Palestine Has No Partner in Peace as Israel Dumps Welfare off Its Back

By Genevieve Cora Fraser

June 23, 2004

In the search

For a durable peace

Palestine has no

Place to go

Except further

Inward squeezed

Ever further

By the belt

Tightened

Around its neck

The Apartheid

Wall of Hate

Shoring up

Palestine piece

By piece by Peace

We mean the piece

Where Israel never

Needs negotiate

Throw-away

Jews aplenty

Have been shipped

To Israeli shores

Binyamin’s

Brinkmanship

Dumps the Welfare

Of its people

Off the back

Of Israel’s

Economy

Lowers taxes

For the rich

Fewer benefits

For the poor

Working jobs

Once reserved

For Palestinian

Cheap labor

Now starved

And assaulted

Concentrated

In camps

Behind

Apartheid

Prison walls

Israel’s star

Is hitched

To Netanyahu’s

Private Enterprise

Engineered

By the IDF

Terror Machine

Instigating a steady

Supply of suicide

Martyrs stoking

Public fear

That supports

Zionist Hardliners

Preserving Peace

By killing their

Partner state

As Palestine

Is bulldozed

Into Israeli

Settlement

Dream homes

Palestinian

Criminals

All

Incarcerated

For a life

Time of hell

As American

Bought Power

Backed

By a Quartet

Of shameful

Acquiescence

Brings Israeli

Bootstraps

Ever higher

For leverage

To stomp

Ever stronger

On Arafat’s

Humbled head