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September 6, 1996
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Yesterday Presient Clinton sent missiles against facilities in
southern Iraq, at Talil and Nasiriya. I wonder whether anyone
besides specialists realize the significance
of these places.
The satellite photo shows the location of the ancient city of
It is ironical that the February 25, 1992 ground attack in the Gulf
War was fought in and around this same site of ancient struggle between the
Sumerians and the Elamites. A military map of the war, covering the same area as the
photo above, is shown here.
This got me thinking and reading about Jewish millearianism.
I've been reading a book by Harold Bloom, author of The
Closing of the American Mind.Bloom says that a good prospect
for hellfire is a nuclear war between Iran and Israel.
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footnotes [1] John Sassoon [2] Harold Bloom. |
Ur of the Chaldees, leading city of Mesopotamia at 2500 BC, and home of the
biblical Abraham. The key to the biblical flood is in the behavior of the three
rivers shown. The Iraq military airfield of Talil, which was devasted by the
allies in the war, is next to the ancient city.
In my model of the world, the Zagros mountains, the mountains of Elam, the
Land of Nod, East of Eden, and the Gabilans are all one.
Recently I came across an interesting book by
an Englishman named 
