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  • STRAIGHT TALK: The Enduring Bond Between Wales and Zionism – and Its Bitter Unravelling

    STRAIGHT TALK: The Enduring Bond Between Wales and Zionism – and Its Bitter Unravelling

    The Enduring Bond Between Wales and Zionism – and Its Bitter Unravelling

    Sir Afilonius Rex in Tel Aviv. Monday 24th February 2026.

    In the misty valleys of Wales, where chapel bells once echoed with the thunder of Old Testament prophets, a profound affinity for Judaism and Zionism took root. This connection, woven from scripture, sympathy, and the shared fire of small nations, has long pulsed through Welsh history. It speaks in lyrical cadences, alliterative and incantatory, evoking green hills and golden psalms By that rolled like the sea in miners’ lungs. Here, the Bible burned brighter than coal seams; children learned of Jerusalem before their own rivers, with Jordan flowing through hymns and Zion a living heartbeat.

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  • STRAIGHT TALK: The Promised Banality of Evil – Revisited

    STRAIGHT TALK: The Promised Banality of Evil – Revisited

    Sir Afilonius Rex

    Tel Aviv, 16th February 2026

    The relations between Wales, Judaism, and Zionism weave a tale as old as the hills. It is as tangled as the roots beneath them. These are threads of scripture, sympathy, small nations’ stubborn fire, and biblical thunder from the valleys. This comes to us in the voices of the past; lyrical, rhythmic, overflowing with vivid, swirling imagery. Alliteration and a bardic, almost incantatory prose describe the green and golden hills of Wales. The chapels rang with the thunder of prophets. The psalms rolled like the sea in the lungs of the miners. There, the Old Testament burned brighter than the coal seams! On those Nonconformist mornings, the children learned about Jerusalem. They learned their names even before their own rivers. Jordan flowed through the hymns. Zion was no distant dream but a living pulse in the blood.

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