Lee Diamond – Jerusalem Oh Jerusalem & ONLY THE JEWS
Jerusalem Oh Jerusalem
King David danced wildly
Before the holy Ark
As he led a national
Procession to his city.
The city that David built
Was to become
The center
The center of our world
The earthly image
Of a heavenly abode
The city of the throne
Of the Holy Nameless One.
David was drunk with joy
Unaware of appearances
As he threw his head backward
In passion
And his skirts flew widely
In the dance uniting
a people with earthly
Jerusalem
Ir shalom
City of peace
City of wholeness
Of completion
Of a truly united nation.
A U.N.
3000 years ago
David the King of Israel
Named our capital city.
Washington-unnamed
As was Paris
London unknown
Amman, Teheran
Athens, all to be
In a distant future
Jerusalem named
Known to all since eternity
The envy of Its world
The clarion call of all
Peoples and religions
Foreign conquerers
Besieged her
All to be defeated
And Jerusalem
Remained above our
Highest joy
We never turned our backs
To her
Our very faces adored her
From our exile from her
And our voice was heard
In the heavens above
And on the earth beLow
And Jerusalem
Our only capital
Returned to our hands
By the hand of God!
Forever —
David, king of Israel
Lives forever in Jerusalem
And the heavenly Jerusalem
Is only a
Local call!
Keep dancing
Oh Israel
A frenzied soul dance
Of passion!
ONLY THE JEWS
195 states in this world
All have determined their capital city.
All other states accept their determination
Only one state
Only the Jewish state
Is denied recognition
Of its capital
With the exception of the
Czech Republic
All 194 states reject
Jerusalem
As the capital of Israel
Not only so called
Arab states
But all states
Reject Israel’s capital city
Yet this has been the capital city of the Jewish people
For longer than most other states existence.
Jerusalem has been occupied
Yes “occupied”
By the Greeks, the Romans,
The Mamelukes, the Ce rusaders, the Turks over many centuries
But never chosen as capital city
By any occupying nation
Only the Jews called Jerusalem
Capital City
Both in ancient Israel
And in modern Israel
Only the Jews carried Jerusalem
In their mouths, hearts and souls
Wherever they were exiled to
And yet
194 nations reject
Jerusalem as Israel’s
Capital!
Justice?
Prejudice?
Anti Semitism ?
Jew hatred.
Why only Jerusalem?
Why only Israel?
Why only the Jews?
There’s a poem
Called: “From the heights of Mt. Scopus”
Which ends with two lines
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem
We will NEVER move from here
Jerusalem, May the Messiah come!”
Jerusalem, May SHALOM come!
