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As with everything in Israel, mourning here is ultranationalistic. Not the private mourning, of course, but the collective mourning is always predatory, aggressive, an order that is binding upon all, terrifyingly uniform and prolonged endlessly. A memorial rally shall be broadcast on every TV station – woe to the one that breaks rank.

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