The USA like the priests and Pharisees in Jesus’ day
Leads the civilized world
Condemning wars and warmongers
And injustices inconsistent with its interests
Especially atrocities visited upon children!
In Liberia and Sierra Leone
Where children were drugged and given guns
In Somalia, Rwanda, Nigeria, the DRC and Sudan
Where children were hauled from homes and schools
Girls violated and dragged into forests as wives
Thousands driven into refugee camps
Many dying of hunger and malnutrition
Diarrhoea and typhoid
Luckily, food and medicine were allowed into the refugee camps
But it is not so for the children of Palestine!
Whose fathers and all men
“Terrorists”
Are commonly killed
Or safe in jail!
Fighting for their land.
The children of Palestine die of hunger
They die of dehydration
They die in their bombed homes
And in schools and refugee centres
Because Israel blocks food aid trucks
And water tanks
From reaching them!
Lest the “terrorists”
May eat, or drink and live!
The children of Israel
Malnourished
Sick with diarrhoea and typhoid
Die in hospitals
Because trucks carrying medicine
Are blocked by Israel
Lest the “terrorists”
May also be treated and live!
The injured children of Palestine
Rushed to hospital by targeted ambulance drivers
Surviving special sniper shots in the streets
Or a hail of bombs on their homes and schools
Are blown-up and burnt-up in mangled shells
Hit by the highly trained Israeli Air Force.
When media,
Unfriendly to the “civilized world” reports,
Israel promises to investigate.
But must finish its latest stock of bombs!
The USA and Europe hail the suggested investigations!
Issue tough warnings to “terrorists” and their allies
“Israel must defend itself,” they say.
The children of Palestine are not given guns
By heavy-bearded verse-reciting men
But are often shaken
Seeing sophisticated guns
Aimed at them by highly-trained clean-shaven military officers
Blowing off fathers’ brains
As dazed children and mothers coil,
Covering their eyes!
From horrors civilized media prohibits children from watching!
Hundreds of the children of Palestine
In Gaza, East Jerusalem, the West Bank
Have one or no leg
Their bones shattered by Israeli drones
Supplied by the USA and Europe
The civilized world!
What will the orphaned and homeless children of Palestine
Whose all known relations, friends and neighbours
Are buried in the rubble in Gaza
Say about the civilized world?
What will the surviving children of Palestine
Whose playmates in Jenin, Nablus and Ramallah
Were hit running away from gunfire
What will they say about the civilized world?
That supplies Israel with bombs, fighter jets, tanks and drones
To wipe out Palestinian children, men and women!
And their homes!
And their playing fields!
And their schools!
And their hospitals!
And even their refugee camps!
And the “civilized world” history
That horrifies Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich?
