Dying at the edge of memory--what happened there, on that land that was home to these and became a promise to others? That land, before it became an issue and a conflict, was like all lands, embracing all sects and religions. Then came promises, conspiracies were hatched, and alliances were drawn between foreign powers, a faltering empire, and desperate minorities. , , On that Palestinian land, and in the city of Hebron in particular, there was a Jew who was fighting Turkification just as he was fighting the promises of adults to his people to usurp a homeland to which he belonged by blood before religion, and a woman who challenged the enmity of her new surroundings towards the Jews, so she breastfed a child who had lost a Jewish mother who was a neighbor like all neighbours, and a teacher in a Russian mission who saved Two Palestinian girls, one of whom embraced the other with two hands, made us feel tired of working for the pashas.
