“It is ridiculous that Israel opens Jerusalem for foreign tourists, while millions of Palestinian Christians and Muslims are being banned from entering their occupied capital,” said Nabil Shaath, a confidant of the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas.” —  We humans do ourselves in with our mouths, and our mouths do in others through their ears.  When hate is the cause, the cause is poison, the body politic, should it care to care for itself, takes appropriate measures.

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Inspiration for that thought: Pomegranate: The Middle East.  “Caught in the middle: Christians in Israel-Palestine.”  Blog.  The Economist, May 12, 2014.

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