Sixty-three years ago, after 5000 years of bloodshed, something remarkable happened. The United Nations voted into independent statehood a tiny piece of land no larger than New Jersey. That land was Israel.
The land that is now Israel has been a source of contention since the beginning of recorded time. Nations from the Philistines to Alexander the Great, from Rome to the British Empire, even to Hitler have vied to own it. In a Q&A session recently, someone suggested a reason for such acrimony: religion. But "religion" was not a source of contention long ago. In biblical times, there was monotheism - the worship of one deity - and paganism, or the worship of many deities, as the Egyptians had done.
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