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25 February 2019 is
doubtless some damn day or another, but I don’t have anything for it on my
calendar. It’s the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Hebron massacre, at any
rate, when an Israeli physician—possibly inspired by the story of Esther
commemorated at Purim—opened fire on Muslims worshipping at the Cave of the
Patriarchs, killing twenty-nine of them and injuring over a hundred more before
being beaten to death. Whether the mass-murderer was acting as a patriot, a
terrorist, or a lunatic is a matter of interpretation. It doesn’t matter much
to the dead, I suppose. Some of them were mere kids of twelve or thirteen.
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