Envisioning Peace – Signs of the Dove

This week in a border region of Israel and Jordan, Gen. Tommy Franks and Jack Kemp, joined American business leaders in breaking ground on a joint Jordanian and Israeli center called “Bridging the Rift.” Scientists from each country, Muslim and Jewish, Arab and Israeli, will work together, sharing common principles of creativity, freedom, democracy, capitalism and free-trade. The road to peace in the Middle East, whether through Damascus or Jerusalem, comes when their mutually great histories of intellectual renaissance are revisited with joint investments and new beginnings. This column originally appeared at this link at the Arizona Republic.