I Don't Know If History Repeats Itself

Yehuda AmichaiYehuda Amichai

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I don't Know if history repeats itself
But I do know that you don't.I remember that city was didvided
Not only between Jews and Arabs,
But Between me and you,
When we were there together.We made ourselves a womb of dangers
We built ourselves a house of deadening wars
Like men of far north
Who build themselves a safe warm house of deadening ice.The city has been reunited
But we haven't been there together.
By now I know
That History doesn't repeat itself,
As I always knew that you wouldn't.
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Yehuda Amichai

1924 - 2000/IsraeliYehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet. Amichai was born in Germany, then immigrated with his family to Palestine in 1936. He fought in the Israeli War of Independence as a young man, but became an advocate of peace and reconciliation in the re…

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