This poem was penned following the suicide bombing in Ben Yehuda Street in September 1997. Taken from The Promised Land magaine of Betar-Tagar UK.

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MAGNET BENEATH THE LAND

By Michael Katz


Is there a magnet way beneath the land?

A force so strong, so many take a stand

Empires and nations have all claimed the right

To conquer and govern and when necessary, fight

Promises were made and broken

Declarations went unspoken

Till finally a price was paid

Six million graves were newly laid

The cost for a people without a nation

Had G-d now finally granted salvation

To survive and continue the war must be won

But the fiercest of battles had only begun

Independence had finally been attained

But peace was the question that still remained

50 Years on and the questions still there

In a land not so desolate, ragged or bare

The force of the magnet pulls harder than ever

Beneath the land that will be forever

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