Will iconic images recorded in the grooves of an ancient vase unite the Holy Land or rip it further apart?

THE VASE

A novel by Mark M. DeRobertis

Muhsin Muhabi is a Palestinian potter, descended from a long line of potters. His business is run from the same shop owned by his ancestors since the day his forebears moved to Nazareth. The region's conflict saw the death of his oldest son, and rogue terrorists are in the process of recruiting his youngest in their plot to assassinate the Pope and Israeli prime minister.

Professor Hiram Weiss is an art historian at Nazareth’s Bethel University. He is also a Shin Bet operative on special assignment. With the help of fellow agent, Captain Benny Mathias, he plans to destroy the gang responsible for the death of his wife and only child. He puts a bomb in the ancient vase he takes on loan from Muhsin’s Pottery Shop.

Mary Levin, the charming assistant to the director of Shin Bet, has lost a husband and most of her extended family to recurring wars and never-ending terrorism. She dedicates her life to the preservation of Israel, but to whom will she dedicate her heart? The brilliant professor from Bethel University? Or the gallant captain who now leads Kidon?

Harvey Holmes, the Sherlock of Haunted Houses, is a Hollywood TV host whose reality show just flopped. When a Lebanese restaurant owner requests his ghost-hunting services, he believes the opportunity will resurrect his career. All he has to do is exorcise the ghosts that are haunting the restaurant. It happens to be located right across the street from Muhsin’s Pottery Shop.




Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Stand for the National Anthem

Protest this or protest that. Or move to anther county. How about that? That's the great thing about this country. It's a free country. You can do what you want. You can protest. You can move. You can even sit during the nation anthem. But if you do, you will draw the ire of your fellow Americans. And that ire will be justified.

Because no other country is as great as this one. Don't agree? Then find another country and MOVE there. Go ahead. Move to another country if you can find a better one. Of course no country is perfect. No one said America is perfect. There is no place where every person in every profession is perfect. That's what these idiot professional football players don't seem to understand. And all the people who follow their lead don't seem understand. Like the players in other sports, and now college players and high school players, and students who aren't even athletes.

That's right. Kids are sitting during the pledge of allegiance in the classrooms now. It's out of control. And all started by some idiot football player, influenced, I understand, by his America-hating girlfriend. He used a lie, which was Ferguson, and then protested. Sure there were other incidents that weren't lies, incidents that were cases of bad cops, but this idiot cited Ferguson. The "hands up, don't shoot" lie. And used that as his protest. It was a lie.

But here's my point. All professions have bad cases involved. There's going to be bad cops. There's bad doctors, too. Is there going to be a protest about bad doctors? There's bad professors, too. There's bad researchers, bad politicians, bad mayors, bad governors, bad manufacturers, and bad janitors. But MOST of the above are good. I'd say the overwhelming majority of the above are excellent. And that includes cops.

So these idiot protesters don't take that into consideration. To hell with the football players. To hell with the basketball players. They never did anything for me. We need cops a lot more than we need football players and basketball players. Cops save lives. I don't know of any lives saved by a basketball player. Or a football player. They can all go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

God bless America. And God Bless the American Flag. Stand for the National Anthem. Or move to another country. Stand and be proud during the nation anthem. Or sit and be an idiot.

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