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[00:00.17][00:05.17]In nineteen hundred forty five[00:09.41]Among the Jews who were left alive[00:13.05]There came a visionary man[00:17.89]Who turned his wrath into a plan[00:22.07]Abba Kovner was his name[00:25.57]As a partisan he earned his fame[00:30.37]He was a Vilna rebel Jew[00:34.68]A poet warrior through & through[00:38.55]He met some surviving ghetto fighters[00:41.10]Zionists & socialists conspired[00:43.46]They gathered in a Lublin flat[00:45.00]& round the kitchen table sat[00:47.00]They gave themselves a Hebrew name[00:51.42]& with this word they did proclaim[00:55.19]That vengeance is what God would will,[00:57.27]Were there a God, & so they'd kill[01:00.06]Six million Germans...[01:01.93]You might say it was insane[01:04.08]Six million Germans...[01:06.06]That it was misdirected pain[01:08.05]Six million Germans...[01:10.26]They didn't want the war to end[01:12.30]Six million Germans...[01:14.37]They wanted one thing, Nakam: Revenge[01:20.59]For every Jew the nazis gassed[01:24.25]For every racist law they passed[01:28.72]For every wrong that wasn't right[01:32.69]For all the dead Nakam would fight[01:36.79]They formed a band of forty strong[01:40.75]To straighten out what had been wrong[01:44.77]They chose to poison water mains[01:48.87]Just as the Jews of old were blamed[01:53.03]In Nuremberg & Hamburg town[01:55.17]Their agents worked the underground[01:57.02]They took up jobs by the riverside[01:59.29]& waited for the poison to arrive[02:01.19]& Kovner went to Tel Aviv[02:05.03]To see what help he could receive[02:09.18]But the Haganah did not agree[02:11.60]To join in his conspiracy[02:13.77]Six million Germans...[02:15.92]You might say it wasn't right[02:17.88]Six million Germans...[02:19.77]An eye for an eye leaves all without sight[02:22.23]Six million Germans...[02:23.94]They didn't want to make amends[02:26.35]Six million Germans...[02:28.13]They wanted one thing, Nakam: Revenge[02:38.13][02:46.39]So Abba Kovner headed back[02:50.20]With vials of poison in his sack[02:54.51]Upon an British navy ship[02:58.58]But to his plan the Brits were tipped[03:02.85]They took him into custody[03:06.68]& the poison fell into the sea[03:10.26]Kovner spent a year in jail[03:14.72]& so plan A did not prevail[03:18.70]The rest of the group was dispersed[03:20.81]& all their backup plans were cursed[03:22.94]But in an agent in a bakery he[03:24.64]Secured some poison from Paris[03:26.86]As soon as the poison bread had risen[03:30.55]He took it to an allied prison[03:34.64]& various reports have said[03:36.78]There were 100's of SS prisoners dead[03:38.98]Six million Germans...[03:40.83]You might say that it was wrong[03:42.77]Six million Germans...[03:44.34]But were their actions weak or strong?[03:46.87]Six million Germans...[03:48.71]& who are we to judge & condemn?[03:50.65]Six million Germans...[03:52.55]They wanted one thing, Nakam: Revenge[04:02.13]& so Nakam was all disbanded[04:05.80]On Palestina's shore they landed[04:09.54]& Abba Kovner & his crew[04:13.62]Became like many other Jews[04:17.35]They put aside their rage & hate[04:21.30]& worked to build a Jewish state[04:25.09]With Jewish towns & Jewish farms,[04:29.02]& Jewish guns & nuclear arms[04:32.84]Now can vengeance put upon a shelf[04:35.21]Be taken out later on someone else?[04:37.30]Well careful how you read this tale.[04:38.90]Lest your own prejudice prevail[04:40.59]For look around the world today[04:44.23]& consider the role vengeance plays[04:48.12]For history has its unpaid debts[04:50.75]& is it better if we forget?[04:52.30]Six million Germans...[04:54.27]You might say it was absurd[04:56.28]Six million Germans...[04:58.15]But what becomes of a dream deferred?[04:59.94]Six million Germans...[05:01.89]& how could they just start again?[05:03.92]Six million Germans...[05:05.57]They wanted one thing, Nakam: Revenge
