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Tuesday, 25 July 2017

No other Choice

No other Choice

Why must we fight,
 Like dogs over a bone
Others who look on 
Seek to make us atone
For acts of horror we heap 
On each other’s heads
We are left to count 
The Wounded, the maimed 
   Injured and the dead.

After 5000 years you come to light 
With the idea that you do not want Israel 
            In your sight
Nowhere in the Middle East 
You would prefer us in the Med'
  The Red or Dead Sea-
      Ten leagues under.

A little late in historic terms
Time enough for you to learn
That many nations sought
  Our total destruction
But none succeeded 
In this, select purpose.

All those who hated us 
Have been consigned to 
The rubbish heap of history
Had they chosen to build 
Rather than destroy, their Gods
Would have showered them 
With life, and loves rewards.

Even Hitler who boasted his Reich 
Would last a thousand years
Hardly existed twelve, before 
A disgusted world 
Wreaked vengeance for the misery 
Blood and tears, he augmented.

Time and the world will allow
Us no other alternative to this
Combines our people’s wisdom 
And knowledge, to create two States
Living side by side.

We would become the envy of nations
Hopefully attain the happiness
All people deserve and seek. 
We have tried everything else
Over many decades, and now know
We have no other choice.

By Hillie Feldman   8th July 2003  Kibbutz Yizreel


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