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Article: On the Attitude Toward Children in Wartime.(Poem)
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- October 1, 2006
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On the Attitude Toward Children in Wartime
He who destroys thirty babies
it's as if he'd destroyed three hundred babies,
and toddlers too,
or even eight-and-a-half-year-olds.
In a year, God willing, they'd be soldiers
in the Palestine Liberation Army.
"Benighted children,
at their age
they don't even have a real world view.
Anyway, their future would be shrouded, too:
refugee shacks, unwashed faces,
open sewers in the streets,
infected eyes,
a negative outlook on life."
And thus began the flight from city to village,
from village to burrows in the hills.
As when a man did flee from a lion,
as when he did ...
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