A new feature for readers of my essays who do not follow @BillZiegler1947 on Twitter. The week on review, as it were.
A tribute to the late, great Saturday Review
This being my review of yesterday, a Saturday. Cousins is a Bodhisattva for the ages.
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Billum
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Palestine plays the long game.
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Please consider reading one…or two……or them all.
Palestine’s West Bank Archipelago
Shukran jazeelan.
This one needs as many wings as it can get.
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I am republishing this essay; it is always a timely a piece because I was born 8 months before NAKBA.
Please enjoy reading — though “enjoy” is hardly the appropriate verb.
IshmaBill
The three Abrahamic monotheistic faiths — the ones who celebrate the same deity — form something of an isosceles triangle. Two of them feel themselves fated to a certain god-directed purpose, what they share are tales that comprise an Old Testament to Christians and a Torah to the Judaic adherents. The Christians and Judaic adherents are called “People of the Book” by Muslims.
Islam is typically viewed with much disdain by the other two groups. Islam places faith derived from an angel jealously guarded by the Christians: Gabriel. He visited a short while with Mary and was patient enough to give Islam their entire Qur’an, a text that has more shared virtues than differences, but that gets lost when marketing faith to new adherents. Marketers play a large role in selling one faith over others. Commonality doesn’t lead to sales pitch success. A good salesperson emphasizes…
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