In his poem, “God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children,”Yehuda Amichai is vividly illustrates god’s treatment towards, kindergartners, school children, and adults. The scale goes from innocent to corrupt, god does not pity adults for the immorality they bring into the world and how they feed the innocent biased knowledge of their own beliefs. They teach them who to hate, the kindergartners being forced to believe it without reason. The Volta occurs after his dark illustration in the second stanza, giving an alternative scenario to living a life of love could make god have pity on you. His connection to the Israeli-Palestine Conflict is clear through this poem; he believes people are feeding the future generations lies about their “enemies,” creating conflict that will exist for no known reason. His belief is that love is the only way to overcome this problem; once you love each other and are able to put differences past each other, god will have pity and you will be spared from experiencing the undesirable life that he depicts.
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I agree with your observation that love is the only way to overcome the problem of having nonsense conflict. While there was a reason for this conflict centuries ago, continuing this conflict only creates hate and destruction which could be easily avoidable. God pities the young children because they maintain their innocence. If adults have not taken the time to love and avoid conflict, they will be abandoned by god.