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Children of Abraham and the Battle for Hebron

Children of Abraham and the Battle for Hebron

Hebron is a fault line of faiths and a front line in the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, where tensions between Israelis and Palestinians are usually followed by calamity.

Sep 07, 2016
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Children of Abraham and the Battle for Hebron
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by Paul Hemphill

You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children, you must not do it anymore.

A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god.

You who stand above them now, your hatchets blunt and bloody – you were not there before,

When I lay upon a mountain and my father’s hand was trembling with the beauty of the w…

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