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Andrew W. Mellon Professor on the Humanities William L. Moran, 64, a specialist on ancient Assyria, and Suzanne D. Moran, 61, administrator of the First Congregational Church in Cambridge, were charged with sexually assaulting their grandchildren from June 1985 to June 1987, said Thomas Samoluk, spokes-person for Middlesex County District Attorney Scott Harshbarger...
Diplomats might find in the Bible some intriguing ideas about a possible peace settlement. Isaiah 19: 24, for example, foresees a day in which "Israel [shall be] the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth." That could be interpreted as the need for a Cairo-Damascus-Jerusalem federation. Ezekiel 47: 22 could be taken to point out that Israelis have a responsibility not just to Jewish immigrants but to the Palestinian Arabs under their jurisdiction: "The strangers that sojourn among you . . . they shall be unto you as the homeborn, [and] they shall have...
...Personal History, one of the six books he has written in four years, Ben-Gurion shows a deep sense of the continuity of Jewish history. Describing the 1948 war of independence, he writes: "We have more than once met Egypt and Assyria, Babylon and Aram, Canaan and Amalek, but always singly; never in 3,500 years was the whole Middle East united against us." When Ben-Gurion first came to Israel from Poland in 1906 under his original name, David Gryn (his Hebrew name means "son of a lion cub"), he found a land "both loved and desolate"-and underpopulated...
History was well along before it occurred to anybody that there were two ways of looking at war. War was war -bloody, awful, sometimes glorious-and the normal way in which a nation established itself in the days when Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria and Persia were harrying each other for territory and tribute. Aggression invariably had the sanction of a deity. The Israelites' takeover of the Canaanites was commanded by Jehovah himself. And wars were usually as total as soldiers with limited technology could make them...
...demands of circumstance. Confident of an unending supply from earth's mighty rivers and timeless seas, man has wasted water and polluted it. Parched by unpredictable droughts, he has migrated thousands of miles to slake his thirst. He has fought over it since ancient times: Sennacherib of Assyria revenged himself on Babylon by dumping debris in the city's canals; today armed Arabs and Israelis challenge each other across the banks of the disputed River Jordan...