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In recent days, the Middle East has been all over the news and on my mind.

Now I'm terribly uninformed and thoroughly unqualified to speak on such matters, but I spent the evening with a good friend from Haifa, Israel and it really put things in perspective. Having lived my whole life in the U.S. I can't even begin to understand what it means to have to comprehend such violence.

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