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2025-05-20 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

IDF soldier killed in Strip; Hamas-linked agency raises day’s Gazan death toll to 91

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Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-20 2025-05-20 00:46|| || Front Page|| [94 views ] Top
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#1 Silver Platter

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-05-20 04:23|| 2025-05-20 04:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Eh? That’s a tad cryptic, Grom dear.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-20 04:27|| 2025-05-20 04:27|| Front Page Top

#3 A Silver Platter
By Natan Alterman
And the land grows still, the red eye of the sky slowly dimming over smoking
frontiers
As the nation arises,
Torn at heart but breathing,
To receive its miracle, the only miracle
As the ceremony draws near,
It will rise, standing erect in the moonlight in terror and joy
When across from it will step out a youth and a lass and slowly march toward
the nation
Dressed in battle gear, dirty,
Shoes heavy with grime, they ascend the path quietly
To change garb, to wipe their brow
They have not yet found time.
Still bone weary from days and from nights in the field
Full of endless fatigue and unrested,
Yet the dew of their youth.
Is still seen on their head
Thus they stand at attention, giving no sign of life or death
Then a nation in tears and amazement will ask: "Who are you?"
And they will answer quietly,
"We Are the silver platter on which the Jewish state was given."
Thus they will say and fall back in shadows
And the rest will be told
In the chronicles of Israel

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-05-20 04:36|| 2025-05-20 04:36|| Front Page Top

#4 תודה רבה.

That seems like something I should have studied in my Hebrew school Modern Israeli Lit. class, but if so I’ve completely forgotten. It hit me like a hammer.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-20 05:07|| 2025-05-20 05:07|| Front Page Top

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