MORNING invites the calls of doves, symbols of Shalom, but peace is an illusion. Gaza burns. Rescuers carry the pieces of babies clawed from the mountains of rubble where their parents lie, to the remains of the hospitals, but there is no one to put them back together again. The newsreader warns, “This report contains images that may distress viewers.” In America the commonest morning doves are Mourning Doves. The world is distressed. Shalom is burning.

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