Anonymous ID: c24e18 July 6, 2022, 7:36 a.m. No.16635976   🗄️.is 🔗kun

‘My country changed her face’: Pelosi responds to abortion ruling with Israeli poem

 

US House speaker reads Ehud Manor poem after seismic Supreme Court decision; top Democrat previously quoted poet after Jan. 6 Capitol attack, met with his widow in Israel

 

The top Democrat in the US Congress quoted an Israeli poet and songwriter as she blasted the conservative-led US Supreme Court’s “outrageous and heart-wrenching” decision overturning the federally-guaranteed right to abortion Friday.

 

In an emotional news conference, an angered House Speaker Nancy Pelosi quoted Ehud Manor’s poem “I Have No Other Land” (“Ein Li Eretz Aheret” in Hebrew), which she previously read during a speech in the wake of the January 6 attack.

 

“I have no other country even though my land is burning. Only a word in Hebrew penetrates my veins and my soul, with an aching body and with a hungry heart,” she read.

 

“Here is my home. I will not be silent, for my country has changed her face,” a clearly emotional Pelosi said, before repeating “my country has changed her face.”

 

“I shall not give up on her. I will remind her and sing into her ears until she opens her eyes,” Pelosi said.

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/my-country-changed-her-face-pelosi-responds-to-abortion-ruling-with-israeli-poem/