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Understand that you are Ilan Halevi as much as you are
Meir Kahane.

Understand that you are Yitzhak Rabin as much as you
are Yigal Amir.

Understand that you are most of the 100,000 people
who heard his last song as much as you are most of the
people who celebrated his slaughter.

Understand that you are the people forcibly removed
from your homes across the Middle East and North
Africa, and that you are the people who placed them in
ma’abarot.

Understand that you are Abba Mahari, and that you are
his children who walked to Jerusalem to escape their
Derg oppressors a hundred years later.

Understand that you are most of the occupying soldiers
as much as you are most of his neighbours who are the
members of movements seeking a nonviolent, peaceful
future, filled with dialogue instead of walls.

Understand that you are the Jews of Kaifeng, who
continue to be silenced as their government seeks to
turn their living culture into a taxidermied museum relic.

Understand that you are Salomon Taka as much as you
are the police officer who killed him.