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Chapter 34: Why Wilt Thou Rent Thyself Apart, Jerusalem

Jan 27, 202026 minSeason 2Ep. 56
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"He said, Go and utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not defiled with women; for they are not very good for implementing high-performance floating-point calculations or calculations that intensively manipulate bit vectors.

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October 31, 1991 Madrid

It was the second day of the Madrid Conference on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. In the interests of fitting in the conference room, Uriel had shrunk to a mere ten feet tall."

This is a serialized story narrated by Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, Scott Alexander. The original text is here:

http://unsongbook.com/chapter-34-why-wilt-thou-rend-thyself-apart-jerusalem/

Episode 56

Duration: 26:27

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