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Jebusites and the mystery of memory loss

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Submitted by ANN FARMER (United Kingdom), Aug 4, 2016 at 17:19

As I note in my book Chesterton and the Jews, G. K. Chesterton had a complicated relationship with the Jewish people, but privileged the mystical claim to the Holy Land of even "unheroic" Jews over the "sophistry" of "some Anti-Semites" who said that "the Jews" had "no more right there than the Jebusites", for if any "heroic" Jebusites existed, they were Jebusites "without knowing it"—they did not "remember." (G. K. Chesterton, The New Jerusalem, 1920).

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