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Jerusalem was burning
History repeats itself, we’re told. Or it doesn’t quite repeat, but it rhymes. Or time is a flat circle — did you know that? Or that if we don’t learn history, we’re doomed to repeat it. Well, yes, that’s right. We’re presented with the basic idea — that …