Ever more relevant is "Season of the Camomile" by the late Palestinian poet Samir Rantisi, written in 1988, soon after the killing of an Israeli and a Palestinian near the village of Beita. An excerpt:
How many more ordinary mornings
will fill us with horror
and transform our day to another sky;
who chose us
to be the victim and the symbol
to be the beginning of the beginnings,
the moment of historical trial;
we, the two dreamers,
the routine, the ordinary,
who chose usto be the heart of the conflict
and the crossroads of time
...
why didn't you find someone besides me to be a symbol?
why didn't they find someone besides you to be a victim?
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