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My first trip to Israel in 1967 was exciting, electrifying, and extraordinary. It was shortly after the Six-Day War, and there were burned-out Egyptian tanks, half-tracks, and personnel carriers off every road outside Jerusalem. On the Golan Heights, I walked on recently cleared paths that still had unexploded land mines in the area. In fact, […]
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Leave a Comment (Sennacherib ruled the Assyrian Empire (704-681 B.C.), expanding and improving the ancient city of Nineveh located on the East bank of the Tigris River opposite the modern city of Mosul, Iraq. Nineveh had a population of almost 150,000 people, making it the greatest city in the world. Feeling invincible, Sennacherib conquered Egypt and then attacked […]
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Leave a Comment (The Hebrew people are the most resilient, restless, remarkable, and renowned people in the world. They have produced more Nobel Prize laureates than any nation and produced many great inventions. They took a small, barren land, strewn with rocks, and produced a garden out of a desert. The Hebrew prophet Isaiah promised in Isaiah 35:1, […]
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