Ben Shapiro unironically called it ‘a religious event’.  I don’t know what to call it exactly: on paper it was the formalisation or celebration of a peace deal. It often seemed like something else though.   Israeli hasbara superstar Shapiro was there though, in the Knesset – so I’ll take his word for it. When he calls it a ‘religious event’, bear in mind he is doing so approvingly.   I’ll come to all the apparent Biblical enactment at the end of this piece: because Monday’s event was full of it.   I initially wasn’t going to cover any of this, … Continue reading This Was all Weird, Right…?