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Tema Okun’s new poem examines how the Israeli military uses Palestinians for “experimenting the latest weaponry of war on fenced in old men, pregnant women, toddlers.”

Jewish youth hold Israeli flags at the beginning of a rally march in the West Bank settlement of Itamar, near Nablus September 20, 2011. (Photo: REUTERS/Nir Elias)

Tema Okun shares a poem reflecting on her taxi ride leaving the Jewish Voice for Peace conference in Chicago where her Jewish Israeli taxi driver shouted at her that she is not a Jew.