As much as I'd love to believe this, 'Gaza disarmed' sounds a lot to me like "We'll try this exact same thing again next year".
Uh. I'm afraid I understood none of that. I don't use any Lemmy client, I'm posting straight on Lemmy.world from the browser.
Haven't seen the episode, but the Webley was in very wide use amongst British forces in WW1, so if it featured, it was very likely an intentional nod to the history of the weapon. Or the weapon of the history, whichever you prefer.
It's also a damn fine looking weapon
According to the Romans, Jesus was a nobody. The Romans had a very contentious relationship with the Jews of the period, but generally respected the Jewish faith as an ancient and decorous religion. As such, when Jewish communities by-and-large condemned new Christian cults as a bunch of troublemakers spreading nonsense, Roman authorities were generally content to take the established Jewish communities at their word - when they bothered differentiating between Jews and Christians at all.
Later Roman and Graeco-Roman writers, as Christianity became more known and defined, would criticize Christianity both for its subversive nature (refusing to participate in common religious rituals of the Roman state and local communities) and its blatant disavowal of (what the Romans and Greeks saw as) an ancient and respectable religion (Judaism). Jesus himself would be condemned either as an unexceptional miracleworker of the type that occasionally gained fame in the near-east, as a charlatan or sectarian troublemaker, or as a Jewish religious teacher whose teachings were corrupted by later followers.
Ancient peoples are often very proficient in their craftwork, to a surprising degree to our modern eyes, but the Scythians in particular were renowned by the Greeks for their skill in decorative metalworking. Some absolutely fantastic stuff, their reputation was well-earned!
Hamas attacks against IDF targets often hit and injure civilians as well. Unlike targeted attacks against civilians, such collateral damage is part and parcel of warfare.
“America is not just an idea,” he said solemnly. “It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. It is, in short, a nation.”
It's funny. The people most likely to be 'American exceptionalists' take the one thing that is arguably at least somewhat unusual about America (that we are very much not a nation in the traditional sense) and utterly fucking deny it.
Explanation: When the Americans learned of the Soviet Mig-25 'Foxbat', the US was certain that the high-speed jet shown by the Soviets was, due to its design and the classified nature of its technical details, an ultra-maneuverable ultra-fast fighter jet, and in response, poured money into the F-15 'Eagle' to make it a weapon that could compare to its Soviet counterpart!
Some ten years later a defector landed with a Mig-25 and handed it over to Western intelligence. Turns out, it wasn't maneuverable at all, or a fighter, for that matter. It was an interceptor made for catching nuclear bombers, and had all the maneuverability of stiff cardboard. Very fast, though! C'est la vie!
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