Israel–the land of the Bible. Here almost 2000 years ago, a Jewish rabbi taught his followers that if they didn’t forgive one another, neither would God forgive them. The teacher was Jesus of Nazareth. The setting: a region marked for thousands of years by ethnic strife, religious conflict, and endless cycles of revenge. In modern Israel, Jewish and Arab populations both lay claim to the family line and inheritance of Abraham. And both believe that they have been unjustly wronged by the other. Here in a culture that demanded “an eye for an eye” Jesus taught his followers to love and forgive one another. But is such teaching realistic in a world where the roots of conflict go so deep and where the harm done to one another is so painful and real?