April 2015 AD
Jewish-owned
Mamilla Pool Holocaust
All but whitewashed from history,
Wikipedia, our "modern source for history",
tells us that a large number of Christians were massacred at Jerusalem's Mamilla Pool.
Of critical importance, this whitewash of history fails to say exactly
who killed the Christians, but the article certainly implies that
Persians did the massacre, since the article identifies Persians as the
force who captured Jerusalem.
By the way, in those days, Persians were not YET Muslims, so there can
be no laying this at the feet of Islam. A few decades later in 637 AD,
absolutely, but not in 614 AD.
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Wikipedia:
Mamilla Pool
Byzantine period
Following the Persian capture of Jerusalem from the Byzantines in 614, a large number of Christians were massacred at the pool
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Update: June 10, 2018, Wikipedia does, at this moment, identify the Jews as the ones performing the heartless genocide on the Christian Martyrs.
So there was a "Persian capture of Jerusalem" and then there was "A large number of Christians massacred"
Wiki cannot be wrong, so it follows that the pagan Zorasterian Persians killed the Jews, right?
Except that this is just an elitist way of lying.
As in anything involving the "Jewish: city of Jerusalem, you have to
dig deeper to get a real understanding of events back in 614 AD.
The truth of the matter is that the massacre of the Christian
inhabitants of Jerusalem was totally done by Jews and contrary to
implications in Wikipedia, it was Persians who were the ones who
finally shut down this Holocaust of Christians from continuing.
Massacre at Mamilla
The Jerusalem Post
3/2/2006
Completely overlooked
in the current media frenzy about building the Museum of Tolerance atop
the millennium-old Ma'amun Allah Cemetery is the site's forgotten
history as the killing field of 614.
In that year, nearly
three centuries of prosperity under the Byzantine empire were shattered
by Persia's Sassanid Shah Khosrau II, known as Parvez - the Victorious.
Local Jews together
with their co-religionists in Babylonia allied with the Zoroastrian
invaders to defeat the Christian rulers.
Seeking revenge for generations of persecution, the Jews destroyed hundreds of churches and monasteries.
James Parkes described the ensuing slaughter in his book, A History of Palestine from 135 AD to Modern Times:
"In 614 they took Jerusalem after a siege lasting only 20 days."
There is no doubt that
the Persians received substantial help from the Jews of Galilee. One
chronicler mentions a figure of 20,000 Jewish soldiers, another 26,000.
While the actual figures are as unreliable as all ancient figures,
there is no reason to question the fact that the Jews aided the
Persians with all the men they could muster, and that the help they
gave was considerable.
"Once Jerusalem was in
Persian hands a terrible massacre of Christians took place, and the
Jews are accused of having taken the lead in this massacre.
It would not be
surprising if the accusation were true, even though the fantastic
stories told of Jewish revenge by Christian chroniclers are certainly
exaggerated."
How many Christian prisoners of war were murdered by the Mamilla Pool?
A precise number is of
course now impossible to verify, but Israeli archaeologist Ronny Reich
puts the tally at 60,000 before the Persian military stopped the
carnage. One eyewitness, Strategius of St. Sabas, wrote:
"Jews ransomed the
Christians from the hands of the Persian soldiers for good money, and
slaughtered them with great joy at Mamilla Pool, and it ran with
blood."
Persian rule in the Land of Israel lasted 14 years.
The Byzantines briefly
returned to a country in ruins in 628, only to face the formidable army
of Muhammad's friend Omar ibn Khattab.
One cannot understand
the Sulha al-Quds - the treaty of Jerusalem's capitulation concluded in
638, without remembering the massacre at Mamilla a generation earlier.
Patriarch Sofronius demanded, and the powerful Arab ruler agreed, to protect the people of Jerusalem from the ferocity of the Jews.
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Notice that the Jews aligned with PAGAN Zorasterains from Persia to
destroy Christians in 614 AD. A generation later, in 639 AD, they would
align with MUSLIM Arabs to destroy Christians.
Exactly like intolerant Muslims who destroy all remnants of other
civilizations, the victorious Jews destroy every remnant of
Christianity they could in the city of Jerusalem.
At least Muslims turn the churches into Mosques.
Jews on the other hand are total scorched earth descendants of Saul who
also wiped out any remnants of previous enemies of the Jews.
" In 614
local Palestinian Jews allied with their Babylonian co-religionists and
assisted the Persians in their conquest of the Holy Land. 26,000 Jews
participated in the onslaught.
In the aftermath of the Persian victory, the Jews perpetrated a massive holocaust of the Gentiles of Palestine.
They burned the churches and the monasteries, killed monks and priests, burned books.
Some of the many churches destroyed were:
- The beautiful basilica of Fishes and Loaves in Tabgha,
- The Ascension on the Mount of Olives,
- St Stephen opposite Damascus Gate and
- The Hagia Sion on Mt Zion
- The Great Laura of St Sabas,
tucked away in the bottomless Ravine of Fire (Wadi an-Nar) was saved by
its remote location and steep crags.
- The Church of the Nativity
miraculously survived: when Jews commanded its destruction, the
Persians balked. They perceived the Magi mosaic above the lintel as the
portrait of Persian kings."
The Church of the Nativity was saved by the depiction of the three wise men from Persia in the East.
Christian men of fighting age had died in battle. The only souls left
at Mamilla Pool were old men, women and children. None had deserved
revenge for none had taken Jerusalem from the Jews, that deed done by
the Pagan Roman Empire. These were largely the descendants of the
people who came to listen to Jesus Christ at the Sermon on the Mount --
fellow Jews who followed Christ.
They did not deserve to die, and yet even worst than the Jews did to
Caanites occupying their Promised Land, these Jews did to fellow Jews
in their Promised Land.
As for the actual massacre, pick your level of credibility in the historians.
Massacre Take 1:
Mild
Jewish historian Ronny Reich
The Israeli archaeologist Ronny Reich writes:
"They
were probably sold to the highest bidder. According to some sources,
the Christian captives at Mamilla Pond were bought by Jews and were
then slain on the spot."
Massacre Take 2:
Bold
Oxford Professor Henry Hart Milman
The Oxford Professor Henry Hart Milman's History of the Jews describes it in stronger terms:
"It
had come at length, the long-expected hour of triumph and vengeance;
and the Jews did not neglect the opportunity. They washed away the
profanation of the holy city in Christian blood. The Persians are said
to have sold the miserable captives for money. The vengeance of the
Jews was stronger than their avarice; not only did they not scruple to
sacrifice their treasures in the purchase of these devoted bondsmen,
they put to death all they had purchased at a lavish price. It was a
rumour of the time that 90,000 perished."
Massacre Take 3:
Fiery
Christian Strategius of St. Sabas
An eyewitness to the massacre, Strategius of St Sabas, was more vivid:
"Thereupon
the vile Jews… rejoiced exceedingly, because they detested the
Christians, and they conceived an evil plan. As of old they bought the
Lord from the Jews with silver, so they purchased Christians out of the
reservoir…
How many souls were slain in the reservoir of Mamilla!
How many perished of hunger and thirst!
How many priests and monks were massacred by the sword!
How many maidens, refusing their abominable outrages, were given over to death by the enemy!
How many parents perished on top of their children!
How many of the people were brought up by the Jews and butchered, and became confessors of Christ!
Who can count the multitude of the corpses of those who were massacred in Jerusalem!’
Strategius estimated the victims of the holocaust at 66,000.
Mamilla Pool
Things move really fast nowadays. Just yesterday we hardly dared to
call the Israeli policy of official discrimination against Palestinians
by the harsh word ‘apartheid’. Today, as Sharon’s tanks and missiles
pound defenceless cities and villages, the word barely suffices. It has
become an unjustified insult to the white supremacists of South Africa.
They, after all, did not use gun-ships and tanks against the natives,
they did not lay siege to Soweto. They did not deny the humanity of
their kaffirs. The Jewish supremacists made it one better. They have
returned us, as if by magic wand, to the world of Joshua and Saul.
As the search for the right word continues, the courageous Robert Fisk
proposes calling the events in Palestine a ‘civil war’. If this is
civil war, a lamb slaughter is a bullfight. The disparity of forces is
just too large. No, Virginia, it is not ‘civil war’, it is creeping
genocide.
This is the point in our saga, where the good Jewish guy is supposed to
take out his hanky and exclaim: “How could we, eternal victims of
persecutions, commit such crimes!” Well, do not hold your breath
waiting for this line. It happened before and it can happen again, for
the mad idea of being the only Chosen ones, the idea of supremacy,
whether of race or religion, is the moving force behind genocides. If
you believe God chose your people to dominate the world, if you think
others but subhuman, you will be punished by the same God whose name
you took in vain. Instead of a gentle frog, he would turn you into a
murderous maniac.
When the Japanese got a whiff of this malady in the 1930s, they raped
Nanking and ate the liver of their prisoners. Germans, obsessed by the
Aryan superiority complex, filled Baby Yar with corpses. As thoughtful
readers of Joshua and Judges, the father pilgrim-founders of the United
States tried on the ‘Chosen’ crown and succeeded in nearly
exterminating the Native American peoples.
The Jewish chosen-ness led to genocide time and again. Outside of
Jerusalem’s Jaffa gate (Bab al-Halil), there was once a small
neighbourhood called Mamilla, destroyed by real-estate developers just
a few years ago. In its place they created a kitschy ‘village’ for the
super-rich, abutting the plush Hilton Hotel. A bit further away there
is the old Mamilla cemetery of the Arab nobles and the Mamilla Pool, a
water reservoir dug by Pontius Pilate. During the development works,
the workers came upon a burial cave holding hundreds of sculls and
bones. It was adorned by a cross and the legend: ‘God alone knows their
names’. The Biblical Archaeology Review, published by the Jewish
American Herschel Shanks, printed a long feature[i] by the Israeli
archaeologist Ronny Reich on this discovery.
The dead were laid to their eternal rest in AD 614, the most dreadful
year in the history of Palestine until the Twentieth Century. The
Scottish scholar Adam Smith, wrote in his Historical Geography of
Palestine: “until now, the terrible devastation of 614 is visible in
the land, it could not be healed”.
By 614 Palestine was a part of the Roman successor state, the Byzantine
Empire. It was a prosperous, predominantly Christian land of
well-developed agriculture, of harnessed water systems and carefully
laid terraces. Pilgrims came in flocks to the Holy places. The
Constantine-built edifices of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives and
of the Holy Sepulchre were among the man-made wonders of the world. The
Judean wilderness was enlivened by eighty monasteries, where precious
manuscripts were collected and prayers offered. The Fathers of the
church, St Jerome of Bethlehem and Origen and Eusebius of Caesarea,
were still a living memory. One of the best Palestinian writers, on a
par with the Minor Prophets, blessed John Moschos, just completed his
Spiritual Meadow.
There was also a small, wealthy Jewish community living in their midst,
mainly in Tiberias on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Their scholars
had just completed their version of the Talmud, the codification of
their faith, Rabbinic Judaism; but for instruction they deferred to the
prevailing Jewish community in Persian Babylonia.
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In 614 local Palestinian Jews allied with their Babylonian
co-religionists and assisted the Persians in their conquest of the Holy
Land. 26,000 Jews participated in the onslaught. In the aftermath of
the Persian victory, the Jews perpetrated a massive holocaust of the
Gentiles of Palestine. They burned the churches and the monasteries,
killed monks and priests, burned books. The beautiful basilica of
Fishes and Loaves in Tabgha, the Ascension on the Mount of Olives, St
Stephen opposite Damascus Gate and the Hagia Sion on Mt Zion are just
at the top of the list of perished edifices. Indeed, very few churches
survived the onslaught. The Great Laura of St Sabas, tucked away in the
bottomless Ravine of Fire (Wadi an-Nar) was saved by its remote
location and steep crags. The Church of the Nativity miraculously
survived: when Jews commanded its destruction, the Persians balked.
They perceived the Magi mosaic above the lintel as the portrait of
Persian kings.
This devastation was not the worst crime. When Jerusalem surrendered to
the Persians, thousands of local Christians became prisoners of war and
were herded to the Mamilla Pool area. The Israeli archaeologist Ronny
Reich writes:
They were probably sold to the highest bidder. According to some
sources, the Christian captives at Mamilla Pond were bought by Jews and
were then slain on the spot.
The Oxford Professor Henry Hart Milman's History of the Jews describes it in stronger terms:
It had come at length, the long-expected hour of triumph and vengeance;
and the Jews did not neglect the opportunity. They washed away the
profanation of the holy city in Christian blood. The Persians are said
to have sold the miserable captives for money. The vengeance of the
Jews was stronger than their avarice; not only did they not scruple to
sacrifice their treasures in the purchase of these devoted bondsmen,
they put to death all they had purchased at a lavish price. It was a
rumour of the time that 90,000 perished.
An eyewitness to the massacre, Strategius of St Sabas, was more vivid:
Thereupon the vile Jews… rejoiced exceedingly, because they detested
the Christians, and they conceived an evil plan. As of old they bought
the Lord from the Jews with silver, so they purchased Christians out of
the reservoir… How many souls were slain in the reservoir of Mamilla!
How many perished of hunger and thirst! How many priests and monks were
massacred by the sword! How many maidens, refusing their abominable
outrages, were given over to death by the enemy! How many parents
perished on top of their children! How many of the people were brought
up by the Jews and butchered, and became confessors of Christ! Who can
count the multitude of the corpses of those who were massacred in
Jerusalem!’
Strategius estimated the victims of the holocaust at 66,000.
In plain prose, the Jews ransomed the Christians from the hands of the
Persian soldiers for good money to slaughter them at Mamilla Pool, ‘and
it ran with blood’. Jews massacred between 60,000 and 90,000
Palestinian Christians in Jerusalem alone, almost 1.5 million in
today’s values (the total earth’s population was according to the
Encyclopaedia Britannica about 300 million, twenty times smaller than
today). A few days later, the Persian military understood the magnitude
of the massacre and stopped the Jews.
III
To his credit, the Israeli archaeologist Ronny Reich does not try to
shift the blame for the massacres onto the Persians, as it is usually
done nowadays. He admits that ‘the Persian Empire was not based on
religious principles and was indeed inclined to religious tolerance’.
This good man is clearly unsuitable to write for the Washington Post.
That paper’s correspondent in Israel would have had no trouble
describing the massacre as ‘retaliatory strike by the Jews who suffered
under Christian rule’.
The holocaust of the Christian Palestinians in year 614 is well
documented and you will find it described in older books. It has been
censored out of modern guides and history books. Elliott Horowitz
described, in his brilliant expose of the Jewish apologia[ii] how
almost all Jewish historians suppressed the facts and re-wrote history.
The cover-up continues even now. Recent Israeli publications attach the
blame to the Persians, as they push the responsibility for Sabra and
Shatila massacre onto the Lebanese Maronites. Horowitz writes:
Raul Hilberg, in The Destruction of the European Jews, asserted that
“preventive attack, armed resistance, and revenge are almost completely
absent in two thousand years of Jewish ghetto history”. Avi Yona, a
leading Israeli historian, Leon Polyakov, author of History of
Anti-Semitism (published at the expense of Marc Rich, the thief - ISH)
and many others glossed over the holocaust of 614, kept silent or
denied it completely. Benzion Dinur, a former director of the Holocaust
Museum Yad va-Shem, told his readers euphemistically, in language that
might have offended him if used with regard to Jews, that "recalcitrant
Christians were firmly held in check’.
As a rule, Jewish historical and ideological writing is notoriously
unreliable and apologetic, Horowitz shows. Granted, ‘not all Jews’,
vide Horowitz, Finkelstein and other wonderful men, but they would be
the first to agree with the truth of the above. The feeling of
self-righteousness and perpetual victim-hood reinforced by a
tendentious, distorted historical narrative is a source of mental
disease, an obsession common to many modern Jews. This obsession
intoxicates Jews and gives them unusual strength in promoting their own
distorted narrative. In a way, this massive distortion of reality turns
Jews into victorious berserks of ideological struggle. Still, while
being a successful strategy, it is a mental disease, a danger to the
souls of Jews and to the lives of others.
The Jews are not unique. Germans were intoxicated by the injustice of
Versailles, and Adolf Hitler voiced it. Eric Margolis of the Toronto
Sun[iii] wrote about Armenians inflamed by the story of their
holocaust. They massacred thousands of their peaceful Azeri neighbours
in the 1990s, and uprooted 800,000 native non-Armenians. ‘It’s time to
recognize all the world’s horrors’, Margolis concludes. It is time to
recognise the danger of inflammatory and one-sided narrative, I would
add. The same system of tendentious reality-distorting narrative was
deployed by the activists of militant feminism, communism,
psychoanalysis, neo-conservatism, neo-liberalism, Zionism and a
plethora of smaller movements as the means to enrage and intoxicate
supporters for the ideological struggle.
As a result, we live in a psychotic, sick world. Our only system of
communication, the media, is the enforcer of the malady and leads us to
our perdition. It is necessary to promote balanced, alternative
discourse in order to return to the common sense. Since the Jews have
become so prominent in the modern world, the lopsided Jewish discourse
has to be deconstructed and the crown of martyrdom carefully removed.
The tragic events of 614 should be returned into historical narrative,
for it will help the Jews to heal their paranoid delusion. Without this
knowledge one cannot understand the provisions of the treaty between
the Jerusalemites and Caliph Omar ibn Khattab, concluded in year 638.
In the Sulh al Quds, as this treaty of capitulation is called,
Patriarch Sofronius demanded, and the powerful Arab ruler concurred to
protect the people of Jerusalem from the ferocity of the Jews.
The genocide of the AD 614 was the most horrible, but not the only,
genocide wreaked by Jews in those troubled years. Though the biblical
story of the Canaan conquest by Joshua is just a story, it influenced
Jewish souls. The Sixth Century was a century of strong Jewish
influence, and it had more than its fair share of genocide.
Just a few years before 614, in 610, the Jews of Antioch massacred Christians. The Jewish historian Graetz wrote:
[The Jews] fell upon their Christian neighbours and retaliated for the
injuries which they had suffered; they killed all that fell into their
hands, and threw their bodies into the fire, as the Christians had done
to them a century before. The Patriarch Anastasius, an object of
special hate, was shamefully abused by them, and his body dragged
through the streets before he was put to death.
For Graetz, as for IDF spokesmen, Jews always kill ‘in retaliation’.
This dogma was not invented by CNN and Sharon: it is deeply rooted in
the Jewish psyche as the ultimate defence. This historian (like other
Jewish historians) did not care to mention that
The Jews of Antioch disembowelled the great Patriarch Anastasius,
forced him to eat his own intestines; they hurled his genitals into his
face.[iv]
IV
After the Arab conquest, a majority of Palestinian Jews accepted the
message of the Messenger, as did the majority of Palestinian
Christians, albeit for somewhat different reasons. For local
Christians, Islam was a sort of Nestorian Christianity without icons,
without Constantinople’s interference and without Greeks. (The Greek
domination of the Palestinian church remains a problem for the local
Christians to this very day.)
For ordinary local Jews, Islam was the return to the faith of Abraham
and Moses. They had not been able to follow the intricacies of the new
Babylonian faith anyway. The majority of them became Muslims and
blended into the Palestinian population.
V
Modern Jews do not have to feel guilty for the misdeeds of Jews long
gone. No son is responsible for the sins of his father. Israel could
have turned this mass grave with its Byzantine chapel and mosaics into
a small and poignant memorial reminding its citizens of a horrible page
in the history of the land and of the dangers of genocidal supremacy.
Instead, the Israeli authorities preferred to demolish the tomb and
create an underground parking-lot in its place. That did not cause a
murmur.
The guardians of the Jewish conscience, Amos Oz and others, have
objected to the destruction of ancient remains. No, not of the tomb at
Mamilla. They ran a petition against the keepers of the Haram a-Sharif
mosque complex for digging a ten-inch trench to lay a new pipe. It did
not matter to them that in an op-ed in Haaretz, the leading Israeli
archaeologist denied any relevance of the mosque-works to science. They
still described it as ‘a barbaric act of Muslims aimed at the
obliteration of the Jewish heritage of Jerusalem’. Among the
signatories I found, to my amazement and sorrow, the name of Ronny
Reich. One thought he might tell them who obliterated the vestiges of
the Jewish heritage at Mamilla Pool.
Censored history creates a distorted picture of reality. Recognition of
the past is a necessary step on the way to sanity. The Germans and the
Japanese have recognized the crimes of their fathers, have came to
grips with their moral failings and have emerged as humbler, less
boastful folks, akin to the rest of human race. We Jews have so far
failed to exorcise the haughty spirit of the Chosen-ness, and find
ourselves in a dire predicament.
That is why the idea of supremacy is still with us, still calling for
genocide. In 1982, Amos Oz[v] met an Israeli who shared with the writer
his dream of becoming a Jewish Hitler to the Palestinians. Persistent
rumours identify the potential Hitler as Ariel Sharon. Whether it is
true or not, slowly this dream is becoming a reality.
The Haaretz published an ad on its front page[vi], a fatwa, signed by a
group of Rabbis. The Rabbis proclaimed the theological identification
of Ishmael (the Arabs) with the Amalek. ‘Amalek’ is mentioned in the
Bible as the name of a tribe that caused trouble for the Children of
Israel. In this story the God of Israel commands His people to
exterminate the Amalek tribe completely, including its livestock. King
Saul botched the job: he exterminated them all right, but failed to
kill nubile, unwed maidens. This ‘failure’ cost him his crown. The
obligation to exterminate the people of Amalek is still counted among
the tenets of the Jewish faith.
At the end of WWII, some Jews, including the late Prime Minister
Menachem Begin, identified the Germans with Amalek, and a Jewish
religious socialist and a fighter against Nazis, Abba Kovner, hatched a
plot in 1945 to poison the water-supply system of German cities and to
kill ‘six million Germans’. He obtained poison from a brother of the
future President of Israel, Efraim Katzir. Katzir supposedly thought
Kovner intended to poison ‘only’ a few thousands German POWs. The plan
mercifully flopped when Kovner was stopped by British officials in a
European port. This story was published last year in Israel in a
biography of Kovner written by Prof Dina Porat, head of the
Anti-Semitism Research Centre at Tel Aviv University[vii].
In plain English, the Rabbis’ fatwa means: our religious duty is to
kill all Arabs, including women and babies and their livestock to the
last cat. The liberal Haaretz, whose editor and owner are sufficiently
versed to understand the fatwa, did not hesitate to place the ad. Some
Palestinian activists recently criticized me for associating with the
Russian weekly Zavtra and for quoting the American weekly Spotlight. I
wonder why they have not condemned me for writing in Haaretz? Zavtra
and Spotlight have never published a call to genocide, after all.
It would be unfair to single out Haaretz. Another prominent Jewish
newspaper, The Washington Post, published an equally passionate call to
genocide by Charles Krauthammer[viii]. This adept of King Saul cannot
rely upon his audience’s knowledge of the Bible, so he refers to
General Powell’s slaughter of routed Iraqi troops at the end of the
Gulf war. He quotes Colin Powell saying of the Iraqi army: "First we're
going to cut it off, then we're going to kill it”. For Krauthammer with
his carefully chosen quotes, multitudes of slain Arabs do not qualify
for the human pronoun ‘them’. They are an ‘it’. In the last stage of
the war in the Gulf, immense numbers of retreating and disarmed Iraqis
were slaughtered in cold blood by the US Air Force, their bodies buried
by bulldozers in the desert sand in huge and nameless mass graves. The
number of victims of this hecatomb is estimated from one hundred
thousand to half a million. God alone knows their names.
Krauthammer wants to repeat this feat in Palestine. ‘It’ is already cut
off, divided by the Israeli army into seventy pieces. Now it is ready
for the great kill. ‘Kill it!’ he calls with great passion. He must be
worried that the Persians will again stop the bloodbath before the
Mamilla Pool fills up. His worries are our hopes.
[i] BAR, 1996, v 22 No 2
[ii] "The Vengeance of the Jews Was Stronger Than Their Avarice":
Modern Historians and the Persian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614
(published in Jewish Social Studies Volume 4, Number 2, Indiana
University)
[iii] 22.04.2001
[iv] Horowitz, ibid.
[v] Here and there in the Land of Israel, Amos Oz
[vi] 21 November, 2000
[vii] Haaretz, 28 April 2001
[viii] Washington Post, 20 Apr 2001v
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