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Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty ImagesIn the tumult surrounding the war in Gaza and Israel, it is easy to forget that Hamas code named its surprise attack “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.”Yet this phrase provides the key for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his new war cabinet to prevent the conflict from engulfing the entire Middle East. By making a single simple statement that would give up nothing, Netanyahu could calm Arab fears and even bolster Israel’s delic...

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Celebrating Israel Join Andrew Lawler, author of Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of

The city of Jerusalem is widely thought of as the gateway to heaven. And yet, as the journalist Andrew Lawler reveals in a new book, what lay below the Holy City is almost as intriguing as what many believe awaits above it.

From the blog of Ellis Shuman at The Times of Israel

They were looking for the past. They created the present.

The city of Jerusalem is widely thought of as the gateway to heaven. And yet, as the journalist Andrew Lawler reveals in a new book, what lay below the Holy City is almost as intriguing as what many believe awaits above it.

The city of Jerusalem is widely thought of as the gateway to heaven. And yet, as the journalist Andrew Lawler reveals in a new book, what lay below the Holy City is almost as intriguing as what many believe awaits above it.

A British aristocrat looking for the Ark of the Covenant launched history's most peculiar archaeological dig—and set off a crisis in the Middle East

Andrew Lawler Explores the Historical Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke