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30 september 2014 14:26 |
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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Johan Bollen
(Bericht 7343320)
”We used the term [Khorasan] inside the government, we don’t know where it came from….All I know is that they don’t call themselves that.”
Zeker toevallig dan dat die term slaat op wat nu Iran is? Zie kaart middeleeuwen.
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Iran is het doelwit/doeleinde. Aangewende terminologie en namen van militaire operaties verraden meer dan eens de werkelijke doelstellingen en de achterliggende de ideologie...
Biblical names have been used in almost 40% of Israeli military operations, according to Gavriely-Nuri.
She pinpoints Operation Wrath of God, a secret operation of "targeted killings" of those alleged to be involved in the hostage-taking and massacre of Israeli athletes in the 1972 Olympics.
Gavriely-Nuri writes: "The Wrath of God designation turns the military operation into a kind of a divine punishment and soldiers into missioners committed to doing God’s will.
Aspects of the associated human decision making and human actions get lost along the way."
Biblical names are also given to more humanitarian operations, such as Operation Moses in 1984, which brought 8,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 1984.
In a sixteen-day military operation carried out by the IDF in southern Lebanon was known as "Operation Grapes of Wrath" - a reference to the Book of Revalations.
Operations in Gaza have had names including Operation Noah's Ark - the targeting of a ship carrying 50 tons of weapons to the Gaza Strip - and Operation Days Of Penitence, an offensive in the towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia and Jabalia refugee camp, believed to be launching sites of Qassam rockets, resulting in the deaths of between 104 and 133 Palestinians and five Israelis.
The Biblical name refers to the days preceding the Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur.
The most infamous Israeli operation in recent times was the bloody Operation Cast Lead bombing and ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, resulting in at least 1,200 Palestinian and 13 Israeli deaths.
"Cast Lead" is believed to be a reference to the Jewish festival of Chanucah, the winter festival of lights. A game is played with a spinning top, known as a dreidel, traditionally made from cast lead.
A song about a dreidel made from cast lead is a traditional Jewish folk tune.
Name ‘Protective Edge’ doesn’t cut it
http://www.timesofisrael.com/name-pr...doesnt-cut-it/
Operation Pillar Of Defense In Gaza: What Is The Biblical Meaning Behind The Name?
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012...n_2135806.html
Name of Israel’s anti-Hamas operation has biblical meaning
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/1...lical-meaning/
The angel of God who was going before the Israelite army moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from in front of them and took its place behind them,” reads the passage in the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible.
"It came between the army of Egypt and the army of Israel,” the passage continues. "And so the cloud was there with the darkness, and it lit up the night; one did not come near the other all night.”
The idea of the cloud pillar refers to both physical and spiritual protection, according to Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld, who leads Ohev Sholom, the National Synagogue in Washington.
“The spiritual message here is about praying to God for protection,” said Herzfeld, who heads an Orthodox congregation. “In Exodus, the pillar of cloud is spiritual protection of the Israelis.”
Herzfeld said the biblical reference would be instantly recognizable to the many Israelis who have had Jewish educations.
The phrase also appears in the Bible’s Book of Psalms, in a verse that says God spoke to Hebrew leaders like Moses, Aaron and Samuel “in the pillar of cloud.”
Israel’s choice of Hebrew words has provoked some criticism online.
"By calling this operation 'Pillar of Cloud,' the IDF are, in a sense, calling themselves God,” tweeted @joshua_eaton, whose Twitter bio describes him as a journalist covering religion and politics. “And they act like they believe that, too."
A blogger for the website Gawker, meanwhile, said that calling the Israeli operation a “pillar of cloud” evoked “an all-powerful, vengeful God seeking to demonstrate the primacy of his chosen people, to guide them in their affairs, and to confound their enemies.”
“Did Israel launch this attack because there was no other rational route to maintain its security?” asked the Gawker blogger, John Cook. “Or was it pursuing a broader agenda rooted in ancient mysticism?”
The IDF’s Buchman said he contacted Cook to challenge his interpretations, saying the Israeli military merely wanted to stress what he called the operation’s defensive nature.
“Inside the Bible,” Buchman said, “the cloud was defined as (following people that were) leaving and running away from a full army that had enslaved it.”
Buchman noted that previous IDF operations have also used biblical references.
In 2002, he said, the IDF used the name “Operation Noah’s Ark” for the seizure of a Palestinian vessel loaded with rockets, missiles and explosives.
And a 2008 IDF operation in Gaza was called “Operation Cast Lead,” which began during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah and references a popular Hanukkah song. Name your military operation. A guide
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/pen-u...emium-1.480130
Israel Names Its New War After Biblical Story About God Terrorizing Egyptians
http://gawker.com/5960562/israel-nam...zing-egyptians
So that's what a Pillar of Cloud is: A worldly instantiation of an all-powerful, vengeful God seeking to demonstrate the primacy of his chosen people, to guide them in their affairs, and to confound their enemies. And that's what the people who conceived and executed this wave of strikes against Hamas officials and Gazan civilians chose to call them. If anyone was worried about the increasing religious and ethnic fanaticism of the Israeli leadership, they should still be worried. Did Israel launch this attack because there was no other rational route to maintain its security? Or was it pursuing a broader agenda rooted in ancient mysticism? Voor alle duidelijkheid:
THOSE MYSTERIOUS PILLARS : BOAZ and JACHIN
http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.co...onwilliam.html
To summarize this topic of the two twin pillars, we must learn to open our minds and hearts to all of mankind, to remember that each and every person on this earth of ours needs championship, understanding, inspiration, and above all, the love and guidance of our Supreme Architect.
To attempt to understand what the original intentions of these two pillars were designed to symbolize is lost somewhere in the chronicles of unwritten history dating to the emanation from the prehistoric era. And as the pillars of Boaz and Jachin do inhabit one designated position or another in our Lodge rooms, the inspirations which are represented by the "Pillar of fire" and the "Pillar of cloud", should teach us, as it did Moses, that although we may seem to be retracing our old footsteps, that it may appear we are only going in endless circles no matter what we do, even though our impression may be that the world is; "coming apart at the seams". And as how the Children of Israel were led through the Red Sea by a miraculous east wind, so should we ever remember that God promises to watch over us with grace and love and how He will redeem us into His own house at the end of our earthly existence.
In relation to these two pillars as representing parallels of mankind, we should study the illustration of their ornamental adornments. The lily, and the retired situation in which it flourishes, teaches us that we must learn to open our minds and hearts to all of mankind, to retain the fact, in our compassion, that as one pillar only serves to support the other, we are also obligated, and should offer our support, not only to the brother who may have stumbled and fell by the by the wayside of life but to the aggregate of all mankind; to offer help, aid and assistance to those who may be in dire need; to make that total concentrated effort to add to, and not subtract from, the whole of human existence. Beetje off topic en wat lang, maar interessant. |
