaic the definite article is a suffix: "-a" (or "-o" in Syriac). So alah-a would be "the God" or aloh-o Jesus spoke Aramaic; the Aramaic word for God is Alaha

Many comments are missing a key point: "Al" in Arabic is the definite article "the". "The God" would be "al ilah", which contracts to Allah

The war ended eight years later

support, invaded southern Iran in 1980 to seize a disputed area, assuming it would be a "matter of days" while Iran was "weakened" by the revolution

For those with short memories or little historical curiosity, a reminder that Saddam, with U.S.

Continuing the thread... Wars: beginnings are usually known — how, why, and when they start. Endings are often unknown — how, why, and when they finish

Israel too: ישר / שרה — to struggle, strive אל — God "Jihad" means "struggle" "Mein Kampf" means "my struggle" Accepting the same comparison twice exposes the mistake

Would Arwad, Latakia, or Haifa be considered less Phoenician than Byblos? Being pro-Phoenician while opposing the SSNP appears inconsistent