Hello, this is Paul Billington presenting another edition of The Bible in the News. Israel is always in the News - at least that has been the case since the modern nation of Israel was established in 1948, and even before that there was the migration of Jews to the land of Palestine leading to the Balfour Declaration, and then to the British Mandate following the First World War. Whenever Israel is in the news today this background can never be lost sight of.
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