By Louis Frankenthaler
For Whom Will the Bulldozers Roll?
For Whom?
For You ‘Good People’ of Kfar Adumin
The Bulldozers will Roll Over
Your Neighbor Khan al-Ahmar!
For Whom Will The Bulldozers Roll Over Khan al-Ahmar?
For Whom?
For You Good Doctor
And For You Former Ambassador
Of Kfar Adumim
Who Have Awoken and Cried Out…
Too Late?
But for You The
Bulldozers Will Roll Over Your
Neighbors In ‘Kfar” Khan al-Ahmar
For Whom Will The Bulldozers Roll Over Khan al-Ahmar?
For Whom?
For You ‘Salt of the Earth’ in
Mishor or Maaleh Adumim…
Where Their Flocks Once Grazed
Once Watered
But You Need Not See them…
No More!
For You the Bulldozers Will Roll Asunder
The Good People of Khan al-Ahmar!
For Whom Will The Bulldozers Roll Over Khan al-Ahmar?
For Whom?
For You, You Settler in Area C!
For You the Bulldozer Pave the Road for
Annexation for the Occupation
For You The Bulldozer Will Flatten
Democracy
For You the Bulldozer Will Run Over
Human Rights
For Whom Will The Bulldozers Roll Over Khan al-Ahmar?
For Whom?
For The Entire People Of the State of Israel!
Who Cannot See
Do Not See
Refuse to See
The Good People of Khan al-Ahmar
And if… If You See
You Do Not Care
About the Good People of Khan al-Ahmar
For Whom Will The Bulldozers Roll Over Khan al-Ahmar?
For Whom?
For you the Entire Global Jewish People
Who May Have Seen or May Have Cared
Or not!
Who May Have Spoken out
Or Not!
The Government of Israel’s
Bulldozers Will Roll Over Khan al-Ahmar
Like it Or Not,
In Your Name!
For Whom Will The Bulldozers Roll Over Khan al-Ahmar?
For Whom?
For You and For Me
The Activist, The Protestor, The Demonstrator, The Dissenter
For Those of Us Who See
For Those of Us Who Care
For those of Us Who Object
For Us Too
Though We Have Tried
To Stand in the Way
His Bulldozers Will DESTROY
Khan al-Ahmar!
For Whom Will The Bulldozers Roll Over Khan al-Ahmar?
For Whom?
For You Know Who!
He is the Driver
He Fills the Tank
He Plans the Route
He Has Taken Over
Bulldozed Democracy
Bulldozed Peace
Bulldozed Human Rights
For All of Us He Drives the Bulldozer over
Khan al-Ahmar
On its Way for You and For Me!
