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Israel Mops Up Remains of Palestine
By Genevieve Cora Fraser

 

 

Israel Mops Up Remains of Palestine

Messianic cleansing 
Maniacal frenzy 
Released by the sanctity 
Of their cause
Stoning Arabs
To death  
Backed by the IDF 
A forced racist exodus 
Zionist 
Promised 
Land secured  
Illegal outposts 
Illicit settlements 
The drummed up  
Hue and cry
Crafty  
Politicians 
Rush to Defend  
Howard, Hillary  
Lieberman 
Gore  
Liberal Democrats galore 
Never blink 
Never pause 
Uphold the injustice of their Cause 
As rocks whiz past 
Against the enslaved 
In Hebron in Bethlehem 
The IDF play 
Guns ablaze  
While shepherds 
Tend their sheep 
Spooked by sonic 
Booms on high 
Boxed in  
Torturers relax
Let loose in Gaza 
Zero in  
Inflict 
Thirst, Hunger, Poverty 
Suffering, Injury, Pain 
Kill, Kill, Kill 
Jet propelled 
Missiles lob break 
Neck fast retaliation 
On all who dare complain 
Erection Equals Election 
Sharon and Peres 
Know well 
(And Peretz can go to hell) 
Barriers long, short, fat and tall 
Bar Palestinian resistance 
Blockade 
Roads, shops, homes and farms 
Lives left 
To live 
In peace 
Denied 
Behind the Wall 
Sanctified 
By Justice for Jews-Only Law 
But the Pax Israeli 
Is a pox 
On both their houses 
As decades of hostilities attest
 Biblical heritage 
Bitterly disputed 
Manufactured 
Hatred unleashed 
The Occupiers 
Erect 
Steel mesh 
Cages  
Surround Palestinian homes 
Can’t you see, Mama 
The Zionist Vision 
Is Fulfilled 
Yes 
Cement walls 
Reach skyward 
North East 
South West 
It sprawls 
As electronic eyes 
Peer down 
The City of Abraham 
Father of the feud 
Is slashed in half 
By settlers 
Seeking all 
But 
Lurianic Cabbala  
Jewish mystics 
Agree the world 
Was created  
To Differentiate 
Between them and us 
G-d sees 
We are not stealing 
Land from the Arabs 
Merely sanctifying 
It for me


    By Genevieve Cora Fraser