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God hardened their hearts

1 November 2014

9:00 AM

1 November 2014

9:00 AM

In November 1992 I accompanied the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Donald Robinson, to the capitals of the Middle East. He was representing the then Australian Council of Churches in a post-Iraq War ‘people-to-people’ diplomatic initiative. I was his political adviser.

In Israel, our government-provided escort got into a discussion with the Archbishop about modern Israeli history.

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