One stands on the Mts of Hebron <br />the other on the Judean Hills <br />glaring possessively at Jerusalem <br />fierce warriors of rhetoric, claiming halo of history <br />disclaiming the rights of Sarah and Hagar <br />Jacob and Ishmael <br /> <br />sing and praise prowess of <br />murder and plunder, send more <br />young sons to settle the score, <br />throw the old fools into the valley of Gai ben Hinome <br />let their bodies rot, names unremembered <br /> <br />the cycle to stop with a new generation <br />refusing to trade blood of the past <br />for a share of the future<br /><br />shimon weinroth<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/old-fools-on-the-hills/
