Due not least to constant
\nU.S. vetoes
\nOf U.N. resolutions
\nIn New York,
\nIsrael’s occupation
\nOf Palestinian land and lives
\nPersists.<\/p>\n
Meantime, America’s
\nPander President,
\nHis eye on re-election
\nAnd the impending threat
\nOf a nuclear-arsenalled
\nShiite Iran,
\nIn the name of Abraham
\nIs keenly brokering
\nThe lucrative marriage
\nOf hubristic Israeli hi-tech
\nAnd Hell-extracted Saudi oil.
\nEmperor Biniaminus
\nAnd Sultan Binsalman
\nAre poised to tie the knot.<\/p>\n
Fifty years ago,
\nOn Yom Kippur,
\nI was watching a battle
\nBetween black and red ants
\nIn the wilderness
\nBehind the Mount of Olives.
\nPink Floyd’s haunting “Us and Them”,
\nTo which I’d listened that very day,
\nEchoed in my mind.
\nSuddenly the desert was invaded
\nBy the urgent, undulating wail
\nOf a ghostly siren.<\/p>\n
Tiptoeing past a cluster
\nOf clamorous Palestinian youths —
\nTransistor radios at their ears —
\nNear the Garden of Gethsemane,
\nI returned to the campus
\nOf the Hebrew University
\nOn adjacent Mount Scopus,
\nWhere in 70 A.D.
\nTitus’ besieging army
\nHad encamped.
\nToday, in true Orwellian fashion,
\nJerusalem has become
\nThe new Rome.<\/p>\n
As for the deity
\nWho would be worshipped
\nIn the prospective
\nThird Temple,
\nHe might just as well
\nBe called Mars.<\/p>\n
Ramat Gan
\n13 August 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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