04-01 Internal Unity
My Jewish grandfather, who was orthodox (whatever that means), was always telling me not to mix meat with dairy. Apparently, this is Jewish law and has its origins from something in Exodus in the Old Testament, where it states that you “can’t boil a goat in its mother’s milk”. Now his wife, my grandmother, was…
04-02 The Palestinians
The secret to the never-ending dispute between the Israelis and the Palestinians is time. Lots of time to pass, so that most of their citizens can forget their religion. At some period in the future, everyone in the West Bank and Gaza will become a citizen of Israel. There is only one long-term solution, and…
04-03 The Shia Crescent
The most memorable component of our two-week tour of the Soviet Union in 1987 was the war memorials commemorating the slaughter following the German invasion in WW2. People may not remember the geopolitics of war, but they never forget the deaths of family and friends. And the brides in the communities we visited always had…