Listen, Israel

Translation / Interpretation / Caption Text / Source

German translation:

Listen, Israel

When we were being chased, I was one of them 

How can I stay that way when you become persecutors?

Your longing was to become like the people who murdered you. Now you have become like them

You have survived those who were cruel to you

Does their cruelty live on in you now?

The impression of bare feet in the desert sand survives the traces of your bombs and tanks

You commanded those who were beaten: "Take off your shoes" 

You drove them into the desert like a scapegoat

Into the great mosque of death whose sandals are sand

But they did not accept the sin that you wanted to put on them.

Erich Fried, 1974

____________________________________________________

Source:

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1dKpxDYugnOv1QQc4n1FA4y-m1zq_B05S