History

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A principle of the Kingdom of God is that we reap what we sow. This is the reality of history. Amid much of the chaos, today lies the fragile and weak seeds that nations and leaders sowed in the past. At the End of History, we enjoy discovering the roots of those tangled webs of self-destruction by taking a deep look at the history behind today’s disorder.

Isaac and Ishmael: Origins of the Middle East Conflict, or a Religious Myth?

Reading Time: < 1 minute For the last 80 years, a popular teaching has emerged that states the conflict between Israel and the Arabs is Biblical in origin. According to this teaching, the story of Isaac and Ishmael is the seed of a perpetual conflict that has always and will always exist between Israel and the Arabs. You can find…

January 21, 2024
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1948 – Six Years That Made the Middle East

Reading Time: 2 minutes Episode 2 in our series Six Years That Made the Middle East, looks at 1948. This was the year that Israel became a state, but there is a wider story to be told when it comes to the Middle East. The rise, fall, and persistence of colonialism, or at least the perception of colonialism in the Middle…

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How America’s Best and Brightest Set the Stage for Vladimir Putin’s Rise

Reading Time: 8 minutes This weekend President Biden “forcefully” called for regime change in Russia. Speaking of Vladimir Putin, the US President said, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.” In prior years I have written articles and published podcast episodes concerning America’s short memory and one-sided perspective when it comes to Russia. In 2016  when it…

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The Dark History of the Nobel Prize (They Prefer You Forget)

Reading Time: 7 minutes Last week the Nobel Prize Committee began announcing its 2021 recipients. The highly esteemed Nobel Prize is named after Alfred Nobel, a 19th-century Swedish chemist, and inventor who developed the invention of dynamite. According to legend, Nobel read a premature publication of his own obituary, which described his life as a weapons developer. Discouraged by…

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The Death of AQ Khan – REPOST –

Reading Time: < 1 minute Yesterday Abdul Qadeer Khan (AQ Khan) died in Pakistan after being hospitalized for COVID19. Khan is the man responsible for facilitating turning Pakistan into a nuclear power and just as significant, providing countries like North Korea, Libya, and Iran with the science and technology they needed for their own nuclear programs. Most believe North Korea…

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Never Again…Again – Bonus Episode – Recommended Books on the History of Genocide

Reading Time: < 1 minute This bonus episode in our series Never Again…Again – The Ongoing History of Genocide discusses some of our top recommended books on the history of genocide for those who want to dive deeper into the topics covered in the podcast series. Links to the books discussed in this episode can be found below. All of…

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The Rwanda Genocide – 1994

Reading Time: 6 minutes The 1994 genocide in Rwanda is a stain on world history and international relations. At a time when the western world celebrated the collapse of communism and looked forward to the dawn of a new age of prosperity and international cooperation, Hutu Rwandans slaughtered nearly 1 million of their fellow countrymen. Civilians primarily carried out…

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The Silent Genocide – Guatemala’s Genocide of the Mayans

Reading Time: 6 minutes The Silent Genocide is the name given to the Guatemalan genocide of an estimated 200,000 Mayan people in Guatemala. In addition to the 200,000 deaths, another 200,000 became refugees when they fled Guatemala for Mexico to escape the violence. Another million Mayan people became internally displaced. Like many of history’s genocides that we have looked…

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1971 Bangladesh Genocide – The Birth of a Nation

Reading Time: 6 minutes This post tells the story of the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide. Our readers at the End of History are among the smartest in the world, and given the opportunity, I bet they could find Pakistan and India on a world map. But only the most astute followers of history and current events know that prior to…

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The Only Plane in the Sky

Reading Time: 2 minutes The United States will mark the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on Saturday. Most of us simply call it 9/11, and everyone knows what we are talking about when we say 9/11. In prior podcast episodes, I described defining generational moments as a historical event where everyone alive at that time…

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