Hear, 0 Israel!

Michael Peach

Hear, O Israel! no time to wait.
Hire Mount Horeb, leave Jericho.
Then, instead of Joshua’s hate,
Moshe’s light from you may flow.

Jerusalem
1 June 1992

How ironic and poetically just That the blatant ethnic-cleansing And

Could anything ever persuade The fatalistic fundamentalists, Who literalize and

If the complex causes of the catalytic Sado-masochistic syndrome Of

Let’s be straight. Although you deny it, In practice you’ve

Whereas the good and loving One God Endows all humans

Though for many reasons The “two-state solution” Is now dead,