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Violent Streets and Their Collateral Damage
EVOLUTION OF THOUGHT:
A POEM ON COLLATERAL DAMAGE
Prehistoric Times: Will Enemy Come with Knife?
Greeks: What Is Beauty? What is Democracy?
Medievals: What is Logic? What is the Perfect Being?
Renaissance: How can Human Life Flourish? What is at Centre, Earth or Sun?
Modern: What Are the Limits of Science? What is Language?
Postmodern: What is Identity? What is Narrative?
21st Century Jewish: What was the Holocaust? What is Zionism? What is an Israeli? Religion and State? Land for Peace? Does Tradition Evolve? What is Halacha/ Role of Feminism/ the Root of Anti-Semitism? Who is a Jew? What About Homosexuality?
Streets of Jerusalem, October 2015. British-Israeli woman, several university degrees, loves to think, debate and discuss:
…Will Enemy Come with Knife?
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(With thanks to Dr Sam Lebens for his philosophical help)
