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Randy Fine says Israel has the right to bomb Lebanon for as long as it wants, claiming it is targeting Hezbollah, not Lebanon. According to Fine, Lebanon does not even deserve to be included in a ceasefire. Randy Fine wants to witness Israel annihilate the Christians in Lebanon.

Terrible looting, massacres of the Greek Christians, and enslavements that lasted for three days accompanied the capture of Nicosia by the Turks in 1570. The Muslims seized and destroyed everything in their path, even the churches. They cut off the heads of even old men to test their swords, while they dragged others into captivity, especially those they judged could bring them great profit. In the end, they set up a slave market where they sold the beautiful Greek boys and girls. The Turks themselves boasted that their looting surpassed that of Constantinople. After the fall of Famagusta (6-8 August 1571), the Turks stripped the Venetian defender of the city, Marcantonio Bragadin, placed him on a cow, and paraded him in humiliation to the sound of drums and the shouts of the Ottomans. They then threw him down and flayed him alive. They filled his skin with straw, hung it from the mast of the galley belonging to the captain of Rhodes, while they cut his body into pieces and hung them from the ship’s cannons. The galley then sailed along the coasts of Syria, so that the victors could seal their… triumph in this way. In 1571, the Turks completed the conquest of Cyprus. The spoils were enormous. Among other things, they captured many Greek girls, whom they boarded onto a ship bound for the slave markets. Among them was the noble-born Maria the Synkletiki (Maria the Senator’s Daughter), who stood out for her beauty. In order to spare both herself and the other girls the humiliation of being sold, she found a way to set fire to the ship’s gunpowder magazine. The explosion that followed was terrible. All the girls and the Turkish crew perished. She chose death over slavery.

Terrible looting, massacres of the Greek Christians, and enslavements that lasted for three days accompanied the capture of Nicosia by the Turks in 1570. The Muslims seized and destroyed everything in their path, even the churches. They cut off the heads of even old men to test their swords, while they dragged others into captivity, especially those they judged could bring them great profit. In the end, they set up a slave market where they sold the beautiful Greek boys and girls. The Turks themselves boasted that their looting surpassed that of Constantinople. After the fall of Famagusta (6-8 August 1571), the Turks stripped the Venetian defender of the city, Marcantonio Bragadin, placed him on a cow, and paraded him in humiliation to the sound of drums and the shouts of the Ottomans. They then threw him down and flayed him alive. They filled his skin with straw, hung it from the mast of the galley belonging to the captain of Rhodes, while they cut his body into pieces and hung them from the ship’s cannons. The galley then sailed along the coasts of Syria, so that the victors could seal their… triumph in this way. In 1571, the Turks completed the conquest of Cyprus. The spoils were enormous. Among other things, they captured many Greek girls, whom they boarded onto a ship bound for the slave markets. Among them was the noble-born Maria the Synkletiki (Maria the Senator’s Daughter), who stood out for her beauty. In order to spare both herself and the other girls the humiliation of being sold, she found a way to set fire to the ship’s gunpowder magazine. The explosion that followed was terrible. All the girls and the Turkish crew perished. She chose death over slavery.

Never forget.