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To: longnshort who wrote (26257)5/21/2012 6:03:28 AM
From: 2MAR$1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 69300
 
What you describe in the Ukraine then is a horror , there have been so many unimaginable similar kinds of intentional human cruelties . And for that time even the Americans were proud & highly valued the way the patriot Red Army so bravely defending itself tenaciously defeating the Germans on their frozen land then swarmed west like a tide taking no prisoners (& raping 100's of 1000's as they went) to the cheers of all .

We can look back on that now & see the immense crime but in white-heat of war what & how were human values determined but by the dictates of the context of what was considered "good for the cause" then . That information was not generally known at that time & for some even to be ignored because they imagined some greater good , this is what you see happening all down thru history .

Just previous to outbreak of the Jewish civil war 80bc immediately preceding the birth of Jesus we see the Egyptian Pharoah attacking and defeating Jewish King Jannaeus in another instance of man's wrath & terrible action of war including cannibalism :
en.wikipedia.org

After a failed siege against Gaza, Jannaeus struck a phony league of friendship with the Egyptian co-ruler Ptolemy Lathyrus. In reality Jannaeus sought the assistance of Lathyrus’ mother, Cleopatra III, against her son. When Lathyrus learned of this treachery, he took out his fury on Judea. After defeating Jannaeus near the Jordan River, Lathyrus’ soldiers slaughtered fleeing Jewish troops. Afterwards, Lathyrus attacked a small village in Judea with utter malice. The Egyptian troops strangled women and children. Then the deceased were cut into pieces, boiled in cauldrons, and eaten as a sacrifice.

Was it for Gods/God & theology or for really commanding strategic high ground & trade routes combined with percieved threats & each responding to personal treacheries/insult and human emotions ? All based on the needs to keep open access to trade, goods & material which consisted the mode of its very survival in reality ? We see the fundamental needs of the tribe, nation, individual expressed here the mandate of all , shake the jar even slightly what rises to the top , its always confined to what we see exactly mirrored in "Nature".

*Of course whether the Egyptians actually committed cannibalism or was just an added propaganda could also be considered , this happens routinely in war, why so important we have succeded now with embedded journalism as much as possible . In the madrassas schools of Afghanistan & Pakistan it was taught back @ 9/11 , it was the Jews that committed the act , that they & the Americans were terrible monsters coming to eat them .