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Sounds from Syria
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Sounds from Syria

Mt. Bental, Israel — Standing in a huddle to keep warm against the mountain wind Jan. 4, Hillsdale College students listened to their tour guide describing how Israel had miraculously defeated the Syrian military during the Yom Kippur War in the field below. Then two booms echoed throughout the valley. “Those,” guide Jeremy Collins said,...

Innocent People Exist on Both Sides of Israeli Borders
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Innocent People Exist on Both Sides of Israeli Borders

From the other side of the Atlantic, Americans often attempt to render the complex Israeli-Palestinian conflict black and white. We pit hawks against doves, Islamists against Zionists, aggressors against oppressed, Israel against Palestine, dangerous divisions which lead us to label erroneously good people as evil simply because they fall on the wrong side of a...

Israel is America’s best hope for fighting Islamist extremism
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Israel is America’s best hope for fighting Islamist extremism

Given the rise and persistent threat of terrorism, America’s primary interest—and the West’s interest more generally—in the Middle East should be defeating Islamic extremism. Recent history has proven that monetary support and armed occupation are ineffective methods for curbing the Middle East’s blood thirsty extremists, perhaps the most prominent example being America’s involvement with post-Hussein...

Aramaic Christians inspire hope for the future
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Aramaic Christians inspire hope for the future

We pulled up to a small village known as Bar’am, home to a population of Maronite Christians living less than two miles away from the Lebanese border in northern Israel. As we listened to the story of a man named Shadi, we started to understand the history of his people and their quest for recognition....

Don’t let a church divide the Church
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Don’t let a church divide the Church

For 1,700 years, travelers have finished their pilgrimages at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, honoring Christ’s sacrifice. The church centers around a tomb filled with the light and gratitude of innumerable Christians thanking God for the life that He granted them there. While the church stands as the most important site in Christianity, it...