US-NATO's 'COUNTER-CHRISTMAS CRUSADE' AGAINST THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION AND THE HOLY LAND
Felicity Arbuthnot
“It’s really 19th century behavior in the 21st century. You just don’t invade another country on phony pretexts in order to assert your interests.” -John Kerry, “Meet the Press”, 2nd March 2014.
There has been a searing irony to Christmas since August 1990 and the decimating embargo on Iraq. It marked the beginning of the destruction of the region where the three Abrahamic religions were born at Ur in southern Iraq, where the Garden of Eden is believed to have flourished at Al-Qurnah, translation “connection” or “joint”, since it is where the Biblical Tigris and Euphrates rivers join.
In Al-Qurnah an ancient jujube tree – a fruit species (image right), cultivation of which is believed to go back to 900 BCE – was celebrated as the actual Biblical Tree of Knowledge.
Nearby is Babylon, found in the Books of Genesis, Peter and Revelations.
Neighbouring Syria, is also part of the “Cradle of Civilization”, integral to Biblical narrative.
Jesus delivered the Sermon on the Mount (Mount Hermon) which according to the Book of Matthew included:
“Syria, you are the cradle of the prophets and apostles and the center that spreads the gospel from Antioch in Syria to the world, and paved the way of the Forefathers of the Church to continue.”
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