An interesting passage from the Greek Chronicle of Theophanes the Confessor (d. 818), which attributes the Muslim defeat at Muʾtah to a man from Quraysh (Κορασηνός) named Koutabas (Qutaybah or Quṭbah?) employed by the Romans.

GabrielSaidR The funny thing is that, according to the Muslim sources, two years after Yarmuk the Arab Christians defect to the Byzantines en masse (~30,000 men) because they don't want to pay taxes to the Muslims.

The only people being written out of history here are the Byzantines who actually preserved the Greek originals. [NB there's scant evidence that any *complete* work of Plato was translated into Syriac or Arabic, just fragments and epitomes] google.com/books/edition/…

CarlAFez The crucial point is that the large P-wave signal is solely caused by the primary explosion of the weapon and not due to any secondary explosions. Hence the seismic signal proves the use of a >0.3kt nuke and the widely used argument that it was due to the ammo dump is false.

If Greece's government was not completely captured by the Epstein Regime, this would be nothing but a deranged fantasy. In the current circumstances, however, Greeks should be concerned. A representative of Israel Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s “Kahol Lavan” party raised an

Χωρίς να το πολύ καταλαβαίνετε η ελληνική γη μένει ακαλλιέργητη,σήμερα με πήρε τηλέφωνο αυτός που νοίκιαζε τα χωράφια μου και μου ανακοίνωσε ότι σταματάει να τα καλλιεργεί γιατί δεν βγαίνει οικονομικά. Ούτε τζάμπα χωρίς ενοίκιο δεν τα θέλει, του πρότεινα απλά να τα καλλιεργήσει

I wonder what happens on a societal level when people from all walks of life got ridiculed for years for predicting and observing these things and now read them stated plainly in the same media that was used to slander them.

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Syria ended in Sweida, just as it began there (the Druze cavalry were the ones who raised the Arab flag in Damascus in 1918) We don't need an international report to know that The issue is not what the savages did in the Druze villages, but rather the Syrian "sunnis" are capable

The 1909 book on the Pharos lighthouse in Alexandria by Hermann Thiersch has dominated conceptions of the Seventh Wonder of the World for a century. I have an original but they are very rare. I cannot find a single sale record or listing to value it, but >£1000. A wonder in

الحاج علي شعيب, هنيئا. بيننا وبينهم دماء وثأر فقط....

I am not a journalist, nor do I claim to be. But I take the responsibility of sharing news & commentary online very seriously, despite everything else in my life, including my job which has nothing to do with this. Even so, I learned a great deal from Hajj Ali Choeib. His

Ali Shoeib c’est la voix de la libération du Sud Liban en 2000, celle de la victoire de 2006 et c’est le journaliste qui connaissait par coeur toutes les positions israéliennes à la frontière. Il n’a jamais eu peur d’aller jusqu’au dernier grain de sable de notre territoire,

The Creator gifted Ali Choeib علي شعيب || 🇱🇧 Ali choeib with martyrdom after a long life, and many close calls, in service of Truth the Almighty. May he be accepted in the highest of heavens; we have seen nothing from him except good.

Antioch Patriarchate: - Events in Sukâlebiye constitute an attack on property and Shrine of the Virgin Mary, an act of intimidation and violence. - We condemn attacks against the Christian community and reject characterization of these events as "isolated incidents."

This is you in 2012, buddy. Shut the fuck up.

وداعا يا بطل الجنوب