Excerpt from YONAH by Neel Woods Chapter 34 Oppressed Nineveh was a city unlike anything I’d ever observed in Israel. From the near side of the Tigris River, I saw it was encircled by a wall that looked to be 100 feet high and half again as thick. Embedded within the massive wall were hundreds upon hundreds of guard towers twice as high as the wall itself. A dozen Jerusalems would not have matched the size of this metropolis. The adjacent Tigris River was a wonder in itself at nearly a quarter-mile’s breadth from bank to bank. Israel’s Jordan River, at its widest point, spanned just 100 feet—not even a tenth of the mighty Tigris. A multilane bridge connected the east and west bank providing thoroughfare for foot traffic as well as chariots and wagons.  With every step across the bridge, I sensed the growing presence of evil, which was personified in the hateful stares I received from those I passed. I didn’t know which was more offensive to them—my foreign appearance or my ...