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Israel and the Palestinians may be moving toward a major conflict. The initial clashes there have escalated. We are now talking about Hamas firing rockets into Israel, Israel firing back.

Air raids, the possibility of an Israeli invasion of Gaza. This has become a troubling situation.

Now the question is why should we care? I say this because at the first glance it would appear that America's dependency on the Middle East has become much less.

Our strategic interests are less involved. Why? Because ever since World War II America's dependency on the Middle East was largely connected to oil.

But with America becoming virtually self-sufficient in oil, with oil discoveries elsewhere in the world, America is no longer dependent at all.

A lot of people might say, well, gee, time to dust off and get out of there and let them fight. They've been fighting for a long time over there.

This is a little bit like the tribal warfare, the Hutus and the Tutsis. This has been the Indians and the Pakistanis, the Israelis and the Palestinians. There may be no solution.

So why don't we just kind of look the other way? Well, there's actually a deeper reason not to look the other way. For one, at least for those of us who are Christians, there is a deep Christian stake in the Middle East, in Israel, in Jerusalem.

Why? Because that is the holiest site in Christianity. It's by the way not the holiest site in Islam.

People sometimes say, well, it's a holy site for the Jews and the Christians and the Muslims. Well, it is but not in an equivalent sense.

The holiest site for Islam is Mecca. And there is, in fact, an Islamic mosque, an important mosque in Jerusalem.

And there is the Christian church and there is the Jewish temple. Now, the beauty of all that being under the autonomy of Israel is that the Muslim worshipers can go to the mosque.

And the Jewish worshipers can go to the temple and the Christians can go to the church. And religious freedom allows that.

Now, does anyone for one moment think that if the radical Muslims took over the region, imagine, for example, Hamas running that region? What would they do?

Well, they would do what Muhammad, the conqueror, did in 1453, when the Muslims conquered Constantinople, Constantinople at that time was the capital of Eastern Christianity.

There was the Hagia Sophia, the traditional cathedral. Muhammad, the conqueror, wrote his horse into the cathedral. And he basically said, from now on, this cathedral will be a mosque.

And so the cathedral in a sense was, quote, taken down, taken down in a sense, renovated to become a mosque.

So there's no doubt that the radical Muslims do not believe in religious freedom. And today's radical Muslims are even more fanatical than some of the Muslim regimes of the past, which actually allowed Jews and Christians to live.

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