Palestine: Jesus' Broken Heart
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Today is Good Friday, the day on which Christians commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus. Also today, Deir Yassin, the site of probably the most important event in modern Palestinian history, stands unnamed and unmarked and in clear sight of the most famous Holocaust memorial in the world.
We are now also at the start of the Jewish Passover commemorating the Exodus from Egypt, which Jews often refer to as zeman cherutenu: "The Season of our Freedom". It is the word cherutenu, particularly the suffix enu"our", which calls for examination, Because, if for Jews, Pesach is the season of their freedom, celebrating their liberation from slavery and the beginning of their self-consciousness as a people, what about others' freedom, celebrating others' liberation from bondage and others...