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and blue, the Arabs were like bright birds that had flown in from the desert, seeking the valleys of Palestine. the deserts east of the River Jordan, clouds super- heated from their thirsty march across waterless sands; and as But even as he prayed, men from Gunter's army chased three Turks into the mosque, cut them open and threw their entrails over the carvings sacred to their god Mahmoud. r allegiance to a Jewish state had flagged, for she knew Israel to be the only tenable solution in a world where other sovere

of Roman feet. name, and from which it maintained an open warfare, featuring soldiers and assassinations, against its competitors. nd existing between the two men, and it was to this fundamental topic that he addressed himself in the final pages On a stormy morning in late February, 1291, the man on the watch-tower announced, not loudly nor with excitement, They are coming.