It is back
Instead of the white handkerchief of peace
It is WAR War War
“We have the power,” Zvika Fogel from the Jewish Power Party
told the world on the television
They are back
And it is in the open
Fogel is tired of being “too merciful”
Fogel is tired of the slow
…ritualistic slaughter of Palestinians
every 2 or 3 years
Fogel demands action
And now he has it, sitting alongside Netanyahu
For some he is the Minister of National Security
For the many a FASCIST TERRORIST
But Fogel is not an original
He is reading from an old playbook
Revising the vocabulary of hate
Out goes peace, love, justice, solidarity
In are the new and improved words
… cleansing, urgency and efficiency
Their children now no longer practise the goose step in their basements
It is out there
In the open
And so when i hear the talk of A FINAL SOLUTION, i cry
Just the other day in Nuremberg
Did we not say NEVER AGAIN?
But now?
… it is back and in the open
They do not care about the cries and tears of Palestinian mothers
This, Fogel said on UK’s Channel 4
They are turning their backs on history
Will the Palestinians become the victim of the victims?
..the poet asks
They are goose stepping
IN and AROUND the knesset
while their stormtroopers demand blood and the fall
of the Great Mosque of Al-Aqsa,
…symbol of Jerusalem in the heart of Palestine
Fascism is back
And in the open
We must be PARTISANS again
by:
Hassen Lorgat
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