Israeli State Terrorism Goosesteps on Palestine

May 23, 2004

Oblivious to public opinion

Israel Defense Forces

Blamed the victims

For inciting their own

Destruction the advance

Guard of children who

Led thousands to protest

Demolition of their homes

Their lives their dreams

They were placed

In a giant flower cooler

A dark cavernous

Blood soaked crater

Of lost childhood

Wrapped in shrouds

Shielding the exit

Wounds from public

Gaze all in a dazed

Work for Israel’s

Greater security

Lost in the fog

Of endless war

Shrapnel spilled

In a bewildering

Array across the vast

Expanse between IDF

Waiting to proceed

And the raw carnage

Victory of retaliation

Men carried little boys

Guts spilling out

Onto the rubble wreckage

Of their worst nightmare

Come true buckets

Of water washed

The remains of ancient

Bloodlines off the tiles

Into the gutter

Gaza Strip is a quagmire

Proud Israel laments

A drain on public funds

Spent to annihilate

The riff-raff of Rafah

Struggling for freedom

The book of accounts

Tallied the toll

On the messianic

Pioneers vs. 1.3 million

Gaza Strip Terrorists

In waiting breeding

More to take their place

Therefore it is ordered

That all males 16 years

And older be gathered

Of Tel Sultan’s Al Amariya

School a mass round-up

Shoot-up as youths

Stepped onto the streets

School games

Include torture

By tank and bulldozer

Racing at them

Sniper fire tag

House to house

Searches gathered

Forth truants

As the Israeli

Military waits

Further orders

For execution

Israeli soldiers

Camouflaged

In Palestinian

Vehicles planted

Alibis and illusion

Along the way as IDF

Picked off the flower

Of Palestine’s youth

And their fathers

Brothers, uncles

Grandfathers

“Life equals death,

For all of us,” a doctor

Sighed equal blame

But unequal Force

As the mightiest military

In the Middle East

Blasts its way

Night and day

Carving out

Palestine

Into a Tomb