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in the Diakonikon-Baptistery Mosaic, Mount Nebo, Jordan, 530 CE.
Look how it has the right # of toes - it's the only bird in the world with two toes on each foot!
🆔There was an ostrich subspecies native to the Levant & Arabian Peninsula that persisted into mid-20th c.: Struthio camelus syriacus.
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Enameled gold mounted baroque pearl jewel in form of set with diamonds & rubies
Flemish, 16th c.
55 x 32 mm
Collection of Anna Maria de'Medici (#2556), Treasury of the Grand Dukes, Palazzo Pitti, Florence.

Anna Maria de'Medici had a passion for collecting such baroque pearl curios, each fashioned into different figures that could be animal or human, real or fantastical.

In Farsi, we call the ostrich for Shotor-Morqh (شتر مرغ)which literally means Camel-Chicken, and there a saying about people who act like Israel:


  • They asked the ostrich to lay egg, and it said I am a camel (shotor شتر)
  • They asked it to carry a load, and it said I am a chicken (morgh مرغ)

This is the case with Israel, they are Europeans when it fits them and indigenous to Palestine since their god said they are.

PS. I know the poor Israel was kicked out of the Asian Cup and could not play in their and Europe gave them a chance to be part of the "civilized world" as they say.

#Israel #Europe #Ostrich #Politics #Football #Asia #Hypocrisy
@palestine @israel