Beststellerautor Tom Holland will eine Geschichte über »Krieg und Frieden« in Roms »Goldenem Zeitalter« vorlegen. An diesem Ziel schreibt er allerdings vorbei. Eine Rezension

»Pax« überzeugt weniger als frühere Bücher des Autors zur römischen Geschichte – trotz oder vielleicht gerade wegen seiner enormen Sachkenntnis. Eine Rezension (Rezension zu Pax von Tom Holland)#Rom #Geschichte #römisch #Antike #Militärgeschichte #Krieg #Verteidigung #Italien #Mittelalter #Limes #Imperium #PaxRomana #Kaiser #Kultur #Götter #Hadrian #Nero #SPQR
»Pax«: Blutiger Frieden

[T]he #Christmas story actually is a Palestinian story, par excellence. It talks about a family in Nazareth, in the north of #Palestine, that is ordered by an imperial decree of the Romans to evacuate to Bethlehem, to go there and register. And this is exactly what our people in #Gaza has been experiencing these 75 days. It talks about Mary, the pregnant woman, on the run, exactly like 50,000 women in Gaza who are actually displaced. Jesus was born actually as a #refugee.
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And you have this message that the angels declared here, “Glory to God in the highest, #peace on Earth”, which was actually a critique of the #empire, because glory belongs to the Almighty and not to the mighty. And the peace that #Jesus came to proclaim is not the peace, the Pax Romana, the peace that is based on #subjugation and #military operation, but on human #dignity, #equality and #justice. And this is actually what we call for.

— Rev. Mitri Raheb, source

#Gaza #Palestine #genocide #Christmas #PaxAmericana #PaxRomana