Baltics Have Chosen The Wrong Master, Again

The independent kingdoms of Israel and Judea could only be independent when the little strip of land between the Jordan River and the Eastern Mediterranean that we now know as the Holy Land was, in geopolitical terms, a demilitarized zone of demarcation between the great empires of the day. From the tenth to the fifth centuries BC, it was the northern empires of Babylon and Assyria that were staring down Egypt, now perilously close to the end of its glory days, across Galilean hilltops and Judean desert canyons. To this day, it was this long standoff between these twin pillars of the ancient Fertile Crescent that allowed Israel its longest period of independence and hence the creation of its own and much of the modern world's cultural heritage.