Occupation Sticker Albums

For Palestinian and Iraqi Dead

By Genevieve Cora Fraser

April 18, 2004

The coin of hate

Has two sides

Israel

America

Have morphed into one

Obscene occupation

Falluja, Ramadi, Baquba

Rafah, Jenin, Nablus

Snipers shoot from on high

As demigods

Into their prey

Through blood splattered windshields

Ambulance driver

Dead eyes

Stare

At silhouetted troops

Against a steel grey sky

Pictures of dead martyrs

Stick

Onto album

Scenes of the blood soaked

Intifada

Heralding resistance

To an Arab world’s

Children

Adrift on the Dead Sea

Scrolls of images

Shot

Decapitated, amputated, eviscerated

Grandfathers stripped

Naked with humiliation gunned
Fathers butchered along dusty roads

Mothers crushed babes in arms

Naked child detainees

Savaged

By the sweaty hands

Of trigger happy

Occupation overwhelming force

Brimming with hate

See Al-Aqsa mosque

Picture

A sacred site

A masked fighter holds a gun

Battle with an Apache helicopter

Half a shekel

Buys one album

One coin buys two

Palestine and Iraq

A new testament

To an old struggle

Small streams and springs

Feed the river to the sea

Of bloody revenge

The poor slaughtered

By cash cowed

Imperialism

Bedded down with corporate greed

NOTE:  “Intifada Sticker Albums” are now a popular item among Palestinian children who collect scenes of the intifada the way western children collect sports and Hollywood star photo cards.  The albums are viewed as a matter of pride in support of resistance to Israel’s brutal occupation.