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Friends don't leave friends

Friends don't leave friends

Friends don’t leave friends. Christmas Chanukah Week, thinking what friends are.

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Dec 23, 2024
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Friends don’t leave friends.

For me, it was never Ari Ben Canaan, the protagonist in the on-screen version of Leon Uris’ Exodus:

Paul Newman, Exodus (1960)

It was always Jacob and Benny, driving off together, near El Al, in the southern Golan Heights (below); and, you can borrow a copy of it in Crying for Imma (Battling for the Soul on the Golan Heights) b…

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