From the Ground: The Real Israel-Palestine

The Irony Of The Bah’ai Temple

Walking around the breathtakingly beautiful Bah’ai gardens this morning (pictures coming), I stumbled upon a tour group and paused to listen to the guide.

“The Bah’ais have a simple ideology,” the guide was telling the group. “They think the whole world should be one country. No passports, nothing. And they think that everybody should speak the same language.”

It wasn’t until later that it hit me: How ironic that this religion of unity is centered here, in a country that has been torn apart by conflict since its inception.