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Jerusalem Update

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June 29th 2010
29 June 2010 1616 (GMT +3) Jerusalem, Israel In an effort to lead with my mistakes, in my last post I mislabeled a picture, which I have since gone back and corrected. It was a picture from the Mount of Olives, of a number of stone boxes. I labeled them as sarcophagi when they should have been labeled as ossuaries. The difference is subtle, but a sarcophagus was an ornate coffin ... read more

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Following World War II, the British withdrew from their mandate of Palestine, and the UN partitioned the area into Arab and Jewish states, an arrangement rejected by the Arabs. Subsequently, the Israelis defeated the Arabs in a series of wars without... ... read more