Sunday, 10 February 2019
Tuesday, 22 January 2019
Iran ready to ‘eliminate Israel from Earth,’ air force commander warns
The head of Iran’s air force has warned that Tehran is ready to “confront” and “eliminate” Israel. His fighting words come after Israel launched air raids on alleged Iranian targets inside Syria, killing 4 Syrian soldiers.
Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh, the commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF), issued the provocative statement to the Young Journalist Club news agency, according Iranian media.
“The young people in the air force are fully ready and impatient to confront the Zionist regime and eliminate it from the Earth,” he said. “Our future generations are learning required know-how for the promised day to destroy Israel,” he added.
He stressed that Iran’s high level of military preparedness has deterred the country’s enemies from attacking the Islamic Republic.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his nation’s decision to strike targets inside Syria on Monday, describing the air raid as retribution against those who wish to destroy Israel.
“We are operating both against Iran and against the Syrian forces that are abetting the Iranian aggression,” Netanyahu said in a speech. “We will strike at anyone who tried to harm us. Whoever threatens to eliminate us, bears full responsibility.”
Iran ready to ‘eliminate Israel from Earth,’ air force commander warns
The head of Iran’s air force has warned that Tehran is ready to “confront” and “eliminate” Israel. His fighting words come after Israel launched air raids on alleged Iranian targets inside Syria, killing 4 Syrian soldiers.
Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh, the commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF), issued the provocative statement to the Young Journalist Club news agency, according Iranian media.
“The young people in the air force are fully ready and impatient to confront the Zionist regime and eliminate it from the Earth,” he said. “Our future generations are learning required know-how for the promised day to destroy Israel,” he added.
He stressed that Iran’s high level of military preparedness has deterred the country’s enemies from attacking the Islamic Republic.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his nation’s decision to strike targets inside Syria on Monday, describing the air raid as retribution against those who wish to destroy Israel.
“We are operating both against Iran and against the Syrian forces that are abetting the Iranian aggression,” Netanyahu said in a speech. “We will strike at anyone who tried to harm us. Whoever threatens to eliminate us, bears full responsibility.”
Saturday, 5 January 2019
Wednesday, 26 December 2018
2,000-year-old Ring Found in Pilgrim's Road to Temple Mount
Ring seems to have been found in ritual bath, either slipped off somebody's finger or was forgotten, archaeologists excavating the City of David suggest
It's annoying to lose your precious baubles in a public pool and probably was just as irksome 2,000 years ago too, when a ring seems to have slipped off the finger of an unwary bather in a mikveh. Or maybe it was taken off for the purposes of the ritual purifying bath, and was forgotten there.
It was announced Sunday that the corroded ring, with a blueish stone, was found by Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists who were digging along the stone-paved stepped street, aka the pilgrim's road. By the standards of today's hands, the ring would probably have fit the average pinkie.
The corroded artifact was found in what seems to be the remains of a mikveh, said the archaeologists Nachshon Zenton, Moran Hajabi, Ari Levy and Dr. Joe Uziel. Ancient Jerusalem sported hundreds of ritual baths, not only for locals but to serve pilgrims en route to the Temple.
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