How much would you pay for the life of your beloved? 
Your mother, your child, your father, your brother? 

One hundred, one thousand, a million? 
Dollars, shekels, terrorists, murderers? 

What is one more false promise of peace worth?
One soldier, five zeydes, ten righteous women? 

If you had to choose to watch your child murdered
or have your child watch you being raped, which would you choose?

If you were Sophie, which child would live & why?
If you were God, would you wish you had never spoken?

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