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A breathtaking and timely discovery

For behold, Your enemies make a tumult;
And those who hate You have lifted up their head.
They have taken crafty counsel against Your people,
And consulted together against Your sheltered ones.
They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation,
That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” (Psalm 83:2-4)
 
Christians [...]

What the Lebanese know

Lebanon’s battered four million people would have to be saints, and then some, to react any differently than they are.
Anger, together with a sense of frustrated impotence, understandably rages as their beautiful country is once again raped and abused. The comparative prosperity they have recently enjoyed, as epitomized in building-boom Beirut, is increasingly being reduced [...]

Keep the smoke out of your eyes

Condoleezza Rice is making her way from Beirut to Jerusalem as I write. The American Secretary of State has come to the Middle East to try and find, in the words of a CNN news anchor, “a sliver of land on which to begin constructing a ceasefire” that will bring an end to the fighting [...]