Will Gaza Be Solved?

If you ever go to Israel, there’s a beautiful town on the Mediterranean coast about 10 mikes from the northern border called Naharyia. You can sit at a nice, outdoor restaurant, and as you’re eating your pizza and gazing out towards the Mediterranean, all of a sudden you’ll notice the ruins of what had evidently been a harbor built by the Romans to accommodate the ships which brought wheat from the interior back to Rome.

And the first time you see this scene, you’ll say to yourself what I said to myself, which was — Holy shit! I’m sitting where Western Civilization connected one location with another in this vast expanse three thousand years ago.

The Romans called the Mediterranean ‘mare nostrum,’ — our sea, and they settled and fought over the entire coastline for hundreds of years.

Don’t believe me? You can still see the remnants of one of those great battles — Carthage — on the northern tip of Tunisia, a quick, 5-minute ride from downtown Tunis (see pic above.)

When the Roman Empire became thoroughly Christianized, about four centuries after the death of Christ, the basic culture of Western Civilization became synonymous with this state religion, which was enforced in the colonies as well.

This religious and cultural presence was threatened two centuries later with the spread of Islam, which not only…