Emily Squires
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But the US State department officials were stonewalling, informed both by their own antisemitism and anti-foreigner outlook. They hid behind claims that refugees might include Communists and spies; the Jews could, they said, become a
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“If there was any crying to do, he would do it on his own. He wouldn’t want anyone else to see him like that.”
― John Lennon: The Life
― John Lennon: The Life
“Had he not been caught between the two giants of Persian history, Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great, Cambyses might now be better remembered for playing a significant part in Persia’s history.”
― Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
― Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
“Often they were too ashamed to show their faces and knew they would be treated as outcasts. Or their own families had sold them into slavery in the first place.”
― The Whistleblower
― The Whistleblower
“In 538 bce he decreed that the temple in Jerusalem should be rebuilt at his own expense and that the treasures plundered from the sacred sanctuary by Nebuchadnezzar should be returned to the house of God. The captive Jews (like all other foreign deportees) were free to go home.”
― Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
― Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
“Truth in war is an illusion, a deception made to bolster one side and denigrate the other.”
― Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
― Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
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