Posted on 04/13/2016 4:15:56 AM PDT by SJackson
The 12-centimeter high statue confiscated by the PA is a sculpture of King Herod's lover valued at nearly a million dollars.
Security Services (PPS) arrested Monday night three Palestinians who tried to smuggle an ancient statue of King Herod's lover from the West Bank city of Tulkarm into Israel.
A statement released by the PPS following the incident read: "Based on intelligence information, security forces burst on Sunday into a home in Zeita, a village in north Tulkarm, and carried out a complicated security operation, during which they arrested three archaeologists and confiscated the statue."
According to the statement, the archaeologists held negotiations with an Arab-Israeli merchant aimed at selling the statue for $600,000.
The PPS stated that "the operation is part of the tireless efforts invested by the PA to protect archaeological treasures and prevent their smuggling to Israel, which attempts to distort and steal Palestinian history."
The 12-centimeter high statue confiscated by the PA is a sculpture of King Herod's lover valued at nearly a million dollars.
Born in 74 BCE in Idumea, south of Judea, King Herod reigned in Judea for 33 years, during which he reconstructed the Second Temple. He had ten wives, but his true love was Mariamne, the last princess of the Hasmoneans, who were Herod's biggest enemy.
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Not sure how an Arab smuggling an artifact into Israel to sell to another arab falls under distort and steal Palestinian history.
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Thanks SJackson.
Guilty!!!
She’s no Dawn Wells
So the Palestinians admit that Herod, King of the JEWS, ruled that land in the very low AD years.
Seems that Israel DOES have the rights to all that land and that “Palestine” doesn’t really exist.
Herod was from Idumaea, the former Edom—he was a descendant of Esau, Jacob’s twin brother. I don’t think the Jews of the time regarded Herod as truly Jewish, even if the Idumaeans had adopted Judaism.
But he was the recognized king of the Jews of that time. Still establishes a JEWISH country on that land at that time.
12 cm, under 5”. Not much of a statue. More of a figurine.
That’s why, according to the Gospel according to Matthew, Herod was upset when the Magi asked where the newborn King of the Jews was. By the time the Gospel was written, there was no longer a reigning king of the Jews since the Romans had turned the area into a Roman province.
I can’t remember the name of the show, but they had a neat tale about two sketchy archaeologists who find the body of Lot’s wife. They toss it into the back of their pickup truck, intending to “sell it for millions”.
They can’t legally take it out of the area so they concoct a scheme to wait until until nightfall. Almost at the border, there’s a drenching rainstorm where the fierce winds blow away the protecting tarp cover . . .
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