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J'Accuse

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From: Forward
Date: 20030919
Author:Tone, Jeff

Tone, Jeff
Forward
09-19-2003
In "J'Accuse," whose title is taken from Emile Zola's famed letter against
the French government during the Dreyfus Affair, Israeli poet Aharon
Shabtai accuses his society of brutally oppressing the Palestinians. In the
title poem, Shabtai refers to Mohammed al-Dura, photos of whose death at
the side of his father were flashed throughout the world. (Later, there was
some dispute as to which of the warring parties caused his death.) Shabtai
states, "The sniper who shot at Muhammad the child... wasn't acting alone."
Behind him is a whole raft of "technicians of ...

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