The Palestinians’ Hypocrisy on Syria
And Syrian hypocrisy on the Palestinians.
April 19, 2016
A poem.
Traditionally, the Passover seder concludes with the singing of Ḥad Gadya. The great Israeli poet and playwright Nathan Alterman made the titular animal, “a kid that Father bought for two zuz,” the subject of poem, newly translated into English by Dan Ben-Amos. It begins thus:
And Syrian hypocrisy on the Palestinians.
Two very different reactions.
Israel, Poland, and Putin.
A poem.
Remembering John Henry Patterson.
Traditionally, the Passover seder concludes with the singing of Ḥad Gadya. The great Israeli poet and playwright Nathan Alterman made the titular animal, “a kid that Father bought for two zuz,” the subject of poem, newly translated into English by Dan Ben-Amos. It begins thus:
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