{"id":309,"date":"2006-07-18T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2023-04-06T10:01:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T17:01:24","slug":"beirut-is-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/beirut-is-burning.html","title":{"rendered":"Beirut is Burning!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.'”<\/p>\n

A poem written in 1982 by Israeli playwright and poet, Chanoch Levin.<\/p>\n

______________________________________________________<\/p>\n

Beirut is in flames. Beirut is burning<\/strong><\/p>\n

And this is our chance to get rid of all our trash
\nThrow into the fire your conscience and liberty
\nClean the whole area, leave no stone intact<\/p>\n

\"Beirut<\/p>\n

Ignite the books, paper burns well
\nDon\u2019t be soft hearted, just feed the inferno
\nSanitize your house; does anyone yell?
\nShove a blazing rag into the gibbering gob<\/p>\n

\"Beirut<\/p>\n

There are doubts? Burn them too! And throw into the flames
\nthe mourns, moans, and groans
\nThe stench of scorched baby flesh
\nshall cover up many smells<\/p>\n

\"scorched<\/p>\n

Beirut is in flames. Beirut is burning
\nTurn everything into ashes, once and for all
\nThrow into the fire your conscience and liberty
\nTomorrow they might, god forbid, flourish again<\/p>\n

\"no<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. ______________________________________________________ Beirut is in flames. Beirut is burning And this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}