Israel seems determined to seal its place in the history books.

That this particular tribal deity is the locus of Western Civilization, which is also circling the drain, if nothing else, goes to show why feedback loops need circuit breakers.

That in the course of the last few thousand years, people haven't figured out that ideals are not absolutes and our Bronze Age tribal affiliations are the essence of our sense of identity does go to show we never much bit into that apple of knowledge.

Not to sound like I don't see the horror of the situation, but my mind just has to step that far back.

The stories of that pediatric ophthalmologist having to operate on kids eyes crowds out much else.