Today there is a brief article at Christianity Today online (“Should we always back Israel?”) referencing some of the differing reactions to the violent clash onboard some boats of a small flotilla bringing aid from Turkey to the Gaza Strip. And then there is the strange case of veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas, who commented to a Jewish reporter that Jews living in Israel should return to Germany and Poland where they came from. Thomas retired today.
A student of the Bible cannot help but be amazed that, after all these millennia, the children of Abraham and the small slice of land on the eastern end of the Mediterranean remain such a fulcrum of major human events.