Jewish fanatics are no different from other land-centred religious fanatics. The argument is simple: “God gave us this land, it is Holy Land; it is ours and only ours”. Pictured here is Masada, the site of the mass suicide of Jewish Sicarii rebels in approximately 74 CE, and it's just one example of religious fanaticism in the extreme.

Nothing illustrates the environmental challenge facing the Holy Land better than the decline of the Sea of Galilee, also known as Lake Kinneret, to its lowest levels for 100 years.

Although Muslims now pray towards Mecca, they once faced Jerusalem.

Christians are a minority in the Holy Land and a minority within the Arab minority. Purely on the psychological level, the Church is under pressure.

In 67 words, the Foreign Secretary publicly declared the support of the British government for the Jewish claim to a ‘national home’ in Palestine in 1917. What happened next?

Come on a journey from biblical times to the modern day...

It may seem obvious to begin an A-Z of the Holy Land with ‘A’ for Arab but the term is more confusing than it may seem at first glance. Dr Ed Kessler introduces us to this subject in this first episode.