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  • “We Israelis resemble our Arab enemies in more ways than we care to know,” writes Avner Falk, an Israeli psychologist, in a book titled Fratricide in the Holy Land.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • “We Israelis resemble our Arab enemies in more ways than we care to know,” writes Avner Falk, an Israeli psychologist, in a book titled Fratricide in the Holy Land.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Ramón Berenger II, called the Fratricide, because he was believed to have put his brother to death, was vanquished in an ordeal by combat, and journeyed to the Holy Land in penance for his crime.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • Fratricide informs the founding texts of Western culture.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Fratricide does not arise from a lack of understanding.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Fratricide is uncommon among U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and nonfatal friendly fire incidents are usually punished with reprimands or other minor penalties.

    Tank Chief Is Charged in Death Of Marine Michael M. Phillips 2012

  • Kass, “Farmers, Founders, and Fratricide: The Story of Cain and Abel,” First Things 62 April 1996: 19–26.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Fratricide defined both crimes, but they differed in that one murder represented a split between the City of God and the city of men, and the other represented a fissure within the city of men.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • An account of early Christian anti-Judaism bears the title Faith and Fratricide.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Fratricide and enemy brothers appear in writings of the ancient Greeks as well.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

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