Reading Time 🕘: 17 minutes Religion isn’t the cause of violence in the Gaza, nor is diplomacy the fix. The true root of violence is the cult of victimhood. PART ONE: WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON? We were driving through Israel’s Negev desert. It was October 8 and now we were about 15 miles from the slaughter and kidnappings of… Continue reading
Reading Time 🕘: 14 minutes “The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess. The Lord will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish.” Deuteronomy 28:20 Glad Tidings of Great Joy…. Continue reading
Reading Time 🕘: 20 minutes Traveling across Mesopotamia and the Holy Land a few months back, I took along William Dalrymple’s fine travelogue, From the Holy Mountain. It was meant to be a colorful diversion along the lines of the author’s earlier Middle East offering, In Xanadu, in which he traced the steps of Marco Polo. Xanadu was great fun,… Continue reading
Reading Time 🕘: 11 minutes The White House had been in the hands of a liberal progressive who infuriated religious conservatives…As the contest intensified, the nation became polarized as it had not been in decades. In the middle of it all, a foreign power staked a claim.
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