As a fundamentalist taught to believe that the destruction of Palestine would hasten the 'end times', Linda Ramsden was in for a shock when she met her first real Palestinian.

One evening in October 2001, I made a phone call from my home in Surrey to my Palestinian Christian friend, Grace, in Beit Jala, a suburb of Bethlehem. The entire conversation was surreal. While I sat in the peace and quiet of my office, Grace, speaking from ...