Israel

You've had your troubles Israel
I've seen them all
But you put the writing on the wall
Israel Israel yeah

You know I've seen you fall so many times
I've cried for you and that's a crime
Israel Israel Israel

Where there's sand
Where there's beautiful sand yeah
You know you got a kind of feeling
That's just grand
Take me into your arms
Let me be with you
Israel Israel Israel

I like the smiles up on your people's faces
They make you feel warm embraces
And I want that kind of smile

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song performed by Bee Gees from Trafalgar
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What Is A Jewish Poem?

WHAT IS A JEWISH POEM?

What is a Jewish poem?
‘Shema’ is a Jewish poem
Perhaps the Jewish poem-
'Shmoneh Esreh' is comprised of Jewish poems
Nineteen prayers as one-
Our history is filled with Jewish poems-
From the beginning with Abraham and Sarah
Those who have given so much beyond our understanding -
Jewish poems everywhere -

Is each Jewish life a poem and a story also?
Or is it only those who give something to our people and history
Who are worthy of Poetry?

I have known many Jewish poems
People the great world will not know the names of
People who whether they walked humbly or not
Made the lives of others better in some way –

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poem by Shalom Freedman
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We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

quote by Ira Glass
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Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal.

quote by Alcee Hastings
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The Holocaust never quite leaves Israeli Jews alone. Arabs use it against them and they use it against Arabs. Jews use it against other Jews. Even the president of the United States, it seems, can use it against the prime minister of Israel.

quote by David K. Shipler
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On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.

quote by Walter Kohn
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Israel O Israe

Israel O Israel
God came for you in flesh and blood
Left Christ with the key to hell
To Heaven too, yet you can’t tell
Israel O Israel.
Woman travails with sin as a child
Bishops cry
Angels sigh
Men die
And you labour in birth
Alas a child without breath
Israel O Israel
Suffer not your child to wrath.

Woman walks around naked
Still she is blackened, darkened
In sight
Cavalry is full of blood
Blood O blood
Don’t go don’t dry

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poem by Chanda Mwenechanya
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Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

quote by Geraldo Rivera
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Go Tell It That The Jews Arrived In Israel

Go tell it that the jews arrived in Israel
To celebrate
The birth of Jesus
Go tell it that the jews arrived in Israel
To crown Jesus
Our king

poem by Aldo Kraas
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Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.

quote by Ahmed Yassin
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On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace.

quote by Rafik Hariri
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On The Day Of The Funeral Of Hanan Porat Z' TS'L

ON THE DAY OF THE FUNERAL OF HANAN PORAT Z’Ts”L

You died on a day of irony
The same day the European Union today recognized the ‘Palestinian Authority’ as a ‘Democracy’
Another sign the dream you lived your life for
The return of all of Eretz Yisrael
Apparently will not completely be-

Yet the life
With all its longing, sacrifice and heroism,
With its all realization of a dream of return,

With the exile of childhood and the years of study and work
And the victory and return of 67’
And the war and wounding of 73’

And the stubborn courage of returning to and building Gush Etzion-

And all the years of teaching Torah
And inspiring others-

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poem by Shalom Freedman
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He that would cheat a Jew, must be a Jew.

German proverbs
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Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.

quote by Douglas Feith
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I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.

quote by Jonathan Miller
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I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.

quote by Natalie Portman
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I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

quote by Steven Spielberg
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I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state.

quote by Yitzhak Rabin
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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

quote by A.B. Yehoshua
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Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map.

quote by Ahmed Yassin
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