I shall vist Israel , WHEN ??????

I Shall Visit Israel, by Paul Grenville
Posted: 03 Jul 2008 02:27 AM CDT
I shall visit Israel
I shall visit Israel when the olive trees are in blossom
I shall visit Israel when an Arab can marry a Jew
I shall visit Israel when Torah Jews are no longer beaten up in the streets of Jerusalemfor reminding their countrymen of the commandments of Moses
I shall visit Israel when the speaking of Arabic in certain neighbourhoods no longer causes heads to turn
I shall visit Israel when the learning of Arabic is mandatory in Israeli schools
I shall visit Israel when Arab and Jewish children mingle freely in one system of state education
I shall visit Israel when the 7 million refugees from the land of Palestine can choose between a country they can call their own, or compensation for what they lost
I shall visit Israel when the invaders make peace with the invaded (not the other way about)
I shall visit Israel when there is a public apology for the war crimes of 1948
and compensation for the families of the victims
I shall visit Israel when West Bank settlers on stolen land no longer shoot to kill the natives and get off scot free
I shall visit Israel when her soldiers no longer shoot down unarmed children in cold blood and call it a mistake
I shall visit Israel when the Wall is demolished by Israelis and Palestinians together
I shall visit Israel when the house demolitions stop
I shall visit Israel when 600 West Bank checkpoints are taken down and the bullying, humiliation, beating and rape of Palestinian citizens stops
I shall visit Israel when to be born Palestinian is not a reason to be hunted and spied upon
I shall visit Israel when Jews stop arriving from far away and calling it their land
I shall visit Israel when Gaza is no longer the cruel laboratory experiment in slow genocide that it is today
I shall visit Israel when her planes stop bombing and strafing towns in Gaza
and terrifying the people at night with sonic booms
I shall visit Israel when the Lebanon and Gaza are no longer grisly testing grounds for new weapons
I shall visit Israel when Israel ceases to invade her neighbours on the slightest of pretexts and cause devastation
I shall visit Israel when 10,000 Palestinian prisoners are released from jail and pardoned for acts of resistance
against a state that took their country by force of arms and terror
I shall visit Israel when the routine practice of torture in Israeli prisons stops
I shall visit Israel when a Romanian fascist is no longer part of the government
I shall visit Israel when the illegal villages are made legal
I shall visit Israel when the Bedouin of the Negev are no longer persecuted
I shall visit Israel when Arab towns and villages have the same status and funding as Jewish ones
I shall visit Israel when the land is shared by all Semites - Arabs and Jews
I shall visit Israel when the Jewish state is an unhappy memory
I shall visit Israel when Nazi war crimes against the Jews are used to justify every
imaginable cruelty in a land where they are still the uninvited guest…
I shall visit Israel when the name of Israel is no longer another excuse to hate the Jews
Paul Grenville 1st July 2008