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“Death is everywhere. Even metaphor is a casualty of war.”

We die a lot. We die in fleeting headlines, in between breaths. Our death is so quotidian that journalists report it as though they’re reporting the weather: Cloudy skies, light showers, and 3,000 Palestinians dead in the past ten days. And much like the weather, only God is responsible—not armed settlers, not targeted drone strikes.