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This book I heard about on NPR (for what that is worth). Is Jersualem the solution for man and violence where the Muslim and the Christian and the Jew can lay claim to it and solve the violence that is all too common in the histoy of the three Religions that claim this city. Read this review and others and read it if you have the time.
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. "Oh, Jerusalem, how often have I wept for you!" laments the psalmist. And well we should weep. For millennia, Jerusalem has been the meeting point of religion and culture, traditionalism and modernity, and the apparently inevitable violence that erupts over a particular faith's exclusive claim to the city. Carroll, author of the critically acclaimed Constantine's Sword, has given us one of the broadest and most balanced accounts in recent years of the city of King David—one centered on the concept of "sacred violence" as a path to redemption, a vision long engendered by Jerusalem and all that it represents. But he has another agenda—to analyze and interpret the intersections of history, theology, philosophy, and popular culture in a way that offers hope of an emerging religion that "celebrate life, not death." Given the long history of violence and death surrounding both the physical Jerusalem and the "imagined" city (e.g., America as a "city on a hill"), is this even possible? The former Catholic priest remains optimistic that humanity will find a way to resolve the conflicts that are so much a part of its story. Conceptually profound, richly detailed, and wonderfully realized, this book brings to life the dynamic story of the divided city. (Mar.)
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Do all parties want peace or are certain of the parties believe violence is the only way and see themselves as weak if they come peacefully to the table. If Islamists believe that they will meet a pacificist Israel when they hold out and continue violence, they will meet a different adversary now than during World War II.
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