For Whom Will the Bulldozers Roll?

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!

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