PA sending firefighters to Israel

Never mind that has anybody realised the irony of Greeks coming to Israel to put out a fire on Chanukah!!!

It seems that no one here has your sense of humour. A problem with empathy, maybe.

Exactly Advis3r! - good point, as we allude to in the (sometimes not sung), last verse of Maoz Tsur.
At least this time the Greeks are our friends.

At least this time the Greeks are our friends.

Erdogan denied that sending Turkey's help to Israel was a sign that relations were getting better. Even Spain sent something and it is one of the most anti-Israeli country in Europe.
In my opinion, it just means that he wants to put himself on par with Israel who offers sending rescue teams each time there is a disaster in Turkey. Otherwise, it would be easy for Israel to put into doubt Turkey's humanitarian principles, say, in the Mavi Marmara affair.

Jon and Advi3er, one ever so slight problem; the Greeks of Maoz Tzur and the Chanucah tale weren't yer actual Greeks. They were Assyrians. Antioch was an Assyrian King.

Not so joemillis, the first word of the penultimate paragraph of Maoz Tzur uses the Hebrew word that is used both in Biblical Hebrew and Modern Hebrew for "Greeks" - יווני
Assyrians were in a completely different part of the near/middle east - the forerunners if todays Syria.

Jon Maoz Tzur is not contemporaneous. It was written some 1300 years after the event, when it was believed that the Maccabees were fighting the Greeks. They weren't. Antioch was a Hellenised Assyrian king -- and yes, Assyria was made up of part of today's Syria and Iraq. There are still people who describe themselves as Assyrians in the north of Syria.