Tall carved columns, shored up and fastened with iron bars, shimmer white in the sun.
"This is the synagogue being built at Capernaum in the second century," Sol says. "The three religions from this country believe in paradise, and they have the common symbols that can be carved much the same. The Jews have the conch shell, the Christians the tail of the peacock,
and the Arabs use the five fingers."
I look at him. "With all of that in common, why is it so hard for everyone to get together?"
"You Americans," he says with disgust.
