My dad, may he rest in peace, was a fervent Jewish nationalist and Zionist. He was also an atheist and as far as I know, the only time he set foot in a synagogue was during my Bar Mitzvah service, wherein he shyly and uncomfortably recited in front of the entire congregation “baruch sheptarani meonsho shel ze”, Blessed is He, who rid me of this nuisance, the “nuisance”, of course, being your humble servant, who was supposed to, upon reaching the ripe age of thirteen, leave home and stop bugging his parents for sustenance.
Prime Minister of Netanyahu, in the wake of the unspeakable tragedy that took place last week at the Tree of Life synagogue in the heavily Jewish Squirrel Hill Pittsburgh neighborhood, declared that the people who were killed there were slaughtered because they were Jews and for no other reason. The Nazi killer wholeheartedly agrees. So there we have it, folks, the representative of the victims and the perpetrator of the crime agree on the motive. Case closed.
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