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Two Ottoman officers from Palestine, World War I.
One of them is a Zionist Ashkenazi Jew
One of them is an Arab Muslim.
Which is which?
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Same people, a few decades later. Same positions left/right.

On the left: David HaCohen (born Belarus 1898, immigrated to Palestine 1907).
On the right, Hajj Amin al-Husayni (born Jerusalem 1895)
What is my point here? In some moments, differences between people seem obvious, natural, insurmountable. In other moments, no so much. Let's keep those other moments in mind, to remember change is possible, and nothing is ever to be taken for granted.
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