Where do we go from here?

By Lynn Ockersz

To be sure, in the West Bank,

The Peace Flame is sputtering,

While the Gaza lies bloodied,

And gutted in vengeful violence,

Leaving the region entombed,

In a darkness of identity politics,

But where do we go from here?

How do we revive the faded hope,

Of a Mid-East political settlement?

But revert to this precious moment,

Of a 1993 historic peace tryst,

Between Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin,

Which birthed the two-state solution,

And outlined the only rational path,

To lasting peace in the battered region,

Since it holds the key to a shared future,

Between estranged blood relations.