"Joel Rosenberg - Last Jihad 03 - The Ezekiel Option" - читать интересную книгу автора (Rosenberg Joel C)

The journey that follows is fiction.
The prophecy upon which it is based is true.
The cryptic vision of a Hebrew scribeтАФwriting twenty-five centuries agoтАФforetold
one of the most horrific periods in the future of mankind.
Yet even today it remains one of man's great unsolved mysteries.
Its central premise was once discussed in a speech before the U.S. Congress, and was
believed to be both true and increasingly close at hand by one of America's greatest
presidents.
Its central characters surface throughout history, in the Tanakh and the book of
Revelation, in the journals of Marco Polo and the writings of Voltaire, in the Dead Sea
Scrolls and the histories of Josephus, in the works of Russian authors like Nikolai
Vasilevich Gogol, and in the writings of Nobel Prize winners like Elie Wiesel and Isaac
Bashevis Singer.
How soon will this prophecy come to pass? Some believe that even now there are
signs that the board is being set, that the great game is about to begin. Some believe that
among those signs are the fall of Saddam Hussein and the death of Yasser Arafat.
Winston Churchill once called Russia "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an
enigma."
It is unlikely that he understood the full magnitude of what he was saying. But it is
here that our story begins.
JOEL C. ROSENBERG
Moscow, Russia
September 2004




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 The most important failure was one of imagination.
We do not believe leaders understood the gravity of the threat.


THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT:
Final Report of the National Commission
on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States




Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
W.B. YEATS
The Second Coming