Lawrence
Hall, HSG
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
“Choose You This Day
Whom You Will Serve”
“…for whom war was a fresh terror and the corpses of real people…”
-Matti
Friedman, Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai
A little child ripped from her dead mother’s arms
Is not a
petition for border adjustments
A grandfather murdered while waiting for the bus
Is not a
parliamentary point of order
Teenagers stripped, raped, beaten, tortured, and shot
Are not cool chants
in a university quad
A rotting fragment of a beheaded baby
Is not someone’s
tee-shirt slogan
An elderly woman still marked from Buchenwald
Is a child of
God, not a bargaining chip
No deflections
No whatabouts
No evasions
No excuses
No
Choose you this day whom you will serve.
