Next Year in Jerusalem

One religion , we all know,

used to wish to itself,
to be in Jerusalem....

So each year , at the new-year's-day
they used the slogan :
Next year in Jerusalem !!

Since 1967 , my friends and family
we say the same slogan , ironically,

and with bitterness :
Next Year in Jerusalem !!


This year I say :
Next Year in (the disinfected) Jerusalem !!


The irony remains that when we were inside Jerusalem
they were not forbidden to enter in.....
but now that they are inside Jerusalem ,
we are completely out of it .
( we need a special-permission to spend the Christmas-eve
with our uncle or aunt ,in Jerusalem , who need a permission
to add a floor to their existing house....in Jerusalem ,
and who do not get it , even )


If we are terrorists today ,

it is because we copied them
and if we were to become , also,

supporters of any Apartheid
it is also because of them.


Raja Chemayel