The radio relates the current violence
in Jerusalem
a city that through centuries has seen
more than her share
twenty-five years have passed
since I was there
and saw the sites
of Palestinian homes
destroyed back in the forties
bombed to make them
uninhabitable
it seemed horrific then
and now again
we see the Jewish state
evicting Arabs
from their homes to make room
for the so-called "settlers"
it makes me sick at heart
that fellow jews
have turned to weapons
of contemporary warfare
killing even if inadvertently
women and children
I'm ready to renounce
my membership
but better to speak out
to ask the question
some are already asking
will the price
of a Jewish homeland
be the loss
of Jewish values
of the Jewish soul?