Is Israel's 'Democracy' slipping away

[Jos]

University of Chicago Oriental Institute---Empires in the Fertile Crescent: Ancient Assyria, Anatolia and Israel...

Visitors will get a rare look at one of the most important geographic regions in the ancient Near East beginning January 29 with the opening of "Empires in the Fertile Crescent: Ancient Assyria, Anatolia and Israel," the newest galleries at the Museum of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

The galleries showcase artifacts that illustrate the power of these ancient civilizations, including sculptural representations of tributes demanded by kings of ancient Assyria, and some sources of continual fascination, such as a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls--one of the few examples in the United States.

"Visitors begin in Assyria, move across Anatolia and down the Mediterranean coast to the land of ancient Israel. The galleries also trace the conquests of the Assyrian empire across the Middle East and follow their trail to Israel."

The Israelites, who emerged as the dominant people of that region in about 975 B.C. are documented by many objects of daily life, a large stamp engraved with a biblical text and an ossuary (box for bones) inscribed in Hebrew.
Probably the most spectacular portion of the Megiddo gallery, however, is the Megiddo ivories. These exquisitely carved pieces of elephant tusks were inlays in furniture, and a particularly large piece was made into a game board.

Oriental Institute | Museum

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"The ivories are carved in different styles--Egyptian, Mycenaean Greek, and local Canaanite--and show how connected Megiddo was to a larger world during the Late Bronze Age,"

 

[JStone]

University of Chicago Oriental Institute---Empires in the Fertile Crescent: Ancient Assyria, Anatolia and Israel...

Visitors will get a rare look at one of the most important geographic regions in the ancient Near East beginning January 29 with the opening of "Empires in the Fertile Crescent: Ancient Assyria, Anatolia and Israel," the newest galleries at the Museum of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

The galleries showcase artifacts that illustrate the power of these ancient civilizations, including sculptural representations of tributes demanded by kings of ancient Assyria, and some sources of continual fascination, such as a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls--one of the few examples in the United States.

"Visitors begin in Assyria, move across Anatolia and down the Mediterranean coast to the land of ancient Israel. The galleries also trace the conquests of the Assyrian empire across the Middle East and follow their trail to Israel."

The Israelites, who emerged as the dominant people of that region in about 975 B.C. are documented by many objects of daily life, a large stamp engraved with a biblical text and an ossuary (box for bones) inscribed in Hebrew.
Probably the most spectacular portion of the Megiddo gallery, however, is the Megiddo ivories. These exquisitely carved pieces of elephant tusks were inlays in furniture, and a particularly large piece was made into a game board.

Oriental Institute | Museum

From your link

"The ivories are carved in different styles--Egyptian, Mycenaean Greek, and local Canaanite--and show how connected Megiddo was to a larger world during the Late Bronze Age,"

You see anything about Palestinians, needle dick?

 

[P F Tinmore]

Repeating the same mistakes is just an indication of your defeat

Really, How many times have you repeated this post?

Provide evidence disputing the University of Chicago's exhibit of a Jewish Empire in Israel 3000 years ago with archaeological evidence of a palestinian empire in Israel 3000 years ago.

You are unable to because no such evidence exists, you pathetic loser

Provide evidence that there was ever a time where Jews were the only people living in Palestine.

 

[JStone]

Really, How many times have you repeated this post?

Provide evidence disputing the University of Chicago's exhibit of a Jewish Empire in Israel 3000 years ago with archaeological evidence of a palestinian empire in Israel 3000 years ago.

You are unable to because no such evidence exists, you pathetic loser

Provide evidence that there was ever a time where Jews were the only people living in Palestine.

Jews established sovereignty over Israel 3000 years ago with their Monarchy. Now, you provide evidence palestinians existed in Israel 3000 years ago.

Eminent French Archaeologist and Near East historian Andre Lemaire, Directeur d'etudes at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, History and Philology Section of the Sorbonne, Specialist in West Semitic epigraphy

David's reign represents a glorious achievement. Seizing the opportunity occasioned by the weakness of Assyria and Egypt, a strong and brilliant personality, joined the houses of Israel and Judah, made Jerusalem the capital of both and used this unfication as the basis of his dominion. With this favorable international situation, David created for a time one of the most important powers in the ancient Near East.

Under Kings David and Solomon, Israel was transformed from a small territory into a larger united kingdom with vassal states subject to it. As the monarchy assumed an international role, other powers to the ancient Near East, such as Phoenicia and Egypt, were required to give due regard to Israel.
Amazon.com: Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? (9780802844163): William G. Dever: Books

 

[Monnagonna]

How bad does it suck for jews to have to try and defend their "democratic" apartheid regime?

 

[JStone]

How bad does it suck for jews to have to try and defend their "democratic" apartheid regime?

Worry about your own failed, miserable life, ugly one. Jews are the most successful people in history.

Too bad you weren't aborted.

 

[Monnagonna]

How bad does it suck for jews to have to try and defend their "democratic" apartheid regime?

Worry about your own failed, miserable life, ugly one. Jews are the most successful people in history.

Too bad you weren't aborted.

Successful at getting fried, maybe. Booted out of every country, maybe. Successful at not learning their lessons, for sure.

 

[JStone]

How bad does it suck for jews to have to try and defend their "democratic" apartheid regime?

Worry about your own failed, miserable life, ugly one. Jews are the most successful people in history.

Too bad you weren't aborted.

Successful at getting fried, maybe. Booted out of every country, maybe. Successful at not learning their lessons, for sure.

Jews are successful. You, not so much, ugly face.

There are, perhaps, thirteen to fifteen million Jews in a world of six billion people. Jews are so few in number that in a room of 1,000 people representing the world's population, only two would be Jewish. A comparable sample from the United States would count only twenty-two Jews among 1,000 representative Americans.
In the sciences, Jews have won 22 percent of all the Nobel Prizes ever awarded - 29 percent of the prizes since 1950, after the Holocaust destroyed a third of their numbers. Given their small population, Jews should have earned only one of the 502 Nobels awarded for physics, chemistry, medicine and physiology. They have won 123.

The Fields Medal, awarded to the world's brightest mathematicians under age 40, is the honor John Nash, of the book and movie A Beautiful Mind had hoped to win. Instead, he took a Nobel Prize in economics as a consolation prize. One-fourth of the Fields Medals winners are Jews.

Encyclopedia Britannica provides its list of "Great Inventions." Of the 267 individual inventors, more than 13 were Jews, including Zoll (the defibrillator and the pacemaker), Land (instant photography), Gabor (holography), and Ginsburg (videotape). Jews are represented on the list 22 times more than one would expect based on their population.

They are disproportionately counted in most of the arts. Since their respective dates of inception, America's leading symphony orchestras have been led by Jewish conductors one-third of the time. They have created nearly two-thirds of Broadway's longest running musicals. Probably one-fourth of the greatest photographers of all time have been Jews, as have 10 percent of the world's great master architects. Of movie directors who earned Oscars, 38 percent were Jews. In broad artistic recognition, nearly 30 percent of the Kennedy Center honors and 13 percent of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards have gone to them.

Jewish Achievement

 

[Jos]

You have any archaeological evidence for your palestinians living in Gaza or Israel 3000 years ago or are you just going to post bullshit videos all day like a mental patient?

3,000-year-old altar uncovered at Philistine site suggests cultural links to Jews

A stone altar from the 9th century BCE was found in an archeological dig on Tel Tzafit, a site identified with the biblical Philistine city of Gat. The altar is reminiscent of Jewish altars from the same period and sheds light on the cultural links between the two peoples, who fought each other for centuries.

3,000-year-old altar uncovered at Philistine site suggests cultural links to Jews - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

How bad does it suck for jews to have to try and defend their "democratic" apartheid regime?

Worry about your own failed, miserable life, ugly one. Jews are the most successful people in history.

Too bad you weren't aborted.

Successful at getting fried, maybe. Booted out of every country, maybe. Successful at not learning their lessons, for sure.

Jewish guy banging your girlfriend?

 

[Urbanguerrilla]

I'm glad Zoabi was punished. She broke the rules of the Knesset. That's what happens.

Thats not a punishment, I've no doubt Zoabi welcomes this as it proves what a rotten corrupt excuse for democracy Israel is.

This will undoubtedly strengthen Zoabis hand.

 

[Monnagonna]

Worry about your own failed, miserable life, ugly one. Jews are the most successful people in history.

Too bad you weren't aborted.

Successful at getting fried, maybe. Booted out of every country, maybe. Successful at not learning their lessons, for sure.

Jewish guy banging your girlfriend?

Jews can't get a hottie like her, you only go for inbred coke bottle glasses bitches.

 

[P F Tinmore]

There are about 3000 Jews living in Palestine with no attacks. There are Jews visiting Gaza all the time and there are no problems.

Five Jews Murdered in West Bank

And Jews do not go to Gaza unless they are the IDF delivering goods, assessing checkpoints, or putting the smack down on some flotillas. Some go as journalists, but it's very hard to get in and very dangerous. You are a liar.

Those were Israelis. Jews have no problem.

Rabbi on his second aid trip to Gaza

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Is Israel's 'Democracy'... 07-26-2011 10:22 AM GHook93 To the next star!

I have already had two a couple of times. It is no big deal.

Why is that so important to you?

 

[docmauser1]

Thats not a punishment, I've no doubt Zoabi welcomes this as it proves what a rotten corrupt excuse for democracy Israel is.

While having been elected in the first place, of course.

This will undoubtedly strengthen Zoabis hand.

Interesting.

 

[Truthmatters]

No.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH


so Isreal is a democracy?

kinda screwed your self huh?

 

[CitizenPained]

All citizens have suffrage.
They vote in their leaders.
Elections are free and fair.

Yes. It is a democracy. You are confusing the word democracy with US view on liberty.

 

[Jos]

All citizens have suffrage.
They vote in their leaders.
Elections are free and fair.

Yes. It is a democracy. You are confusing the word democracy with US view on liberty.

But if they vote for Hamas they get "put on a diet" by the zionazis

 

[alexa]

All citizens have suffrage.
They vote in their leaders.
Elections are free and fair.

Yes. It is a democracy. You are confusing the word democracy with US view on liberty.

Nice try

Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible people have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives. Ideally, this includes equal (and more or less direct) participation in the proposal, development and passage of legislation into law. It can also encompass social, economic and cultural conditions that enable the free and equal practice of political self-determination. The term comes from the Greek: δημοκρατία – (dēmokratía) "rule of the people",[1] which was coined from δῆμος (dêmos) "people" and κράτος (Kratos) "power", in the middle of the 5th-4th century BC to denote the political systems then existing in some Greek city-states, notably Athens following a popular uprising in 508 BC.[2]

Democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[alexa]

Here it is put very simply by one of the key intellectuals studying Democracy today.

Democracy is an ethic whose universality, its applicability everywhere on the face of the earth, stems from its commitment to ‘pluriversality’. It stands for the robust protection of peoples and their biosphere against bogus First Principles and arrogant Grand Ideologies and their claims upon power. Democracy is not a First Principle. It stands guard against pompous Universals, including the imaginings of Liberal Democracy and Western Democracy. Its key ethic is humility, and it therefore remains calm when confronted by the provocative question (posed by the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk in Snow) of whether particular democracies can endure rival forms of democracy created by people they don’t much like. For many democrats, that question, prompted by the election of a Hamas government in Palestine and recent events in Tunisia and Egypt, resembles a pistol shot in the midst of a theatre performance, a shout during a time of prayer. It shouldn’t.

Democracy is the champion of core virtues like toleration, civility, respect for legality and non-violence. It embraces institutional pluralism, visions of complex equality and a variety of mechanisms of public accountability that ensure that wrong-headed decisions and outright folly can be prevented, or undone. Democracy seeks to humble. It favours the equalisation of power and stands opposed everywhere to manipulation, bossing and violent rule. This is not because democracy is True and Right. It is rather because democracy is the opponent of the powerful, especially when their lust for power is bathed in the conviction that True and Right are on their side.

Humility and Democracy | John Keane

 

[docmauser1]

But if they vote for Hamas they get "put on a diet" by the zionazis

Arabs and their delusions. They want to make choices, but don't want to accept responsibilities that making choices entail. Making a collective choice entails a collective responsibility, which vile irresponsible individuls like to call "collective punishment". Why do arabs like to flog themselves and blame others for it?