Bibi is an honorable man (with apologies to Shakespeare)
Ḥaverim, Israelis, countrymen, lend me your ears;
It is time to abandon our kidnapped citizens, not to praise them.
Here, under leave of Bibi and the rest–
For Bibi is an honorable man;
So are they all, all honorable men–
Come I to speak in lieu of rescue.
They were my friends, faithful and just to me:
But Bibi says they were ambitious;
And Bibi is an honorable man.
He hath brought many captives home to us
Some of them even on the leftmost wing.
When the poor captives have cried, Bibi hath danced:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Bibi says they are ambitious;
And Bibi is an honorable man.
You all did see that on the Sabbath night
We oft asked politely to redeem our friends,
Which he did oft refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Bibi says they are ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honorable man.
I speak not to disprove what Bibi spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds him now? Redeem our men!
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in Gaza with our captives,
And I must pause till it come back to me.