You can never stop the wind

   that shakes the barley.


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If one looked horizontally at

a field of barley, it resembled

a standing army of the British

Empire, (metaphorically).


The invisible wind which had

the ability to taunt and tilt and

haunt, was in fact the I.R.A.


The analogy can be made of

the Israeli Defence Forces in

their effort to fight/find Hamas.


The aerial bombing of Gaza

was futile, because Hamas

are invisible just as the IRA.


Who would have thought

that a population similar to

Gaza collapsed and Empire.


Israel despite all their bombs

and planes and tanks and guns,

will be brought tio their knees.