Snow falls on the Holy Land

Click on Historic snow fall turns Holy Land into the scenes we see on Christmas cards for more pictures from the U.K.’s Daily Mail.  Hat tip to naked capitalism.

A brief history of the Holy Land

Click on Who’s Killing Who? A Viewer’s Guide for background on this animation.

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Mark Twain on the West Bank settlements

The conversation is from Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894)