Bella Bellissima

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• This is a story worth educating children with
• This is a worthy story

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• Tuesday, 12th May, 1992
• A woman steps out of her house in Jerusalem
• Normal standard day nothing special like any
  other day

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• A load of kids in the streets there was a
  teachers strike
• Same time exactly a revolting terrorist
• Pulls out a kitchen knife and with it stabs two
  innocent kids

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• Another mad cruel attack
• Another nationalist attack

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• He sets off running because a mob is in pursuit
• And catches him after a few seconds in the
  carpark
• tens of people kicking him they want to close
  the score

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• I dont judge them, its an irrational event
• Its a flawed situation, awful, revolting, unclear

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• But then turns up the woman and alters the end of
  the story
• Because she straight off throws herself on the
  terrorist and

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• protects with her body the terrorist who is also
  a human though without her body would have ended
  up a corpse

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• I dont understand, werent you afraid with that
  madman beneath you and the mob so close?
• Wouldnt it have been easier to get up and
  leave?

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• She replied to the journalist that she didnt
  have time to think.
• She replied to the journalist that she didnt
  have time to think.

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• That incident with the woman is engraved in my
  head
• Where did she get the strength to lie there
  without moving, without fear

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• I ask myself what I would have done in her place
• If at the same moment I had been in the area

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• Its clear to me that I wouldnt have gone over
  to boot him
• But to be fair and to tell the truth
• I dont think I would have been capable of
  behaving like her

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• Much more typical for me to get up and run away
• Or at the most to try to find a policeman or
  something

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• But she lay there until her strength waned
• 20 minutes she took all those kicks
• Her kids watched and didnt stop crying.

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• This lady did not turn into a symbol
• And in effect her name has been erased from
  consciousness.

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• There is no stamp with her face
• Perhaps because Israel is not yet ready and is
  not willing
• To bring to its breast a hero

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• whose heroism is not war-like, a hero
• whose heroism is not military, a hero
• whose heroism is just moral

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• a hero who is a woman, and a haredit at that.

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• Know this, dear woman, that I did not forget
• The story of your heroism I promised to myself
• That this story is worth educating children with

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• Its a story that is worth educating children
  with
• Its a story that is worth educating children
  with
• Its a story thats worthy

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Bella Bellissima