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02-27-2008, 03:10 PM
Poetic justice???
After enemies threaten Israel with "earthquake", tremor terrifies Lebanese
By Israel Insider staff February 15, 2008
A day after Sheik Hassan Nasrallah warned of "open war" against Israel, and Iran's ambassador threatened an "earthquake" against the "Zionist regime," Lebanese and Palestinians were terrified by a real tremor. The eastern Mediterranean trembled with a moderate quake just after noon, shaking buildings in Beirut and sending terrified Lebanese and Palestinians into the streets. The second tremor in a week, it was slightly stronger than Monday night's, which measured 4.0 on the Richter scale.
The European-Mediterranean Seismological Center said on its Web site that the quake Friday was 5.3 on the Richter scale and that its epicenter was in Lebanon, more than 10 times the strength of the earlier one, whose epicenter was about 4 miles east of Tyre, in the heart of Hezbollah's stornghold in southern Lebanon. The state-run National News Agency said it lasted several seconds and sent panicked residents to the streets. ...
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Security/12635.htm
Recent tremors raise fears of potentially destructive earthquake
By Zafrir Rinat and Eli Ashkenazi, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and AP
... Friday's earthquake shook open a large hole on the Temple Mount plaza, near the Dome of the Rock.
Al-Aqsa mosque officials belonging to the Islamic Movement's Northern Branch covered the hole with wooden planks following afternoon prayers.
The officials, who also said the quake caused cracks in several local residential buildings, said the hole was a meter deep, two meters long and meter and a half wide. ...
... In the West Bank, An old house fell onto the main road in Kofin village west of Nablus, blocking it but not hurting anyone. ...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/954691.html
What happened at Joseph's Tomb in October 2000?
In the early days of the al-Aqsa Intifada, on the morning of October 7, 2000, Israel withdrew the small contingent of IDF border policemen who had been guarding the site of the Tomb of the Patriarch Joseph and its Yeshiva. The holy site was located in Shechem in Samaria, the town the Arabs call "Nablus". Over the preceeding days, the Tomb had been attacked with gunfire, stones, and firebombs. ...
... Joseph's Tomb had long been a focus of Jewish pilgrimage and prayer. The late Dr. Zvi Ilan, one of Israel's foremost archeologists, described Joseph's Tomb as:
* ... one of the tombs whose location is known with the utmost degree of certainty and is based on continuous documentation since biblical times. ("Tombs of the Righteous in the Land of Israel", p. 365)
The Book of Joshua (24:32) states explicitly:
* The bones of Joseph which the Children of Israel brought up from Egypt were buried in Shechem in the portion of the field that had been purchased by Jacob. (See also Gen. 33:19; Gen, 48:21-22; Gen. 50:24-25.)
The Midrash and other ancient texts mention the site, as did the early Church historian Eusebius of Caesarea, who visited it nearly 1,700 years ago. Arab geographers, medieval Jewish pilgrims, Samaritan historians and 19th-century British cartographers provide consistent confirmation of the site's location and verification as the true tomb of the Patriarch Joseph. After thousands of years of veneration by all faiths ...
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1991to_now_alaqsa_josephstomb.php
Don't you just love the irony of all this??? :cool:
After enemies threaten Israel with "earthquake", tremor terrifies Lebanese
By Israel Insider staff February 15, 2008
A day after Sheik Hassan Nasrallah warned of "open war" against Israel, and Iran's ambassador threatened an "earthquake" against the "Zionist regime," Lebanese and Palestinians were terrified by a real tremor. The eastern Mediterranean trembled with a moderate quake just after noon, shaking buildings in Beirut and sending terrified Lebanese and Palestinians into the streets. The second tremor in a week, it was slightly stronger than Monday night's, which measured 4.0 on the Richter scale.
The European-Mediterranean Seismological Center said on its Web site that the quake Friday was 5.3 on the Richter scale and that its epicenter was in Lebanon, more than 10 times the strength of the earlier one, whose epicenter was about 4 miles east of Tyre, in the heart of Hezbollah's stornghold in southern Lebanon. The state-run National News Agency said it lasted several seconds and sent panicked residents to the streets. ...
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Security/12635.htm
Recent tremors raise fears of potentially destructive earthquake
By Zafrir Rinat and Eli Ashkenazi, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and AP
... Friday's earthquake shook open a large hole on the Temple Mount plaza, near the Dome of the Rock.
Al-Aqsa mosque officials belonging to the Islamic Movement's Northern Branch covered the hole with wooden planks following afternoon prayers.
The officials, who also said the quake caused cracks in several local residential buildings, said the hole was a meter deep, two meters long and meter and a half wide. ...
... In the West Bank, An old house fell onto the main road in Kofin village west of Nablus, blocking it but not hurting anyone. ...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/954691.html
What happened at Joseph's Tomb in October 2000?
In the early days of the al-Aqsa Intifada, on the morning of October 7, 2000, Israel withdrew the small contingent of IDF border policemen who had been guarding the site of the Tomb of the Patriarch Joseph and its Yeshiva. The holy site was located in Shechem in Samaria, the town the Arabs call "Nablus". Over the preceeding days, the Tomb had been attacked with gunfire, stones, and firebombs. ...
... Joseph's Tomb had long been a focus of Jewish pilgrimage and prayer. The late Dr. Zvi Ilan, one of Israel's foremost archeologists, described Joseph's Tomb as:
* ... one of the tombs whose location is known with the utmost degree of certainty and is based on continuous documentation since biblical times. ("Tombs of the Righteous in the Land of Israel", p. 365)
The Book of Joshua (24:32) states explicitly:
* The bones of Joseph which the Children of Israel brought up from Egypt were buried in Shechem in the portion of the field that had been purchased by Jacob. (See also Gen. 33:19; Gen, 48:21-22; Gen. 50:24-25.)
The Midrash and other ancient texts mention the site, as did the early Church historian Eusebius of Caesarea, who visited it nearly 1,700 years ago. Arab geographers, medieval Jewish pilgrims, Samaritan historians and 19th-century British cartographers provide consistent confirmation of the site's location and verification as the true tomb of the Patriarch Joseph. After thousands of years of veneration by all faiths ...
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1991to_now_alaqsa_josephstomb.php
Don't you just love the irony of all this??? :cool: