My Jewish friend – and I have many good ones – was packing his bags, getting ready to leave Israel. "You're breaking my heart," I texted him just before his departure. He replied with a cry that seemed to echo, even though it was only written: "I'm desperate. Enough, I'm sick of all these crazy people."

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