Step into Babylon around 570 BC, an engineered capital of walls, canals, the Ishtar Gate, the Processional Way, and the mysterious ziggurat often linked to the Tower of Babel.
Nineveh grew from ancient Mesopotamian sacred ground into Assyria’s powerhouse, only to be erased within three months in 612 BC. Discover its walls, libraries, and the empire’s brutal tactics of conquest.
Around 1177 BC, the Near East unraveled with supply-chain failure, famine, migrations, invasions, and political weakness.
With ‘suicidal empathy,’ violence and hatred become routine because a society trains itself to stop naming the ideologies that produce them. When outrage is silenced by moral labels, civilized repair mechanismsโhonest diagnosis, debate, and correctionโatrophy. That is the core argument: good intentions, untethered from clear thinking, can turn into moral blindfolds. The consequence is not just policy missteps. It is civilizational decline.
The biblical Amalek command in 1 Samuel 15 feels morally troubling. Jewish tradition reads it through the Torahโs earlier context, without turning it into a license for violence or racism.
Amalekites are one of the Bibleโs most memorable enemies. They are pure evil, appearing in every generation. They appear in the wilderness stories, in the rise of Saul and David, and later in the book of Esther.
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