From my opinion, this poem is about how the people in Palestine suffering from war which caused a big amount of death. The poet, Naomi Shihab Nye who had lived in Jerusaleem had seen these horrible drama herself and could feel the depression,disappointment and anger of Palestinian. So, she describe these feeling onto this poem. The line "A brother and sister were playing with toys when their room exploded" totally touched my heart because she told us about how cruel the Israel's army is even towards the kids. Besides, "In what language is this holy",the poet asked if this cruelty is honourable action and can be accepted by anyone?
In the second stanza, " The Jewish boys killed in the cave were skipping school, having an adventure." tell us that while many Palestinian children were killed by the army, the Jewish boys are enjoying themselves deadly. How unfair the world is. The war that started by the Israel is just a 'drama' which the reality is they trying to eliminate the Muslim in Palestine and conquer it because as we all know, there is no such country name ISRAEL.
In this poem, the poet also tell us that war is not good at all. As we can see, war have caused a lot of loss in case of money, time, properties, and the most important thing is LIFE. Many Palestinian lost their family members in front of their own eyes which this will cause deep depression along their life and take very long time to be heal. " I spit in the face of this ugly world" says by an Arab father on crutches burying his 4 month girl can describe his feeling towards this cruel world. " Picking up things to throw and shoot: at the same time people were studying history ,going to school." is talked about how we,which is not being in Palestine and facing the war, are being fooled by the history and ignored the truth.
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