At the height of the protests of Israel's actions in Gaza, I noticed an interesting sight on the streets of New York. There seemed to be what looked like Orthodox Jews holding signs against the nation of Israel in the midst of other protesters who were holding Palestinian flags. I decided to look into this, and here is what I discovered.

Yes, believe it or not, there is a very small group (possibly numbering in the low thousands) of Orthodox Jews known as Neturei Karta (Aramaic term meaning "Guardians of the City") who oppose the creation of the modern state of Israel. The basis for their opposition to the nation of Israel is their belief that the Jewish exile must continue until the Messiah comes to return the exiles to their land.

The term iatrogenesis comes from the Greek and literally means "originating with the healer." It refers to anytime a healer (doctor or psychiatrist) ends up harming a patient during treatment. You probably have heard of a person going in for an operation to remove something like a spleen, and the doctor made a mistake and took out a kidney.

This same type of thing can happen when we are dealing with psychological or mental issues too. There is no doubt that talk therapy can help some people, and sometimes even medication can help with serious mental issues, but mistakes can also be made.

In mid-June, the Israeli air force launched strikes against military and nuclear targets in Iran. This was followed by missile strikes by Iran into Israel. The Israelis are justifying their attack due to the existential threat they perceive from Iran. Israel claims that if Iran were to obtain nuclear capability, Israel would be in jeopardy of a nuclear strike from Iran. But like anything we hear from government officials, we might wonder if this is entirely true.

If Iran were to launch a nuclear weapon at Israel, we know Israel could also do the same to Iran. Israel is known to have a secret nuclear weapons program themselves. They also have never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Iran is a signatory to the NPT. Some estimates put Israel's nuclear weapons at 90. Yet they have never publicly acknowledged having the weapons.

In the beginning of the Church, back some 2,000 years ago, there was an awful lot of controversy surrounding this "Alien visitor" from another dimension of time and space. He was quite the disrupter of the status quo and caused a lot of questions with regard as to who this "Jesus" really was. Some even thought He was a prophet reincarnated from the dead to redress the times in which they lived.

Out of this visitation, many controversies and debates emerged, causing an enormous amount of "flurry" about His claims to be the Son of God. This spawned numerous heresies about His nature and just how could He be God's Son and human at the same time.