After a hiatus of three or four decades, I recently found myself humming the tune of the 1965 blockbuster protest song, Eve of Destruction. Though the famous lyrics deal with baby-boomer American memories, including the war in Vietnam and the fight for civil rights, they suddenly sounded very 2012-current to me. “The Eastern world, it is explodin’” seems like a pretty solid prognosis of the shape of...
by
Chemi Shalev
Seriously? You don’t believe we’re on the Eve of Destruction?
Between the Four Horsemen and the Whore of Babylon, developments in the Middle East are fuelling speculation about an impending Doomsday and an Apocalypse soon. Rightly so.
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