From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over whatever it wants in the West Bank, maintaining the brutal siege on Gaza, separating Gaza from the West Bank and, of course, occupying the Syrian Golan heights, all with full U.S. support.
~ Noam Chomsky
Background:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict
I at last conjure from the uniformity
some virgin vineyard celebration
of unity in diversity, ascending in ecstasy
across words chaotic and free
I peel like an orange sublime necessity
as if you gave me visions
of jackhammering poetry
and textural lobes of light
left for the seeking palms
of goosebumped aspirations
I at last do now know how
to smuggle divinity into this corrupt
world, so fugitive and temporary
where are then, the illuminating clues?
I who, cannot seem to make amends
with the cruelty of man
this egoistic animal…
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