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Running from stone-throwers is a Jewish nightmare, a humiliating and depressing trauma of the Diaspora. The early Zionist writers often described the act of fleeing as undermining man's basic honor, as a catalyst for picking oneself up and returning to the land of our forefathers. Once there, Jews would no longer have to flee hooligans throwing stones; whoever dared try would be taking his life into his hands.
