Israel has the Power to Wipe Out Palestine

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"The IDF has the firepower

To wipe out an entire population

If we wanted," Benjamin Netanyahu

Former Israeli prime

Minister recently bragged

Before the 35^th Zionist

Congress in Jerusalem.

“We could wipe out

All of Gaza

But we are not doing this.”

Yet -

Big and brave and powerful

The US sponsored 36 billion

Dollar Israeli military

Amassed its massive

Strike force on the border of Gaza’s

Defenseless population

1.5 million Palestinians shoved

Into the tiny coastal region

Since Al Nakba in 1948

And the Six Day War

That has played out

In endless assaults

Over 39 years

One of their own has

Been taken – an Israeli

Soldier more

Precious than the lives

Of hundreds

Of Palestinian men

Women and children

Who have been wantonly

Killed without benefit of judge

Or jury since Israel’s truce

With Hamas which Hamas

Honored until the Gaza beach

Incident Never

True to their word

Israel continued to plunder

The land stealing water

And farmlands abducting

Children from the streets

To stock their prisons

Tortured and abused

10s of thousands

Of shells light up the skies

Day after day

Night after night

Starved inside

The open air prison

Israel has erected

To house the indigenous

People of the Holy Land

Bethlehem under siege

The birthplace

Of the Prince

Of Peace defiled

Locked in poverty

Unrelenting pain

Villages and towns

Incarcerated by concrete

Manned watch towers

Ready to swing

Into deadly action

Surveillance cameras

Record their every move

Why would a population

Resist such treatment

The Western Powers

Wonder I wonder why

Israel resists allowing

Food, medicine or money

Into the territories

Bombed a family outing

Turned a beach

Into a war zone

Hamas’ militant wing

Finally snapped

The other wing

Useless in flight

Drained of resources

Food, money, medicine

The population

Ready to snap

Back into an Intifada

Bones break as houses

Are crushed in upon

Hungry children

No longer cry

As sonic booms

F 16s light up the sky

Destined for death

By Israeli assault

Claiming rights

To what was never theirs

Uphold the right

Of the oppressor

To oppress

Kill all in sight

Is Israel’s prerogative

The “moral” state

Acting in self-defense

Against the defenseless

Bomb bridges

Transformers

All electricity

Water, sewer lines

Cut off from the world

And what is

Palestine’s crime?

Their Right to Resist

Their Right to Return

Their Right to Elect

Hamas if it pleases

Palestine is free

Free, free, free

To be Palestine

Until the last

Drop of their

Precious and ancient

Blood

Is spilt

By a misguided