In Gaza in 1956, Israeli soldiers forced hundreds of Palestinian men into a school yard (see image) where they had to kneel for hours with their hands on their heads and soldiers sometimes firing above them. In the afternoon, an officer, not Israeli, maybe British, arrived, stopped the firing and told them to raise their heads.
A dove came and stood on his shoulder. Three doves flew up and down near the men.
People hallucinate under pressure. We remember Biblical visions and the significance of doves and of the number three. I always thought that, at Jesus' baptism, the Spirit descended as gently as a dove, not in the form of a dove, but who knows?
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