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Queen of the Night

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“إننا ما دمنا لا نفكر السياسة في قياس دولة ما ومجتمع ما ماضون نسبح في فراغ يبتلعنا ونحن نزعم تعقّله والسيطرة عليه، فإذ نستعيض عن الدول بما نظنّه الصحّ والخطأ العائمين في سديم، نكون كمن يلعب كرة القدم قبل أن يرسم الملعب.”

“Appeasement as a policy soon failed. The powerful Babylonian empire, desiring the vast treasures stored in Jerusalem’s Temple, conquered the Holy Land in 586 BCE—razing the building to its foundations. The once glorious city of Jerusalem lay in ruins, a physical embodiment of a spiritual collapse. The Babylonians seized not only the Temple’s material wealth but also carted off its human capital, taking the Israelites’ priests, scholars, and skilled elite back to the court in Babylon—where the exiles wept by its rivers.”