Beirut is Burning!
On Monday July 17, 2006, Agence France Presse reported: “US Ambassador John Bolton said there was no moral equivalence between the civilian casualties from the Israeli raids in Lebanon and those killed in Israel from ‘malicious terrorist acts.'”
A poem written in 1982 by Israeli playwright and poet, Chanoch Levin.
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Beirut is in flames. Beirut is burning
And this is our chance to get rid of all our trash
Throw into the fire your conscience and liberty
Clean the whole area, leave no stone intact
Ignite the books, paper burns well
Don’t be soft hearted, just feed the inferno
Sanitize your house; does anyone yell?
Shove a blazing rag into the gibbering gob
There are doubts? Burn them too! And throw into the flames
the mourns, moans, and groans
The stench of scorched baby flesh
shall cover up many smells
Beirut is in flames. Beirut is burning
Turn everything into ashes, once and for all
Throw into the fire your conscience and liberty
Tomorrow they might, god forbid, flourish again
