We Are All Settlers

by Evelyn Hayes


I'd love to be a settler and come home to the promised land
No more sojournings from where they want us gone.

I'd love to be a settler with Avraham Aveinu in Beit El.
No more burnings, pogroms, murders on foreign soil.

I'd love to be a settler in Hevron, Zichron Yaakov, Ashkelon.
No more sojournings and runnings on and on.

I'd love to be a settler with Yosef, Menashe and Ephraim.
No more sojournings, no more chasings from here and there.

I'd love to be a settler in Yerushalayim, Schem, Petah Tikvah, Beersheva.
No more sojournings, no more sweeping us away.

I'd love to be a settler in my homeland
together with our sisters and our brothers.
together with The Fathers and The Mothers.
I'd love to settle the land where I belong.

I'd love to be a settler high on the hills of Shiloh, Gamla, Kiryat Arba,
deep in Jewish history at Itamar and Elazar,
together with those who cleared the swamps in Degania and the Galillee.
No more sojournings from where they want us gone.

I'd love to be a settler on the plains of Susiya, Psipora, Herzeliya,
deep in Torah at Tzefat, where our medieval scholars learned
and study their holy books.
No more sojournings, torture, from where they swiped us out.

I'd love to be a settler and follow our true fate,
resettle where invaders ruined, rebuild our ancient streets,
revive what was, create what should have been.

It's time to be a settler, throw away the yellow stars.
It's time to resettle our homeland, continue our ancient path.
It's time to be a settler and wave the Magen David:
affirm our past, reclaim our future.
It's time to be a settler, to be at home in the promised land we adore.
It's time to be a settler and proclaim a promised love.
It's time to resettle Eretz Yisrael
and fulfill the Torah's tale
It's time to be a settler in Eretz Yisrael,
stop sojouning her and there,
erase the centuries of despair.
It's time to be a settler in Eretz Yisrael
and fulfill the Torah's tale.
It's time to be together with our sisters and our brothers
in the land of the Fathers and The Mothers.
It's time. It's time. It's time to be together in our ancient settlement,
our country, sacred state, our own land,
the promised homeland.
It's time. It's time. It's time we are all settlers and come home....