Great report by BBC’s Katya Adler on the increasingly-religious character of the once-secular Israeli army, including of course the infusion of a "crusade" spirit of biblical good versus evil, and of orthodox claims to the West Bank.
Meanwhile, at Harvard’s Middle East Strategies program, which harbors neocon thinking, Robert O Freedman of Baltimore Hebrew University says that the Palestinians turned it into a religious war in the Second Intifada. Ah, you notice the mote in your brother’s eye when you have a beam in your own…
(I confused Harvard’s Middle East Strategies for its Middle Eastern Studies center on first publication. Sorry to all!)
