In any case, as a Jew, I have no problem with the notion of life not appearing in a flash as it is exists today but over time, in stages of evolution, because that is exactly what the story of the first ten verses of the Bible is: a story of the evolution of existence starting with light beams and celestial bodies, the simplest of compounds, H2O water, and marine life, terrestrial, stationary vegetation progressing to mobile creatures on land and in the air, finally culminating with the creation of the most complex and complicated and freest creatures, man. The Torah is the story of the evolution of life from its simplest forms to its most complex.

There is also in the holy writings of our mystics who, long before Darwin, believed that before HaShem created man, He created 972 varieties of hominids, man-like creatures, yet without a soul.

So I have no problem with evolution as a concept. I do have a problem with post-Jewish ignoramuses who think ultimate wisdom is to be found not only among the goyim but goyim whose universe has no place for HaShem…

Nablus is the same name as Naples, the English corruption of the Italian Napoli (you can even hear the “b” there) which is the Italian corruption of the Greek Neapolis. Although the Romans built this New City, they didn’t give it a Latin but a Greek name probably for the same reason English Quakers named their principle colonial city Philadelphia, to give it some class. The Romans looked up to the Greeks…

The details of his biography and the operations he was involved in are at the heart of this piece – a book he has written is now being published – but for our purposes, I recommend checking out this article and in particular its last few paragraphs, its last few columns, starting with the question, “Aren’t you afraid now after exposing all this?”

He of course admits to his fear but is proud of having served not Israel but his G-d and thereby saved so many lives on both sides.

And then he hits the nail on the head about terrorism. Of course, he says, it must be fought, but terrorism per se is not the problem. And neither, he says, is the occupation, as he still calls it. “The root of the problem does not lie in security or politics. It is a war between two gods, two religions. Between the God of the Torah and the God of the Koran…There will be no peace in the Middle East. Israel’s problem is not with Hamas or with any other organization, nor with the interpretation Hamas reads into the Koran. It is with the God of the Koran. After all, even a moderate Muslim who reads the Koran must read that the Jews are sons of apes and that the infidels must be killed. The Palestinians must stop blaming Israel, or the West, for all their problems. If they want true freedom, they must free themselves from their God.”