by Hassen Lorgat
The Genocide is being televised
24 hours non-stop
But this is nothing new: It is a rerun
It all began with the Nakba of ‘48 which continued thereafter non-stop
The Genocide is being televised
The people cannot stay home
As Zionist bombs have left them for ruins
These bombs, courtesy of the love of Israel’s friend, the USA
And a hefty price
3bn dollar per annum US military aid package
That’s just over 130 bn dollars since the land was officially stolen some 75 years ago
Meanwhile millions of people in the USA are damn poor and without medical aid
(This will not be televised)
The Genocide is being televised
As the recently homeless and destitute, thirsty and hungry, queue
Waiting their turn for cooking oil, flour or death
Playing God Oct 2023 is the new video game of the Zionist youth in military fatigues who have lost count of their non-human kills
The Genocide is being televised
As we watch the news sipping coca cola, eating popcorn or a homemade pizza
Every few minutes a new dead body piles up
The Palestinians in Gaza have long been starved and denied water, dying..
way before the killer bomb comes to take their final breaths
The Genocide is being televised
No one is safe: children, women, old men and those who look like they are fighters
Over twenty thousand of those the doctors could count
And thousands undercounted lying beneath the rubble
The Genocide is being televised
As the exhausted corpse washers have no time to rest
But for many viewers have had enough
And have taken to the streets, shouting:
No es una guerra, es un genocidi
Israel barra barra… Falastin hurra hurra!
Basta, Enough,
End ethnic cleansing,
End the occupation, Liberty Now
The Genocide is being televised
Whilst the governments in Europe and the US of A
Continue their elite machinations
to ban Palestinians’ right to free speech, boycott and organise
As journalists and poets in Gaza, Lebanon remain the subjects of an IDF sniper’s bullet
or precision bombing… to stop them from bringing you the news
Their epitaphs read: Impunity, ethnic cleansing and genocide – a programme made possible by the government of the USA
The genocide is being televised
The revolution is in the streets and the people of the world have spoken
Those who speak in and to His Masters’ Voice… the BBC, NBC, Sky FOX, CNN, the New York Times, and others all lay naked
Everyone – worker and student and more – are reporters – honest witnesses
Exposing the lies and speaking truth to power.
The Genocide is being televised
We witness how those neutral on human rights, the United Kingdom and Germany
The authors of the Balfour Declaration and holocaust against Jews, gipsies, and other undesirables
Now join forces with that untouchable perpetrator to collectively punish a proud people
- Are Palestinians not deserving victims?
The genocide is being televised
We watch daily how the rest of the world’s Mis-leaders and the world’s bodies fail us
NATO, the EU, USA and the ICC and not forgetting the United Nations
All simply change the channels to Disney or mindless sports
Only to later abstain or vote against the calls for a Ceasefire
Your days are numbered
The excuse that you did not know will not count
Because the genocide is Live and we are recording it
The Genocide is being televised
Now the world knows
Is the tail wagging the dog?
Or are they singing the same tune?
It is clear that Sleepy Joe and the illegitimate Zionist state have eyes on Palestinian natural resources, the beautiful land and sea, gas, water and much more
(This is not being televised!)
The Genocide is being televised
and from under the rubble
…a young girl Leila twists and wiggles her way through
holding a flower and a rock
the people surround her, offering the little they have
whilst the buildings around them fall
she stands defiant
Inspiring movements
…demanding a new just world
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