Blood and Soil and Blind Faith in The Holy Land

When we’re vilifying one side or the other for the senseless killing in the Middle East, chances are we’ve got the sides wrong.

When we look at a conflict, we usually try to understand it by cutting along the most apparent identifier that makes a modicum of sense – nationality, ethnicity, religion, whatever.

If anyone’s to blame for the world catching fire, it’s obviously the people over there on the other side!