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The nation of Israel is constantly in the news, a small nation whose very existence attracts a disproportionate interest from the rest of the world. Israel is also a modern creation, whose groundwork was laid in the late 19th century, and whose birth came as a promised land of safety and return after the horrors of WWII. Return from what? From the Diaspora of Jews after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD. From Roman Palestine, over the next 1900 years, the Jews spread throughout much of the world. And with the creation of Israel, many did return. But many communities of the Jewish Diaspora either remain where they planted themselves centuries (or even millennia) ago, or have continued to spread into different, and sometimes unlikely places around the world.
Those who follow my writing on Ricochet (support groups are standing by now at 1-900-God-Help-Me…) know that I am fascinated by the tribal nature of humans, and how we freely choose to organize ourselves into groups. In times of peace, countries break down into smaller and smaller factions, so they can do whatever they want. But in times of war, even countries that hate each other will form massive coalitions to defend themselves from an outside threat. They may have argued about things before. But in times of war, these previously antagonistic groups suddenly care about one another. They say that the enemy of your enemy is your friend. So one could argue that enemies create friends. Or rather, predators create compassion.
Hunter Biden led a fairly normal life, for a long time. He was married to his lifelong sweetheart for nearly 25 years. They had three kids, whom they loved very much. But then his Dad became the second most powerful man in the world, and Hunter was offered an enormous amount of money for doing not much of anything, by people he’d never met. Soon, he was sleeping with the widow of his recently deceased brother, he got an Arkansas stripper pregnant, married a South African Instagram model a couple weeks after meeting her.
