Written by Peter Edler   

Israel versus Easter
or What sort of yahoo are you
if you don’t like Netanyahu?

Of all the nations of the distant past
only memory remains, some tablets, ruins
brain waves, that’s what empires become
read up about it in the Bible when God
still kept a firm hand in politics speaking
to David, Moses, Solomon, why shouldn’t God
tell Netanyahu what to do? Why shouldn’t
Allah have chatted with Osama or Obama?
With Romney, Merkel, Sarkozy,
before the latter phoned Berlusconi?

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those
who trespass against ten eyes for a tooth
and the truth about John Wilkes Booth
whom Honest Abe forgave as he lay dying.
Who then could have imagined that Lincoln
once having freed the slaves and gone to bed
quite satisfied with what he’d done would
be remembered having been an anti-Semite
falsely, perhaps, it may be true, but better safe
than sorry if you are Bibi and you worry.

Let’s start by looking at ourselves
and not by judging others or their plans
before we judge ourselves, before we’re perfect.
We shouldn’t cast the first stone at that prostitute
Go forth and sin no more said Jesus to the woman
and love your neighbor as you love yourself.
Nobody is exempt from love, not I nor you
nor those in far-flung Timbuktu, do unto others
as you wish Likud do unto you and that includes,
regrettably, that fearless guru Netanyahu.


© Peter Edler 2012