Like everyone else in the world, I read the news from Israel with shock. How one of the world’s most elite military and intelligence forces failed to avert this tragedy is hard to fathom. The news is gruesome and surreal; we’re watching the inevitable and the prophetic unfold.
While we were busy watching baseball, watching children, or fuming at the clownish disarray of our own government, a demarcation glowed in Israel. Every phone, every television, and every newspaper lit up and brought tiny, archeological Israel to the forefront of conflict in one modern, yet very ancient, moment.