- Israel is different. In Israel the great temptation of modernity — assimilation — simply does not exist. Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity. It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language, and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago. You dig the soil and you find pottery from Davidic times, coins from Bar Kokhba, and 2,000-year-old scrolls written in a script remarkably like the one that today advertises ice cream at the corner candy store.
- — Charles Krauthammer, "At Last, Zion" in The Weekly Standard (11 May 1998)
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- "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." ~ A. A. Milne
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