JESUS make Qana known for a WEDDING -- iISRAEL for FUNERALS

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Jesus made wine flow for celebration, the Israelis make blood flow for war.

Are the Israelis trying to make some perverse point while they flatten this
ancient town.

[partylessinOhio]

1. I thought this hamlet was of Biblical significance, the spelling is

different so I was not sure. Thank you for confirming it.

[The Deacon]

3. I didn't catch it either

The spelling in my version is: 'Cana'

[gratuitous]

2. I remember the bombing Jesus' birthplace a week or so ago

I wonder if the media will be bringing news of this bombing of the site of Jeseus' first miracle like it did the bombing of Jesus' birthplace? Or will discussion of that be off-limits because of who did the bombing?

[The Deacon]

4. Nope

The media mentioned it because of the irony that two young Arab boys were killed. And that they have no air raid sirens or shelters. I guess a mainly Arab town isn't as important.

[Clark2008]

14. It was Nazareth - where Jesus spent his youth - not Bethlehem

where Jesus was born. Nazareth was bombed, not Bethlehem.

Just a minor correction. :hi:

[Minstrel Boy]

5. Water into wine, wine into blood.

"This is my blood"

[AngryOldDem]

6. That was Cana

Don't think it's the same place. But yeah, when I turned on the news this morning and had to spend about 15 minutes trying to figure out just what happened, I thought I heard that, too, and I thought the same thing.

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10. QANA is the ancient town spelled CANA in english bible. CNN refered to

it last week in its piece on biblical sites in the line of fire.

[Vidar]

7. Good point.

[Euphen]

8. Not the same city.

Cana was in Galilee, and doesn't exist anymore.

[partylessinOhio]

9. Doesn't exist anymore because the most holiest of places were

"given" to Israel?

You cannot wipe out history and say places don't exist anymore.

[Euphen]

13. Doesn't exist because it is not inhabited, and has not even been located.

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11. And how do you define "Galilee" -- very funny.

[Euphen]

15. What's funny? Here's a map.

Edit: Galilee is the area around the Sea of Galilee, now Lake Tiberias.

[Igel]

12. Three "Canas":

One south of Tyre, one in Galilee (Kfar Kana), and the other north of there a ways (Khirbet Kana).

Those Kanas have kaph. Anybody know if Qana has a qoph or a kaph in Hebrew?


Never mind: Just checked Haaretz ... qoph. Different pronunciation, different words.

So there's Kana, and Qaneh. Best not to confuse them.

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16. All 3 sites claim to be the original site of Jesus' miracle

Qana is one possible site for the Biblical Cana, where Jesus is said to have turned water into wine. Qana has long been viewed as a city hated by Israel and visa versa. The notorious "Qana shelling" took place on April 18, 1996.

Amid heavy fighting between the Israeli Defense Forces and Hezbollah during "Operation Grapes of Wrath", a UNIFIL compound in the village was shelled by Israeli artillery going after 800 Lebanese civilians who had taken refuge there to escape the fighting.

Reportedly, 106 were killed and around 116 others injured. Four UNIFIL soldiers were also seriously injured in an episode refered to by Human Rights Watch as "the Qana massacre."