Wednesday, October 29, 2014

"Klinghoffer Re-visited"

The Metropolitan Opera has posted the libretto of "Death of Klinghoffer" on it web site.  Here is a piece sung by one of the terrorists.  Do you really believe that these words are not anti-Semitic (though, admittedly, they are the ravings of an outraged, angry and hateful terrorist)?  If similar disparaging words had been used to denigrate blacks or Muslims - do you think an opera including such words would have been written, no less performed?

"RAMBO"
You are always complaining Of your suffering
But wherever poor men Are gathered they can

Find Jews getting fat.
You know how to cheat
The simple, exploit
the virgin, pollute
Where you have exploited, Defame those you cheated, And break your own law With idolatry.
America
Is one big Jew.
What did you say?
You are old and ugly.
Not for one day
Will your children miss you. I hear a belly growl;
The voice of your soul.
Go on then, kneel,
Beg me, beg me to permit You something to eat
And a chance for a piss.
I see you cross
Your swollen legs.
Nobody begs?
That was your last chance. Just this once
You can befoul yourselves. You are all wolves,
Wolves without teeth.
You should think of death, But you meditate
On dirty meat,
And your own unclean flesh. Are you English?
Your Balfour Declaration Led to the partition
And the dissolution
Of the Palestinian nation.


Where English is spoken You will find perversion And all kinds of filth Not practised by stealth Late at night,
But on the street
During the day.
You wink at sodomy. You laugh at blasphemy. You give no charity

To the oppressed.
What did your watch cost?
Is it solid gold?
How many mouths could be filled If this were sold.
Your wrists are thick
But I can make
Bigger ones crack.
There. You may have it back. 

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