The Hijacking Of the Seasons

December 14th, 2007 | Category: Israel

The Hijacking Of The Seasons
by: Evelyn Hayes

Tis the season to get ready for the seasons
and in Bethlehem they are not.
Not a Christian is celebrating,
and the Jews are too few. .
The trees aren’t glistening
and the menorah is out.

Hopes of peace are shattered by shot after shot.
Children are cringing under the covers with fear
and visions of seasons past are not bringing cheer.

Rachel Imeinu, David HaMelech, Rabbi Aryeh Levin and HaRav Kook
have been disenfranchised,wiped from so many memories, even the Jews.

The Christians have been denied,
exiled and forgotten by even themselves.
A blowup of Yassir Arafat like those Big Brothers who terrorize
is flying in the breeze
denying the pilgrims
that Kever Rachel and Manger Square once drew.

The parents remember their sugarplums snuggling,
but now its rockets bursting to scare.
It’s papa at the bulletproof windows and mamma on the telephone.
They’re anxious and upset that the mortars are so close -

Out on the lawn there’s a shattering and smattering and shouting and screaming.
They pull down the shades and cower
in their darkened rooms
wondering how faraway sounds of doom will loom.
Inside the houses, there isn’t a peep,
no sleeping, just muffled weeping.

And the world just isn’t there, doesn’t care,
ignores the offensive, denies its keeping..
Even though Beit Jala is paying for staying and Gilo has an army to protect,
hate is appeased and safety measure is denied.

Cry Rachel! Pray David! Protest CIPAC!
Intercede and cease the freedom deniers
and aspire for the season was a delight
a season of love and a season of old,
a season for youth and a season of truth.

Now Straus and Merkaz, JNF and the rabbis are not claiming their claims.
Now the Christian Pilgrims are not coming and there’s sadness and mourning
and the reporting is contorted as the sordid are courted as they loot and uproot

Tis the season that is unseasoned
because the unacceptable is fair, negotiated
and granted by those who are dancing
with those who cause dying,

Woe to the sympathizers with the lies
and the legions who are imported
for exporting legitimacy and law.

As the imported are ignored,
so are the structures that invade the landscape of the sleepy old city
where the PA is building
and building what none can signal home.

It’s all blamed on the Jews and

aimed at the Christians.
Silent nights are not silent anymore.
The old city of Beit Lechem is hijacked:
The City of Love is a Taliban trust, trusting in Hizballah, Tanzin and hate.

The new city of Bethlehem is sacked.
Invaders who hate are police
and have released a barrage of bullets and bombs.
The United Nations is defending hijackings,
ignoring that that is a examining for more unrest.

From deserts to mountains, continent to continent,
denying Chanukah and Christmas
in Bethlehem is dampening spirits everywhere.

Our seasons uprooted are the hijacking of hijackings,
and the tears that are toasted
are reroasted and baked by CNN and BBC
and those who would fake that there ever were
others that really belong.

Politics unmakes society;
disclaimers are arming, harming and aiming for all.
Can we continue to produce believe that truth is unbelievable?

Will the grinch give Chanukah and Christmas back?
When will he fall? Nothing is achievable when deception is right
and delusions of peace are teamed
with preclusions of accords that are naught and forgotten is the L-rd.

Can that really be Bethlehem,the city of Rachel Imeinu and David HaMelech,
a city of menorahs and lights and pilgrims galore,
ambushed like Hevron and Schem and all the redeployments.

Tis the season to reestablish settlement,
those good old days of interaction and development,
responsibility and possibility and actual peace.

Tis the season to respect our traditions
of creation and love. It’s a day to be merry,
not bushwhacked and hijacked.
Happy holiday to all and to all don’t forget
the public of the seasons
because love for one another all began here.

Original post by Yehudi01