Monday, April 6, 2026
Archaeologists find 2,100-year-old bullet in Israel with ‘sarcastic’ message to enemies
Archaeologists have uncovered a 2,100-year-old sling bullet in Israel inscribed with a pointed message aimed at enemy forces.
The scientists found the bullet in a necropolis area along an ancient road at Hippos, once a prominent bishop’s seat during the Byzantine era. The city was known as Susita during the Hellenistic period, which lasted from 323 B.C. to about 31 B.C.
The projectile, which officials date to the second century B.C., was carved with the Greek word “Learn,” according to a press release obtained by Fox News Digital.
A picture of the ancient, oval-shaped lead sling bullet shows faint traces of the Greek script.
Michael Eisenberg, a University of Haifa archaeologist who recently published his findings in the journal PEQ along with colleague Arleta Kowalewska, believes the phrase was a “sarcastic” taunt, he said.
“At Hippos alone, 69 such projectiles have been identified so far, but this is the first in the world to bear the inscription ‘Learn,'” Eisenberg said, per the March release.
“This represents local sarcastic humor on the part of the city’s defenders, who wished to teach their enemies a lesson with a wink: ‘Learn your lesson!’”
The artifact is roughly 3.2 centimeters long and 1.95 centimeters wide, weighing 38 grams.
Excavators observed signs of impact damage on the projectile and believe it once weighed 45 grams.
The projectile was likely “fired by the city’s defenders from the city walls toward the enemy advancing to besiege the city,” officials said.
“To find a sling bullet with an inscription is very rare; to find this Greek word on a sling bullet is the first time in the world.”
Lead bullets were considered a cheap but lethal form of ammunition at the time.
“Sling bullets were produced by casting lead in stone molds in a relatively simple process that could be carried out even during a military campaign,” the release noted.
The artifact is roughly 3.2 centimeters long and 1.95 centimeters wide, weighing 38 grams.
Excavators observed signs of impact damage on the projectile and believe it once weighed 45 grams.
The projectile was likely “fired by the city’s defenders from the city walls toward the enemy advancing to besiege the city,” officials said.
“To find a sling bullet with an inscription is very rare; to find this Greek word on a sling bullet is the first time in the world.”
Lead bullets were considered a cheap but lethal form of ammunition at the time.
“Sling bullets were produced by casting lead in stone molds in a relatively simple process that could be carried out even during a military campaign,” the release noted.
He also noted the significance of where it was found, which strongly suggests it was fired during a siege.
“The bullet’s location near the ancient main road below the city’s fortifications, in addition to the impact mark on the bullet, supplies a colorful reconstruction of the defenders shooting the bullet toward the besieging forces advancing towards the city,” Eisenberg said.
The discovery adds to a growing list of major archaeological finds at Hippos.
Excavations unearthed a 1,600-year-old Christian care center for the elderly at Hippos last year, possibly the world’s oldest nursing home.
Also at Hippos, archaeologists found a trove of ancient jewelry and gold coins last year, thanks to metal detectors.
NPR didn’t quote a single member of Michigan synagogue after attack — but interviewed terrorist’s pals in Lebanon
NPR didn’t manage to quote a single member of the Michigan synagogue that was attacked last month by a crazed Hezbollah-supporting terrorist last month — but did manage to track down his pals 6,000 miles away in Lebanon, a new report reveals.
Now even NPR’s public editor is criticizing the lefty broadcaster for the stunning oversight.
Instead of focusing on the victims in the heinous attack, a March 14 “All Things Considered” segment sent an NPR reporter to the Lebanon hometown of Ayman Ghazali, 41, who just days earlier had rammed his truck into a Jewish preschool at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township.
The FBI later confirmed Ghazali — who killed himself after engaging in a firefight with a security guard — was inspired by the Iran-backed terrorist group.
NPR headlined its article “In a small Lebanese town, grief and fear follow the Michigan synagogue attack,” resulting in listeners quickly calling out the publicly funded outlet for attempting to paint the terrorist and his family in a sympathetic light.
One listener, Batya Ungar-Sargon, wrote sarcastically in a Substack post about the coverage that “NPR found the real victim of an attack on 140 Jewish American babies — and it’s the Hezbollah-infested town in Lebanon that raised a family of terrorists.”
Israel Defense Forces revealed after the attack that Ghazali’s brother was a Hezbollah commander.
Another audience member, Richard Wilkins, took NPR to task for its one-sided coverage that downplayed the brothers’ known association with the terror group.
“NPR’s reaction? Sympathized understanding for the subsequent ‘grief and fear’ in his former hometown. Concealment of then public knowledge that those two brothers were Hezbollah terrorists, in a town full of Hezbollah sympathizers,” he wrote NPR’s public editor Kelly McBride.
McBride began her response defending NPR’s reasoning for its reporting 6,000 miles away in Lebanon.
“The journalistic purpose of the story was to explore the connection between the terror attack on the Michigan synagogue and the family that was killed on the other side of the world,” she wrote.
“Simply documenting that relationship and humanizing the family does not imply that Ghazali’s attempt to kill more than a hundred children was justified.”
However, she admitted that the network fell short in telling the full story.
“This story on this village should not be judged as NPR’s complete coverage of the Michigan synagogue. NPR ran multiple stories on the attack,” she wrote.
“In all of that coverage, voices from Temple Israel are absent. I couldn’t find any stories that quote rabbis, congregation members or the families of the children who had to flee the building.
She also acknowledged that parallel coverage by local news outlets did cover the congregation extensively.
“NPR or Michigan Public Radio pulled away from the story at Temple Israel too soon,” she said.
She added, “when important voices are missing from coverage, it distorts the audience’s perception of everything else.”
Outrage at Officials allowing the Sexual Pervert Eliezer Berland Access to the Kotel while others are being Turned Away
While hundreds of worshippers were turned away due to strict restrictions, it has emerged that among those granted entry to the Western Wall was Eliezer Berland, leader of the “Shuvu Banim" community.
Berland’s entry sparked outrage, particularly in light of his past convictions: In 2016, he was convicted of sexual offenses, and in 2021 he was also convicted of financial crimes, including fraud, exploitation, and money laundering, for which he served a prison sentence.
The incident raised questions among many worshippers who had sought to reach the site but were denied entry due to strict quotas imposed since the start of Operation Roaring Lion on February 28.
While hundreds of worshippers were turned away due to strict restrictions, it has emerged that among those granted entry to the Western Wall was Eliezer Berland, leader of the “Shuvu Banim" community.
The Western Wall Heritage Foundation distanced itself from the incident, stating: “The manner of Rabbi Eliezer Berland’s entry to the Western Wall plaza was carried out by Israel Police - the Western Wall Heritage Foundation did not handle and was not aware of his arrival and entry to the Western Wall."
Police responded to the criticism by saying the entry was approved under procedures allowing access for elderly individuals and those with disabilities: “As in routine times, even during Operation Roaring Lion, Israel Police permits entry to the Western Wall plaza for elderly individuals with mobility limitations and for the disabled, in accordance with the prayer framework approved at the start of the operation."
“The case in question was handled in accordance with this policy, which has been implemented regularly in dozens of similar cases in recent weeks for the benefit of elderly and disabled individuals, in order to allow freedom of worship while maintaining safety restrictions."
Esther Sobel 44 a Nurse Killed by Maimonides Ambulance
A 44-year-old nurse was struck and killed by an ambulance in Brooklyn early Thursday, and two emergency medical technicians have been suspended as authorities investigate the incident.
Police identified the victim as Cherry Cayetano Sobel. She was hit around 6:40 a.m. in the Midwood neighborhood when an ambulance operated by Maimonides Medical Center made a left turn from Avenue O onto Ocean Avenue, officials said.
Authorities said the driver did not stop after the collision. A bystander called 911, and Sobel was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Police believe the driver may not have realized a pedestrian had been struck. No arrests have been made.
A spokesperson for the hospital said the EMTs involved have been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation and expressed condolences to the victim’s family.
Sobel is survived by her husband, Jeff, and two young children, according to family members.
Officials said she lived about a mile from the scene. The case remains under investigation.
Sunday, April 5, 2026
The Damned British Are Responsible for hundreds of thousands of Jewish corpses.
Forty-five British MPs and peers have signed an open letter demanding that Prime Minister Keir Starmer apologize for the Balfour Declaration — the 1917 statement in which Britain expressed support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The letter argues that Britain had “no right” to make such a promise and that it bears “historical responsibility” for the creation of Israel.
This is quite a moral accounting. But if Parliament is in the business of confronting Britain’s historical role in Palestine, there is a far more specific, far more deadly act of British policy that deserves an apology first — one whose consequences can be measured in hundreds of thousands of Jewish corpses.
It is the White Paper of 1939.
In May of that year, with Nazi Germany already in full persecution mode and war weeks away, Neville Chamberlain’s government issued a policy document that capped Jewish immigration to Palestine at just 75,000 people over five years — after which further immigration would require Arab consent. The explicit rationale, stated openly in cabinet discussions, was to preserve Arab goodwill. Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald, who drafted the policy, told his colleagues that Britain “could not afford to forfeit the confidence and friendship of such a large part of the Muslim world.” Chamberlain himself put it even more bluntly: “If we must offend one side, let us offend the Jews rather than the Arabs.”
The timing was catastrophic.
At the very moment the gates of Europe were slamming shut on Jewish life, Britain deliberately locked the one door through which hundreds of thousands might have escaped. Palestine was not merely a desirable destination: for Jews trapped in Poland, Romania, Hungary, and Germany, it was the only realistic option. The United States had its own restrictive quotas. Most of the world had already demonstrated at the 1938 Évian Conference that it was unwilling to absorb Jewish refugees. Palestine, under British administration, was the escape hatch, and Britain sealed it.
The decision was immediately and loudly condemned as a moral catastrophe by the most credible voices in British public life. Winston Churchill, then in the political wilderness, rose in the House of Commons on May 23, 1939, to denounce the policy as a betrayal of solemn commitments. Former Prime Minister Lloyd George called it “an act of perfidy.” The Liberal MP James Rothschild warned his colleagues during the debate itself that for the majority of Jews seeking to reach Palestine, the choice was “migration or physical extinction.” The League of Nations’ Permanent Mandates Commission unanimously concluded the White Paper transgressed Britain’s mandatory obligations - it was a violation of international law.
They were right. And the consequences were exactly what they predicted.
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Killing the biggest LIE that Satmar and Pro-Hamas Groups Keep Touting
Time to kill one of the biggest lies of the Century:
One of Satmar's propaganda tools comes right out of the mouths of Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, that Israel would not exist if not for $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ from the USA.
Of course they take the RBS"O out of the equation!
Facts just killed the lie.
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