Awaiting the Prisoner of Zion

international | anti-war / imperialism | other press Tuesday February 22, 2005 08:16 by Mary La Rosa

From Within Israel's First Circle

Israel has created a purgatory in which a free man is held prisoner because of nineteen year old memories in a fifty year old brain.

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" Waiting , waiting , waiting" still echoes up and down corridors of a prison in Ashkelon, Israel.
"Waiting, waiting, waiting" is still the mantra that sustains a man confined to a solitary cell for eleven and a half years, and enduring seven further.


Mary La Rosa is a librarian and artist living close to NYC


from the First Circle:

Gran duol mi prese al cor quando lo ’ntesi,
però che gente di molto valore
conobbi che ’n quel limbo eran sospesi

“We are lost, afflicted only this one way:
That having no hope, we live in longing” I heard
These words with heartfelt grief that seized on me

Knowing how many worthy souls endured
Suspension in that Limbo

Dante' s Inferno, Canto IV (31-35)

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