If I forget Thee, Jerusalem and The God of Urushalim both convey a message of the importance of Jerusalem. From the poems, you can understand the religious and cultural importance to both Palestinians and Israelis. Both poems have the same message, but the difference is the perspectives of the authors. One is written from an Arab perspective while the other is written from a Jewish perspective. Jerusalem will be in both their hearts forever, because they cannot forget Jerusalem without forgetting their culture, religion and self. The poems are very similar, both using blood as imagery, but the author of The God of Urushalim makes the poem more personal to the situation by referring to Monsters and Brothers. This idea is that the enemy is a monster and the brothers must unite to remember Jerusalem.
