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Haiku for Rantisi
By Alan D. Miller
Posted on April 18, 2004 at 12:21 AM

Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi, the head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, was killed today. A haiku in his memory, may it be erased.

doctor, pediatrician,
killer of children,
abdel aziz rantisi

Update: Oops! I was just alerted by David Bernstein of the Volokh Conspiracy that this isn't a haiku. (Haikus are seventeen syllables (5-7-5), not nineteen (7-5-7), as I had thought.)

One possibility is:

Killer of children.
Pediatrician of death.
Doctor Rantisi.

Professor Bernstein has suggested an alternate possibility, which better preserves the sense of the original:

Pediatrician.
Doctor. Killer of Children.
Abdel Rantisi.




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