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| This is a story worth educating children with (x3) Tuesday, 12th May, 1992 A woman steps out of her house in Jerusalem Normal standard day nothing special like any other day A load of kids in the streets – there was a teachers’ strike Same time exactly a revolting terrorist Pulls out a kitchen knife and with it stabs two innocent kids Another mad cruel attack Another nationalist attack He sets off running because a mob is in pursuit And catches him after a few seconds in the carpark tens of people kicking him – they want to close the score I don’t judge them, it’s an irrational event It’s a flawed situation, awful, revolting, unclear But then turns up the woman and alters the end of the story because she straight off throws herself on the terrorist andprotects with her body the terrorist who is also a human though without her body would have ended up a corpse "I don’t understand, weren’t you afraid with that madman beneath you and the mob so close? "Wouldn’t it have been easier to get up and leave?" She replied to the journalist that she didn’t have time to think. She replied to the journalist that she didn’t have time to think. Bella bellissima... That incident with the woman is engraved in my head Where did she get the strength to lie there without moving, without fear I ask myself what I would have done in her place If at the same moment I had been in the area It’s clear to me that I wouldn’t have gone over to boot him But to be fair and to tell the truth I don’t think I would have been capable of behaving like her Much more typical for me to get up and run away Or at the most to try to find a policeman or something But she lay there until her strength waned 20 minutes she took all those kicks Her kids watched and didn’t stop crying. Bella Bellissima…... This lady did not turn into a symbol And in effect her name has been erased from consciousness. There is no stamp with her face Perhaps because Israel is not yet ready and is not willing To bring to its breast a hero whose heroism is not war-like, a hero whose heroism is not military, a hero whose heroism is just moral a hero who is a woman, and a haredit at that. Know this, dear woman, that I did not forget The story of your heroism I promised to myself That this story is worth educating children with It’s a story that is worth educating children with (x3) Bella Bellissima... |
