This is the Bible in the News brought to you this week by Paul
Billington.
While many of us are wondering how far the current Middle East War
might spread Britain's Tony Blair pressed a few buttons in a speech
given in Los Angeles this week. He connected to the Middle East
crisis--to the Israeli-Palestinian issue and to the much wider issue of
Islamic fundamentalism versus democracy. Mr Blair pressed a few
sensitive buttons--and some of them were right, while others were
decidedly off th...
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