Netanyahu sacks defense minister
thehill.com
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fired his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, an Israeli official confirmed to The Hill. Netanyahu and Gallant have clashed publicly over the course of the…
    • witness@lemmygrad.ml
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      11 hours ago

      I have a random fun fact about beelzebub...

      There's some dispute, but Baal zebub seems to have been a derogatory term used by ancient israelites against the philistine deity, Ba'al (lord), calling him baal zebub, or the lord of flies.

      Occult circles have demonized the figure over time, but yea. Ancient racists who thought of the philistines as pests, and blatantly insulted their religion by renaming their lord to 'lord of the flies'.

      • woodenghost [comrade/them]
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        19 minutes ago

        And just to come full circle:

        Baalbek, named after Baal, is an ancient city in the Beqaa plane in Lebanon. It was known as the bread basket of the Roman empire. The Romans build the largest temples outside of Rome there and allowed worship of Baal to continue in the large entrance building in front of the Jupiter temple. The temples stood in good condition for centuries and are now under threat by IDF bombing, which has already come as close as 500 meters, while every building in the city has been declared a target and it's people ordered to evacuate.

  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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    11 hours ago

    Such convenient timing when everyone is focused on the American elections.

    Netanyahu never wastes a good distraction to push his agenda.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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      11 hours ago

      They do have a history of doing this. The entire 2012 operation happened in the same time frame election to just before inauguration, same with 2008.