Under the Ottoman Empire's millet system, Christians and Jews were considered dhimmi (meaning "protected" under Ottoman law in exchange for loyalty to the state and payment of the jizya tax.
Orthodox Christians were the largest non-Muslim group. With the rise of Imperial Russia, the Russians became a kind of protector of the Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire.[3]

Conversion to Islam in the Ottoman Empire involved a combination of individual, family, communal and institutional initiatives and motives. The process was also influenced by the balance of power between the Ottomans and the neighboring Christian states.[4] However, most Ottoman subjects in Eastern Europe remained Orthodox Christian, such as Greeks, Serbs, Romanians, Bulgarians, while present-day Albania, Bosnia and Kosovo had larger Muslim populations as a result of Ottoman influence.

Distorted history story.

It was a back and forth reign during that time between Christians/Jews vs Islam.

The last caliphate was deposed in that same Turkey by Christians/Jews

Not everything you will commenting on your activities here simplify how dumb you are in real life. Read what you wrote there if it have meaning to you.

helinues:
Distorted history story.

It was a back and forth reign during that time between Christians/Jews vs Islam.

The last caliphate was deposed in that same Turkey by Christians/Jews

Resurrection212:
Not everything you will commenting on your activities here simplify how dumb you are in real life. Read what you wrote there if it have meaning to you.

I was expecting you to dispute what I wrote not attacking my personality

Sebi old Turkey na natural Christian/Jews region

helinues:
Distorted history story.

It was a back and forth reign during that time between Christians/Jews vs Islam.

The last caliphate was deposed in that same Turkey by Christians/Jews

Several empires are deposed by their people. The Roman, byzantine, Persian, Mongolian empires. That didn't justify that the non Muslim thrived peacefully under the ottoman

STRI1:


Several empires are deposed by their people. The Roman, byzantine, Persian, Mongolian empires. That didn't justify that the non Muslim thrived peacefully under the ottoman

I ain't justify anything but @ the emboldened was caused by conquered the land stories( land that do not belong to them), when it's not that God na real estate agent wey dey share lands anyhow

helinues:
Distorted history story.

It was a back and forth reign during that time between Christians/Jews vs Islam.

The last caliphate was deposed in that same Turkey by Christians/Jews

You seem to live on Nairaland. Everywhere cho-cho-cho-cho-cho! Na everything you must shook mouth!?

oskylabs:
You seem to live on Nairaland. Everywhere cho-cho-cho-cho-cho! Na everything you must shook mouth!?

Wondering how you have been able to monitor my activities upon how productive you have been.

You no see say it makes two of us

helinues:


I ain't justify anything but @ the emboldened was caused by conquered the land stories( land that fo not belong to them), when it's not that God na real estate agent

USA, Australia, Canada, New Zealand are built on other people land. Before the ottomans, we has the Romans, was Constantinople/Anatolia Constantine birth right too ??

Empire rise and fall

STRI1:


USA, Australia, Canada, New Zealand are built on other people land. Before the ottomans, we has the Romans, was Constantinople/Anatolia Constantine birth right too ??

Empire rise and fall

Those are the wrongs in the past that we are not ready to discuss about.

Fulanis also have their past gory history like such which is still causing trouble up till today

Are you an historian? IF YES DID YOU NOT READ ABOUT ROMAN EMPIRE?

helinues:


I was expecting you to dispute what I wrote not attacking my personality

Sebi old Turkey na natural Christian/Jews region

Resurrection212:
Are you an historian? IF YES DID YOU NOT READ ABOUT ROMAN EMPIRE?

Not an historian but read and watched documentaries about Ottoman empire and others. Their rise and fall

helinues:


Those are the wrongs in the past that we are not ready to discuss about.

Fulanis also have their past gory history like such which is still causing trouble up till today

If that's past even though they're living there till date why bring sentiments to the Turks ?

STRI1:


If that's past even though they're living there till date why bring sentiments to the Turks ?

Sentiments?

The last Muslim caliphate is from where? Who deposed and banished him?

helinues:


Wondering how you have been able to monitor my activities upon how productive you have been.

You no see say it makes two of us

You no go respond keh? No be you!? No wonder pesky trolls have taken up your case.

Nairaland Resident Troll-in-Chief. If NL shuts down tomorrow, what will be your fate?

Oya respond...

helinues:


Sentiments?

The last Muslim caliphate is from where? Who deposed and banished him?

The British defeated the ottomans during WW1, and was possible because of some Arabs and siding of the ottomans with Germany which was also defeated. Long story though.

Despite 500 years Islamic rule, 85% of Bulgaria is still Christian

The Bulgarians had very tough leaders who determined to keep up their way of life and the Bulgarians themselves were determined.to remain Christians by all means

An average Nigerian is a fool...give him banana and the first thing that comes to his mind is religion, ethnicity and tribe

STRI1:


The British defeated the ottomans during WW1, and was possible because of some Arabs and siding of the ottomans with Germany which was also defeated. Long story though.

@ boldened, The christians right?

It was a back and forth reign during that time between Christians/Jews vs Islam.

So what exactly is your argument about when I already said the above quote.

Did the christian/jew reign favour Muslim/Arab?

STRI1:
Under the Ottoman Empire's millet system, Christians and Jews were considered dhimmi (meaning "protected" under Ottoman law in exchange for loyalty to the state and payment of the jizya tax.

dhimmi practically means inferior, not protected.
The jizya is essentially a payment to allow the "inferior" people live.

Imagine someone whose ancestors have lived hundreds of years in a place
suddenly turned to a third class citizen just because of their religion.
These non-muslim natives were forced to pay jizya for "peace".

Christistruth03:
Despite 500 years Islamic rule, 85% of Bulgaria is still Christian

The Bulgarians had very tough leaders who determined to keep up their way of life and the Bulgarians themselves were determined.to remain Christians by all means

If Islam forcibly convert people to islam.as you people say, 500year is long enough for them to be completely converted.

ivolt:


dhimmi practically means inferior, not protected.
The jizya is essentially a payment to allow the "inferior" people live.

Imagine someone whose ancestors have lived hundreds of years in a place
suddenly turned to a third class citizen just because of their religion.
These non-muslim natives were forced to pay jizya for "peace".

Dhimmi means protected. You don't understand Arabic more than Arabs. Okay ?

ذمي

STRI1:


If Islam forcibly convert people to islam.as you people say, 500year is long enough for them to be completely converted.

The Bulgarians were stoic in holding onto their faith, how many Christians are left in Turkey?

Christistruth03:


The Bulgarians were stoic in holding onto their faith, how many Christians are left in Turkey?

If you read Turkish history or the ottoman very well, you'll know that Christianity thrived in ottoman empire and has very much mix if culture. From Armenia, to many areas of Europe. Not to talk about the orthodox Greek

helinues:
Distorted history story.

It was a back and forth reign during that time between Christians/Jews vs Islam.

The last caliphate was deposed in that same Turkey by Christians/Jews

The Young Turks who overthrew the Sultanate were not Christian but Jews.

The Armenian genocide was committed by these Jews and not Muslims.






Gey your facts straight.

Christistruth03:


The Bulgarians were stoic in holding onto their faith, how many Christians are left in Turkey?

We're the Bulgarians christians before Roman empire conquered their land and converted them all in eastern Europe to christians ? But rather you will pick sentiments with Islam because of hypocrisy. If the Turks has converted all the region of Andalusia to Greece, Armenia, etc. It'll have been bad, even though it never happened. But it's nothing when the Romans conquered their land and converted them all to Christians!

STRI1:


If you read Turkish history or the ottoman very well, you'll know that Christianity thrived in ottoman empire and has very much mix if culture. From Armenia, to many areas of Europe. Not to talk about the orthodox Greek

So why didn't Christianity thrive in Turkey?

In 1915 crypt-Jews perpetrated the Armenian genocide and blamed it on the Turks. The Ottoman Empire was controlling Palestine sought to become the Jewish state, and had rejected the Rothchild’s offer to buy it. The Zionist Israelite Community of Salonika, Greece, financed the Turkish “Committee for Union and Progress” (Ittihad ve Terakke) formed mainly by crypto-Jews, to overthrow the Turkish Empire in what is known as the “Young Turk Revolution” of 1908. This revolution was in fact a Jewish take over led by crypto-Jews, as exposed by Sir Gerard Lowther, the ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Ottoman Empire.

After the “Young Turk Revolution” new leaders of the Ottoman Empire such as Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Ataturk), Tala’at Pasha, Djavid Bey and many others were crypto-Jews. They controlled the Empire and took the opportunity to mass murder the Armenian Christians; the Turkish intelligentsia at the time, who composed the very rich and influential middle class. Tala’at Pasha was the principal organizer of the massacre and deportation process. Armenian men were mass murdered in their own suburbs, and the women along with children and the elderly were deported to the Syrian Desert and left there to die without any food or water. The result was 1.5 million Armenian dead.

The Jews wanted a global religious war between Christian Europe and Moslem Ottoman Empire in the hope to secure Palestine for themselves. In order to entice Christian Europe to attack the Ottoman Empire with the justification of protecting Christians, crypto-Jews slaughtered Armenian Christians and blamed it on the Moslem Turks. Other Christian ethnic groups, such as Assyrians and Greeks, were also targeted.

Turks, rather than Jews, are still to date blamed for the Armenian Genocide. For further in depth research refer to Christopher Jon Bjerknes thorough research “The Jewish Genocide of Armenian Christians”. You can also watch “Jewish Genocide of Armenian Christians” on youtube.

A Massacre of Christians By Jews: 614 A.D.–An Untold Chapter of History
Several days ago, in posting an article about the vandalizing of Jewish cemeteries in the US, I mentioned the Mamilla Cemetery in Jerusalem and the wanton destruction that has been perpetrated on it by Israelis over the past 60 years or so.

In that piece I quoted from a Wikipedia article which relates that the Mamilla graveyard–on top of which the Israelis have built a park, public restrooms, and a parking lot–contains the bodies of both Muslims and Christians. The latter number in the thousands, the majority of which were “killed in the pre-Islamic era,” the article says.

Israelis began destroying tombs and grave sites in the cemetery in the 1950s, while more recent developments include a project launched by the Simon Wiesenthal Center to build a “museum of tolerance” on the site.

What I did not know at the time I posted the article are the details of a massacre which took place in Jerusalem in the year 614 A.D.–a tragedy of huge dimensions that resulted in the deaths of thousands of Christians, many of whom ended up being buried in Mamilla (hat tip 5 Dancing Shlomos).

The attack upon the city of Jerusalem in 614 was initiated by invading Persians, but these were assisted in their efforts by Jews who were living in the region as well. The Jewish settlements appear to have been mainly in the north around the Sea of Galilee, while Christians seem to have inhabited the southern regions and the city of Jerusalem. At any rate, the Jews joined forces with the Persian army of conquest, but their hatred and savagery toward the Christians was so intense it even took the Persians aback.

The article at Wikipedia which I mentioned above glosses over these events, making no mention whatsoever of the Jewish involvement and laying the blame entirely upon the Persians.

Fortunately, a much more detailed account is supplied by Israel Shamir. His article was apparently written some number of years ago, but still is available on his website here. For those not familiar with Shamir, he is a former Israeli and a former Jew who is now a Christian and lives outside of Israel. The account he wrote speaks of churches and monasteries being burned and of monks and priests being killed, and he describes 614 as “the most dreadful year in the history of Palestine until the Twentieth Century.”

Below I reproduce his article in full, as well as a supplementary article by Karl Radl, who expands upon some of Shamir’s points and also supplies a much lengthier quote from the main historical source, a monk by the name of Antiochus of Palestine, who was also known as Strategius.

Christians should ponder the manner in which historical narratives are often manipulated, and should ask themselves why this chapter of history is not more widely known. They should ask themselves something else as well: how insulting, offensive, and provocative is it for a Jewish organization like the Simon Weisenthal Center to propose building a “museum of tolerance” on top of a graveyard containing the bodies of thousands of Christians who were slaughtered by Jews?

Christistruth03:


So why didn't Christianity thrive in Turkey?

Oh. You have lots to learn. Most of the christians amongst the Turks are Armenians or greeks. They still exist till date.

AuschwitzPrefec:
A Massacre of Christians By Jews: 614 A.D.–An Untold Chapter of History
Several days ago, in posting an article about the vandalizing of Jewish cemeteries in the US, I mentioned the Mamilla Cemetery in Jerusalem and the wanton destruction that has been perpetrated on it by Israelis over the past 60 years or so.

In that piece I quoted from a Wikipedia article which relates that the Mamilla graveyard–on top of which the Israelis have built a park, public restrooms, and a parking lot–contains the bodies of both Muslims and Christians. The latter number in the thousands, the majority of which were “killed in the pre-Islamic era,” the article says.

Israelis began destroying tombs and grave sites in the cemetery in the 1950s, while more recent developments include a project launched by the Simon Wiesenthal Center to build a “museum of tolerance” on the site.

What I did not know at the time I posted the article are the details of a massacre which took place in Jerusalem in the year 614 A.D.–a tragedy of huge dimensions that resulted in the deaths of thousands of Christians, many of whom ended up being buried in Mamilla (hat tip 5 Dancing Shlomos).

The attack upon the city of Jerusalem in 614 was initiated by invading Persians, but these were assisted in their efforts by Jews who were living in the region as well. The Jewish settlements appear to have been mainly in the north around the Sea of Galilee, while Christians seem to have inhabited the southern regions and the city of Jerusalem. At any rate, the Jews joined forces with the Persian army of conquest, but their hatred and savagery toward the Christians was so intense it even took the Persians aback.

The article at Wikipedia which I mentioned above glosses over these events, making no mention whatsoever of the Jewish involvement and laying the blame entirely upon the Persians.

Fortunately, a much more detailed account is supplied by Israel Shamir. His article was apparently written some number of years ago, but still is available on his website here. For those not familiar with Shamir, he is a former Israeli and a former Jew who is now a Christian and lives outside of Israel. The account he wrote speaks of churches and monasteries being burned and of monks and priests being killed, and he describes 614 as “the most dreadful year in the history of Palestine until the Twentieth Century.”

Below I reproduce his article in full, as well as a supplementary article by Karl Radl, who expands upon some of Shamir’s points and also supplies a much lengthier quote from the main historical source, a monk by the name of Antiochus of Palestine, who was also known as Strategius.

Christians should ponder the manner in which historical narratives are often manipulated, and should ask themselves why this chapter of history is not more widely known. They should ask themselves something else as well: how insulting, offensive, and provocative is it for a Jewish organization like the Simon Weisenthal Center to propose building a “museum of tolerance” on top of a graveyard containing the bodies of thousands of Christians who were slaughtered by Jews?

God bless you oo. Yet. The Jews are now their best friend. Not only those genocide. But even Jesus that's their own God was killed by the Jews. . Yet they'll never leave the Jews neck.

Mamilla Pool

By Israel Shamir

Things move really fast nowadays. Just yesterday we hardly dared to call the Israeli policy of official discrimination against Palestinians by the harsh word ‘apartheid’. Today, as Sharon’s tanks and missiles pound defenceless cities and villages, the word barely suffices. It has become an unjustified insult to the white supremacists of South Africa. They, after all, did not use gun-ships and tanks against the natives, they did not lay siege to Soweto. They did not deny the humanity of their kaffirs. The Jewish supremacists made it one better. They have returned us, as if by magic wand, to the world of Joshua and Saul.

As the search for the right word continues, the courageous Robert Fisk proposes calling the events in Palestine a ‘civil war’. If this is civil war, a lamb slaughter is a bullfight. The disparity of forces is just too large. No, Virginia, it is not ‘civil war’, it is creeping genocide.

This is the point in our saga, where the good Jewish guy is supposed to take out his hanky and exclaim: “How could we, eternal victims of persecutions, commit such crimes!” Well, do not hold your breath waiting for this line. It happened before and it can happen again, for the mad idea of being the only Chosen ones, the idea of supremacy, whether of race or religion, is the moving force behind genocides. If you believe God chose your people to dominate the world, if you think others but subhuman, you will be punished by the same God whose name you took in vain. Instead of a gentle frog, he would turn you into a murderous maniac.

When the Japanese got a whiff of this malady in the 1930s, they raped Nanking and ate the liver of their prisoners. Germans, obsessed by the Aryan superiority complex, filled Baby Yar with corpses. As thoughtful readers of Joshua and Judges, the father pilgrim-founders of the United States tried on the ‘Chosen’ crown and succeeded in nearly exterminating the Native American peoples.

The Jewish chosen-ness led to genocide time and again. Outside of Jerusalem’s Jaffa gate (Bab al-Halil), there was once a small neighbourhood called Mamilla, destroyed by real-estate developers just a few years ago. In its place they created a kitschy ‘village’ for the super-rich, abutting the plush Hilton Hotel. A bit further away there is the old Mamilla cemetery of the Arab nobles and the Mamilla Pool, a water reservoir dug by Pontius Pilate. During the development works, the workers came upon a burial cave holding hundreds of sculls and bones. It was adorned by a cross and the legend: ‘God alone knows their names’. The Biblical Archaeology Review, published by the Jewish American Herschel Shanks, printed a long feature[i] by the Israeli archaeologist Ronny Reich on this discovery.

The dead were laid to their eternal rest in AD 614, the most dreadful year in the history of Palestine until the Twentieth Century. The Scottish scholar Adam Smith, wrote in his Historical Geography of Palestine: “until now, the terrible devastation of 614 is visible in the land, it could not be healed”.

By 614 Palestine was a part of the Roman successor state, the Byzantine Empire. It was a prosperous, predominantly Christian land of well-developed agriculture, of harnessed water systems and carefully laid terraces. Pilgrims came in flocks to the Holy places. The Constantine-built edifices of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives and of the Holy Sepulchre were among the man-made wonders of the world. The Judean wilderness was enlivened by eighty monasteries, where precious manuscripts were collected and prayers offered. The Fathers of the church, St Jerome of Bethlehem and Origen and Eusebius of Caesarea, were still a living memory. One of the best Palestinian writers, on a par with the Minor Prophets, blessed John Moschos, just completed his Spiritual Meadow.

There was also a small, wealthy Jewish community living in their midst, mainly in Tiberias on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Their scholars had just completed their version of the Talmud, the codification of their faith, Rabbinic Judaism; but for instruction they deferred to the prevailing Jewish community in Persian Babylonia.

II

In 614 local Palestinian Jews allied with their Babylonian co-religionists and assisted the Persians in their conquest of the Holy Land. 26,000 Jews participated in the onslaught. In the aftermath of the Persian victory, the Jews perpetrated a massive holocaust of the Gentiles of Palestine. They burned the churches and the monasteries, killed monks and priests, burned books. The beautiful basilica of Fishes and Loaves in Tabgha, the Ascension on the Mount of Olives, St Stephen opposite Damascus Gate and the Hagia Sion on Mt Zion are just at the top of the list of perished edifices. Indeed, very few churches survived the onslaught. The Great Laura of St Sabas, tucked away in the bottomless Ravine of Fire (Wadi an-Nar) was saved by its remote location and steep crags. The Church of the Nativity miraculously survived: when Jews commanded its destruction, the Persians balked. They perceived the Magi mosaic above the lintel as the portrait of Persian kings.

This devastation was not the worst crime. When Jerusalem surrendered to the Persians, thousands of local Christians became prisoners of war and were herded to the Mamilla Pool area. The Israeli archaeologist Ronny Reich writes:

They were probably sold to the highest bidder. According to some sources, the Christian captives at Mamilla Pond were bought by Jews and were then slain on the spot.

The Oxford Professor Henry Hart Milman’s History of the Jews describes it in stronger terms:

It had come at length, the long-expected hour of triumph and vengeance; and the Jews did not neglect the opportunity. They washed away the profanation of the holy city in Christian blood. The Persians are said to have sold the miserable captives for money. The vengeance of the Jews was stronger than their avarice; not only did they not scruple to sacrifice their treasures in the purchase of these devoted bondsmen, they put to death all they had purchased at a lavish price. It was a rumour of the time that 90,000 perished.

An eyewitness to the massacre, Strategius of St Sabas, was more vivid:

Thereupon the vile Jews… rejoiced exceedingly, because they detested the Christians, and they conceived an evil plan. As of old they bought the Lord from the Jews with silver, so they purchased Christians out of the reservoir… How many souls were slain in the reservoir of Mamilla! How many perished of hunger and thirst! How many priests and monks were massacred by the sword! How many maidens, refusing their abominable outrages, were given over to death by the enemy! How many parents perished on top of their children! How many of the people were brought up by the Jews and butchered, and became confessors of Christ! Who can count the multitude of the corpses of those who were massacred in Jerusalem!’

Strategius estimated the victims of the holocaust at 66,000.

In plain prose, the Jews ransomed the Christians from the hands of the Persian soldiers for good money to slaughter them at Mamilla Pool, ‘and it ran with blood’. Jews massacred between 60,000 and 90,000 Palestinian Christians in Jerusalem alone, almost 1.5 million in today’s values (the total earth’s population was according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica about 300 million, twenty times smaller than today). A few days later, the Persian military understood the magnitude of the massacre and stopped the Jews.

III

To his credit, the Israeli archaeologist Ronny Reich does not try to shift the blame for the massacres onto the Persians, as it is usually done nowadays. He admits that ‘the Persian Empire was not based on religious principles and was indeed inclined to religious tolerance’. This good man is clearly unsuitable to write for the Washington Post. That paper’s correspondent in Israel would have had no trouble describing the massacre as ‘retaliatory strike by the Jews who suffered under Christian rule’.

The holocaust of the Christian Palestinians in year 614 is well documented and you will find it described in older books. It has been censored out of modern guides and history books. Elliott Horowitz described, in his brilliant expose of the Jewish apologia[ii] how almost all Jewish historians suppressed the facts and re-wrote history. The cover-up continues even now. Recent Israeli publications attach the blame to the Persians, as they push the responsibility for Sabra and Shatila massacre onto the Lebanese Maronites. Horowitz writes:

Raul Hilberg, in The Destruction of the European Jews, asserted that “preventive attack, armed resistance, and revenge are almost completely absent in two thousand years of Jewish ghetto history”. Avi Yona, a leading Israeli historian, Leon Polyakov, author of History of Anti-Semitism (published at the expense of Marc Rich, the thief – ISH) and many others glossed over the holocaust of 614, kept silent or denied it completely. Benzion Dinur, a former director of the Holocaust Museum Yad va-Shem, told his readers euphemistically, in language that might have offended him if used with regard to Jews, that “recalcitrant Christians were firmly held in check’.

As a rule, Jewish historical and ideological writing is notoriously unreliable and apologetic, Horowitz shows. Granted, ‘not all Jews’, vide Horowitz, Finkelstein and other wonderful men, but they would be the first to agree with the truth of the above. The feeling of self-righteousness and perpetual victim-hood reinforced by a tendentious, distorted historical narrative is a source of mental disease, an obsession common to many modern Jews. This obsession intoxicates Jews and gives them unusual strength in promoting their own distorted narrative. In a way, this massive distortion of reality turns Jews into victorious berserks of ideological struggle. Still, while being a successful strategy, it is a mental disease, a danger to the souls of Jews and to the lives of others.

The Jews are not unique. Germans were intoxicated by the injustice of Versailles, and Adolf Hitler voiced it. Eric Margolis of the Toronto Sun[iii] wrote about Armenians inflamed by the story of their holocaust. They massacred thousands of their peaceful Azeri neighbours in the 1990s, and uprooted 800,000 native non-Armenians. ‘It’s time to recognize all the world’s horrors’, Margolis concludes. It is time to recognise the danger of inflammatory and one-sided narrative, I would add. The same system of tendentious reality-distorting narrative was deployed by the activists of militant feminism, communism, psychoanalysis, neo-conservatism, neo-liberalism, Zionism and a plethora of smaller movements as the means to enrage and intoxicate supporters for the ideological struggle.

As a result, we live in a psychotic, sick world. Our only system of communication, the media, is the enforcer of the malady and leads us to our perdition. It is necessary to promote balanced, alternative discourse in order to return to the common sense. Since the Jews have become so prominent in the modern world, the lopsided Jewish discourse has to be deconstructed and the crown of martyrdom carefully removed.

The tragic events of 614 should be returned into historical narrative, for it will help the Jews to heal their paranoid delusion. Without this knowledge one cannot understand the provisions of the treaty between the Jerusalemites and Caliph Omar ibn Khattab, concluded in year 638. In the Sulh al Quds, as this treaty of capitulation is called, Patriarch Sofronius demanded, and the powerful Arab ruler concurred to protect the people of Jerusalem from the ferocity of the Jews.

The genocide of the AD 614 was the most horrible, but not the only, genocide wreaked by Jews in those troubled years. Though the biblical story of the Canaan conquest by Joshua is just a story, it influenced Jewish souls. The Sixth Century was a century of strong Jewish influence, and it had more than its fair share of genocide.

Just a few years before 614, in 610, the Jews of Antioch massacred Christians. The Jewish historian Graetz wrote:

[The Jews] fell upon their Christian neighbours and retaliated for the injuries which they had suffered; they killed all that fell into their hands, and threw their bodies into the fire, as the Christians had done to them a century before. The Patriarch Anastasius, an object of special hate, was shamefully abused by them, and his body dragged through the streets before he was put to death.

For Graetz, as for IDF spokesmen, Jews always kill ‘in retaliation’. This dogma was not invented by CNN and Sharon: it is deeply rooted in the Jewish psyche as the ultimate defence. This historian (like other Jewish historians) did not care to mention that

The Jews of Antioch disembowelled the great Patriarch Anastasius, forced him to eat his own intestines; they hurled his genitals into his face.[iv]