The Roman historian Tacitus once chronicled the last speech of Calgacus, a Caledonian chieftain rousing his troops to resist the foreign invaders of their land. “To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire,” Calgacus said of the Romans; “they make a wasteland and call it peace (ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant).” Much the same might be said of the contemporary invaders of the former Roman province of Palaestina Prima. The Israelis spent 470 days feverish...| n+1
Wintry, misty view from our loungeroom window What a fabulous reading month! Now that the home renovation projects are all-but completed, and the wintry weather has truly settled in, I have had ple…| This Reading Life