If Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was looking out through the windows of his Jerusalem residence on December 30, he may have thought that he was having what the sleep experts call a "lucid dream".

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These costumed protesters--some dressed in replica knight's helmets and chainmail body armor--gathered in front of the Prime Minister's Jerusalem residence on December 30. Crusader battle reenactors are one of the groups that are miffed at their government's plan to establish a new housing project to accommodate some 10,000 people from Israel's Druze demographic. The current plan is for the new housing project to be sited upon the same fields where Crusaders clashed with Saladin's Muslim Army in 1187 in the battle known as the "Horns of Hattin".

http://www.al-monitor.com/p...in-battle-build.html


Posted for the sake of oddity, and because the Crusades have been mentioned on this forum from time to time during discussions that revolve around the Islam-and-Muslims nexus that's always a "popular item" here.

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This will make a good addition to your regular comedy routine.

Do you offer a discount for matinees?

That's not a group--that's a handful.
Here's a group: