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Nerthus27 days ago

I have been talking about this massacre for years. I am glad people are finally waking up to it.

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Chrisje klompemans27 days ago

The video is largely historically accurate in its core claims**, drawing from primary sources and supported by archaeology, though with the usual caveats of ancient chronicles (exaggerated numbers and polemical bias). The events of 614 AD during the Sassanid Persian conquest of Jerusalem are well-attested. Persian forces under Shahrbaraz captured the city amid the Byzantine–Sassanid War of 602–628. Local Jews (and Jewish fighters from Galilee and elsewhere, numbering in the thousands according to sources) allied with the Persians against Byzantine Christian rule, which had restricted and sometimes persecuted them. Temporary Jewish administration of the city under figures such as Nehemiah ben Hushiel is recorded in sources like Sebeos. The Mamilla Pool massacre is specifically described by the near-contemporary Christian monk Strategius (also called Antiochus Strategos) of Mar Saba, who presents an account based on eyewitness or contemporary testimony: Jews ransomed Christian prisoners from the Persian soldiers and slaughtered them at the pool after they refused to convert and deny Christ, with the pool running with blood. He gives high casualty figures (tens of thousands citywide, with thousands specifically at Mamilla). Similar accounts appear in other Christian sources of the period. The video’s narration of the offer, refusal, purchase, and killing closely matches these reports. Archaeology provides independent corroboration of a large-scale massacre of Christians around this time and location. Israeli archaeologist Ronny Reich excavated a cave near Mamilla (work beginning around 1989–1992) containing a mass burial of hundreds to thousands of individuals. The remains, artifacts (including crosses and coins up to the reign of Phocas, 602–610), demographics (many relatively young people, higher proportion of females), and context identify them as the Christian population of Jerusalem from the early 7th century. Reich and others explicitly linked this to the 614 events described by Strategius. Exact death tolls in the literary sources are almost certainly inflated (common in ancient and medieval accounts), but the existence of a major massacre and mass burial is not in serious dispute. The broader context in the video—the taking of the True Cross and other relics to Persia, events at Tyre, Persian advances into Egypt, the temporary nature of the Jewish-Persian alignment (Persians later restricted Jews and sided more with Christians by around 617), and Heraclius’s later recovery efforts—is also consistent with historical records of the war. **Caveats**: Strategius’s account is a Christian polemical source and exaggerates numbers and possibly the precise degree of Jewish versus Persian agency in the killings. Some modern scholars debate the scale of urban destruction claimed in the chronicles (archaeology does not always match the most dramatic literary descriptions of total ruin). The video presents the Christian chronicle perspective without heavy hedging, which is typical of popular historical retellings. This was a period of intense imperial and religious conflict with violence on multiple sides over centuries. In short, the video recounts a real, documented historical episode rather than invention or pure myth.

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Sean Michael Upton27 days ago

@grok is the video true?

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♀️ 🇮🇷 Dohk-tareh Timsar27 days ago

Why do Muslims hold the keys to the Christian holy site in Jerusalem? Why were Muslims chosen as protectors of this site that is sacred to Christians? Why is it still there?

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G-Plate227 days ago

If only I could download this!

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ᴀ ɴᴏɴ ɢᴇɴᴛʟᴇ ɢᴇɴᴛɪʟᴇ27 days ago

Twitter video downloader om any browser.

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IIlIlIlIIllGaurdianIlIIIllIIll27 days ago

This video is being blocked. Can you find a new source?

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🕳️🐇27 days ago

It’s not all of them. But it’s always them.

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TotalWar27 days ago

This is what jews do, overtly and covertly.

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Sean Michael Upton27 days ago

@grok is this true?

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LittleWeinersBigTrucks27 days ago

This is a lazy ai video

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Judah Abajian27 days ago

HE WAS THE MESSIAH " THE SON OF MAN" WHY WOULD PEOPLE WHO NEVER MET HIM GIVE UP THEIR LIVES TO NOT GIVE UP THEIR FAITH, AND THE ONES WHO HAVE SEEN MIRACLES, CAN YOU IMAGINE.?

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Mehdi DesertFox27 days ago

Aftermath: The carnage left a deep historical scar; decades later, during the 638 CE Treaty of Jerusalem, Christian leadership explicitly demanded protections from the MUSLIM Caliph Omar against future violence associated with the aftermath of the 614 massacre.

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Mint27 days ago

@grok before persian attack on jerusalem did jews lived inside the city with christians, and why did jews opened the doors of the city to persian ennemy ?

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Doomed Noob27 days ago

People underestimate Judaic proselytizing in Late Antiquity. They converted people throughout the Roman Empire (from Spain to Egypt and Syria). Roman politicians warned about it (and so did Jewish rabbis). The idea that jews are Israelites/Hebrews is a myth.

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Owow27 days ago

Can’t believe the Jews saved these Christian’s from the Muslims

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theory of conspiracy27 days ago

And "they" say "they are persecuted ". I say Christians were the most persecuted people in the last 2 millennia. For following the teachings of the son of man.

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Lamm Rsof27 days ago

Rumor says that San Deigo* or "Santiago Matamoros" (Saint James the Moor slayer) went to war against Islam (the Moors) in 644ad. *San Deigo on the west end & 1,950 miles east is Matamoros on the east end.

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Lazaros Zissis27 days ago

That is a great depiction man. Is it on a website somewhere (eg YouTube)?

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Arif27 days ago

It’s a status quo in order to act as neutral guardians and prevent fighting among rival Christian denominations

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Santino D27 days ago

This can’t be true, they’re always innocent…

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perro balls27 days ago

AMERICA WAKE UP...YOU CANNOT BE THIS GULLIBLE....THE ROMANS SAID..THIS PEOPLE BRAG AND LAUGH ABOUT ALL THEY KILL....THEY ARE DIFDERENT FROM OTHER MEN..YET U AMERICANS ARE NOT AWARE OF THE THREAT

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flintflant27 days ago

At the time of the Persian conquest and when Christianity seemed utterly defeated, the pagan Makkan Quraysh rejoice as the Prophet's monotheistic message seemed to go the same fate. Quran revealed verses that predicted the Rum victory soon, which drew further mocking. Came true.

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MicroAggressor🇩🇪✠︎🇺🇦🪖 ✝️27 days ago

Persia was so based before Islam, my god

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