Right to Exist

The Electronic Intifada

The trap of recognising Israel by Jonathan Cook

14 December 2006

The problem facing the Palestinian leadership, as they strive to bring the millions living in the occupied territories some small relief from their collective suffering, reduces to a matter of a few words.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6229.shtml

NewsPoet writes:

"Right to Exist"

Israel exists.

How Israel came to exist
Is history.
Learn from history.
Do not live in the past.

Israel exists.

Families feud.
Fact of life.
Hate your brother.
Hate yourself.
Let go of hate.

Israel exists.

What do you
Covet in Jerusalem?

Whom do you
Envy in Israel?

What do you
Covet in
The West Bank?

Whom do you
Envy in Sumaria?

Desire what is
Right and true.
Forsake envy.
Covet no thing.

Israel exists.

Are you now
Docile and humble
Beggars seeking
Alms from the world?

Israel exists.

You have the same
Right to exist.

Grasp onto the truth.
Speak out in
Truth and Justice.

You will have much
To give to the world
When Palestine exists
Shoulder to shoulder
With Israel.