Good points in Bruce Thornton's
Good points in Bruce Thornton's "Bad Habits in the Middle East." The important role that ideas of God play in the Middle East, and the fundamentally different worldview produced by moral and intellectual submission to those ideas, is too often overlooked in political discussions of the Middle Eastern problem.
What Thornton misses, though, is that ideas of God are equally important when considering Israeli responses to their situation. The other "big question," as he puts it, is whether Israel is ready to fully reconcile itself with the modern tendency to view the attempted creation of ethnically pure states as ethically dubious.
