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Mon Jul-17-06 09:43 PM
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One Truth and Not Two by Uri Zvi Greenberg
(interpreted from Hebrew by Laurence Cramer)
Your Rabbis taught: A land is bought with money You buy the land and work it with a hoe. And I say: A land is not bought with money And with a hoe you also dig and bury the dead. And I say: A land is conquered with blood. And only when conquered with blood is hallowed to the people With the holiness of the blood. And only one who follows after the cannon in the field, Thus wins the right to follow after his good plow On this, the field that was conquered. And only such a field gives nourishing and healthy bread And the house which arises on its hill is truly a fortress and a temple, Because in this field there is honorable blood. Your Rabbis taught: The messiah will come in future generations: And Judea will arise without fire and without blood. It will arise with every tree, with every additional house. And I say: If your generation will be slow And will not grasp in its hands and forcibly mold its future And in fire will not come with the Shield of David And in blood will not come with its horses saddled - The Messiah will not come even in a far off generation. Judea will not arise. And you will be living slaves to every foreign ruler. Your houses will be straw for the sparks of every wicked one. And your trees will be cut down with their ripe fruit. And a man will react the same as a babe To the sword of the enemy - And only your ramblings will remain - yours... And your statue, an eternal curse. Your Rabbis taught: There is one truth for the nations: Blood for blood - but it is not a truth for Jews. And I say: There is one truth and not two. As there is one sun and as there are not two Jerusalems. It was written in the Law of Conquest of Moses and Joshua Until the last of my kings and my traitors have consumed. And there will be a day when from the river of Egypt until the Euphrates And from the sea until the mountain passes of Moav my boys will go up And they will call my enemies and my haters to the last battle. And the blood will decide: Who is the only ruler here.
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