I learned about it...in Catholic school!

The real Inquisition is where torture techniques were refined that we even use today, water boarding being one of the more infamous ones.

Well Brooks' re-telling of the French Revolution is *still* verified as 100% factually accurate, right??

covered, but this Catholic school girl (fifty years ago) was quite bored about it so I don't remember details. I do remember the Inquisition because I have Spanish ancestry and it caught my attention. A man who studied for the priesthood, especially a Jesuit, would be scholarly about Church history. That's my point.

Totally inept statesmen. His childish games have always taken precedence over adult diplomacy.

Bryant

Anti-Semitism is much older than the Inquisition and is based on religion, not race.

It is a very commonly a "race" thing for many people, including the greatest crime against the jewish people in history.

the perception of race by uneducated people. Second, what distinguished Jewish people from others if their religious tradition, one which does not exactly encourage marriage to outsiders.

I was afraid I would have to do this myself, but DU never fails!

and cunning than W.

I despise Netanyahu, but the lack of balance of posters on this site is also annoying.
Both sides do sucky things.

The sucky things the Palestinians do are analogous to kids kicking the front seats of the car because their parents (the ones with all the money and the drivers' licenses) are taking them to Auntie Em's in Kansas instead of to Disneyland. That's dangerous because it's distracting, but other than bawling and yelling and making their parents wish they had chosen Disneyland, what other options do powerless kids have?

Palestinians have no army, navy or air force. They have been stripped of land and water rights, and are utterly powerless to reverse that situation. If you've had everything that makes life mean something taken from you by an imperial power, suicide bombing and high school science project tin can rockets are about the only options you have.

Israel, with massive military power, practices the imperial terrorism of war. The Palestinians are utterly powerless in any way that matters--they can't get their land or water rights back, and they can't stop military attacks on their communities. Suicide bombing is the terrorism of the weak, and it's hardly a surprise that people will do it if you strip them of everything that means something to them.

Hopefully, Kerry's attempt at peace talks will work.

their families had lived their for hundreds of years. I met many in France back in 1965. I also met some in Los Angeles maybe 15 years ago.

Stay classy, Bibi

What'llidooo?

maybe the Pope will read it.