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A few weeks back we posted about US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and how she quoted Israeli poet Ehud Manor’s “Ein Li Eretz Acheret” (I have no other country) during her impassioned speech following the deadly 6 January Capitol riots (m.facebook.com/177547502336396/posts/3628780400546405/). Now, read about how former Labor leader and current Chairman of the Executive of The Jewish Agency for Israel יצחק (בוז'י) הרצוג - Isaac Herzog consoled her with the words of the poem after the 2016 US elections, and how she has carried these powerful lyrics with her over the last four years: It was, Herzog told Pelosi, a song to soothe a crisis of faith in one’s country, whatever one’s political colors. The Israeli left used it to grieve the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995; the right used it to grieve the evacuation of settlers from the Gaza Strip a decade later.Pelosi held fast to the song, thanking Herzog for sharing it with her the next time they met when Pelosi led a congressional delegation to Israel in March 2018. She cited the song repeatedly in conversations and in closed caucus meetings during the leadup last year to Trump’s first impeachment. “She was very taken with it,” an aide told JTA.She mentioned it in a speech last year to J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group, a moment that might have been dismissed as scripted by one of her Jewish advisors.Except it wasn’t, made evident when she spoke in the House after the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot, urging Congress to seek the removal of Trump, whose lies about winning the 2020 election had incited the carnage.“Especially during this sad time, I recall the words of the great Israeli poet, Ehud Manor, and that’s what he said when he said, ‘I can’t keep silent in light of how my country has changed her face, won’t quit trying to remind her. In her ears, I’ll sing my cries until she opens her eyes,’” she said. ...

An Israeli leader consoled Nancy Pelosi in 2016 with a poem. It sustained her throughout the Trump presidency. - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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Nancy Pelosi turned to an Israeli poem for solace as she navigated two impeachments.

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