The Iraqi transport minister has harnessed the works of a Jewish author of books about ancient astronauts to strengthen his claim that the first airport was built 5,000 years ago in the southern Iraqi region of Dhi Qar, and that it was from there that ancient Sumerian spaceships set off to explore other planets.And guess who the aliens from Nibiru are. That's right: the Nephilim.
“If you do not believe me, read the book of the great historian Zecharia Sitchin, who was an expert in Sumerian studies,” Kazem Finjan told various Iraqi TV channels last week, in reference to the Russian-born American who was raised in mandatory Palestine and who moved to New York in 1952 after working as an editor and journalist in Israel.
In his 1976 book “The 12th Planet” and its sequels, Sitchin, a self-taught Sumerian expert, described a planet called Nibiru that was home to extra-terrestrial beings, who came to earth some 450,000 years ago on a colonial mission and subsequently interbred with native earthlings.
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Do watch the MEMRI video embedded below. And keep an eye on the guy on the right in the light jacket, who looks like he can barely restrain himself from cracking up during the minister's speech.
Some recent past posts on various goofy ideas about the Nephilim are here, here, here, here, here, and here. And this one deals with some real information about the Nephilim legend and also with the use of that legend in the 2014 Noah movie.
