One Friday evening, a young woman sat her toddler on her lap at Christ the King Evangelical Episcopal Church in Ma’alot-Tarshiha, a mixed Arab-Jewish town in northern Israel five miles from the border with Lebanon. Like mothers everywhere, she clapped her hands and beckoned a response. What does the cow say? "Moo," the child replied. What does the dog say? "Woof," came the answer. What does the bomb say? "Boom," and they both laughed. Only a few hours earlier, ... |