... and flourish as a garden." In the midst of squalor, he found the promise of beauty -- beauty that comes from the inside where God and people get together. We all remember in 1993 when Yitzhak Rabin and Yassir Arafat joined hands and hopes that a region too long at war might at last find peace. Admittedly Prime Minister Rabin is not exactly a Tom Cruise look-alike. And Mr. Arafat? He looks strangely like Mel Blanc with a dish towel on his head. There is no inherent physical loveliness in either of those ...
... three and the three surprises—Lennon and Madonna and Elvis as number 1]: # Person % Tally *Elvis Presley - 13.88 - 623966 Yitzhak Rabin - 13.29 - 597737 Adolf Hitler - 11.48 - 516155 Billy Graham - 10.46 - 470307 Albert Einstein - 9.85 - 443079 Martin Luther King ... of apartheid in South Africa, Nelson Mandela is elected President *1995 Federal Building in Oklahoma City bombed; Yitzak Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel, assassinated; HIV/AIDs epidemic estimated to infect 14 million people worldwide; In "The ...
... in an Age of Conflict (Darton, Longman and Todd, 2004), the author notes: "Muslim activists from Hamas cleanse themselves ritually before a suicidal attack, so as to meet God pure. The Jewish student who killed a negotiation-minded prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, spoke of orders from God, believing non-negotiable borders for Israel had been fixed by divine promise to Abraham. Christian priests have served with the Tamil Tigers and the IRA. Sikh bodyguards killed Indira Gandhi to avenge an assault she ...
... powers. All the text tells is that those who had enough faith to "sit down" received all they could possibly want from Jesus' hands. Children don't yet see generations of hatred and animosity. They see common needs, common desires, common hungers. Remember Yitzhak Rabin's funeral? What do you remember? The tears and testimony of his young grand-daughter spoke the most eloquently and passionately for the dream of peace for which her grandfather had just given his life. Her words breathed life back into that ...
