ISRAEL HAS GONE MAD AGAIN!

As you run amok like a wounded lion

Bombarding Lebanon with your cluster bombs –

The world is asking, and the posterity too are asking:

Is this offensive just for two of your soldiers

Taken captive by Hezbollah?

Or there is a hidden agenda you are pushing?

O Israel, judge for yourself if you still

Have inside you a grain of conscience as little

As a grain of mustard seed

As you go about pounding the conscience of humanity

Bombing Lebanon to shreds – maiming,

Killing innocent infants and civilians

Thus, returning to ashes the glory of Lebanon

Which took many seasons to reconstruct

After your first devastation of it

And pushing her more than a century backwards.

Israel, judge for yourself and see;

Is it appropriate for the lion, king of the jungle,

To embark on such a gruesome duel with a soldier ant?

Israel, are you out for peace in the Middle East.

Or for a display of military power

But what wisdom is there for the elephant, tetrarch of the jungle

To allow itself to be provoked to the point of destroying

The ant hill of the savanna which took the ants many years to build?

Israel, embarking on this bravado is coming too low.

Meanwhile, let all humanity cry out “disproportionate” from the roof top,

Mountains, hills and valleys, for strength and military might are not

Measured by such unwarranted aggression and this purposeless malignity.

As you have continued to disregard all calls to the round table

For a cease fire by taking undue advantage of the silent sentinel

And the withering cedars of Lebanon, let Israel now speak to Israel.

But let Israel know that the blood of the innocent

Like the blood of Abel will forever cry onto their Maker for a revenge.

  - JOHN ODEY ADUMA, AUGUST 1, 2006.

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