"Some cities may have tragic destinies, but none can compare to Jerusalem, forty times besieged, set on fire and ruined, twice razed to the ground Forever rising from its ashes, the city has tirelessly braved everything that history, geography and politics have cared to throw at it. A single explanation seems plausible: it has simply always been known as the City of God, and as such is the only place where the absurd becomes reasonable, the irrational becomes logical, and the myth becomes truer, and brighter than truth itself. "It is said that in Jerusalem, the wise go mad, and the mad go madder still."” Jean Lartéguy, To Die For Jerusalem