A Poem On Zionist Callousness
By Hassen Lorgat
As the heavens open on the starving, homeless and wandering Palestinians —
as rains damaged the tent cities of Gaza in the coldest of winter —
many months after the Al-Aqsa Floods, falling on the makeshift tents,
over 70,000 such, stitched with human ingenuity and scarce tools —
The fugitives from international justice sit warmly and tweet away on X.
“Hamas doesn’t get to escape accountability every time it rains,”
their Foreign Ministry said,
as the cold and water killed the innocent.
Today the callousness ran deeper — trying to be smart,
their government tweeted on X:
“Contrary to popular belief, Israel does not control the weather.”
A hungry poet laying nearby — exhausted, hungry and wet —
she is too weak to wield the axe, and takes to pen this poem:
Contrary to popular belief, Israel is not the only democracy in the Middle East.
Contrary to popular belief, Israel does not have the most moral army in the world.
Contrary to popular belief, Israel says it is a nation, yet it does not have defined borders.
Contrary to popular belief, Israel does not know what a ceasefire means.
Contrary to popular belief, Israel is not a peace-loving nation but an addict to never-ending wars.
Consistent with popular belief — the voters said —
you controlled the US president and the war machine.
Consistent with popular belief, Israel is a genocidal state.
Contrary to popular belief, Israel does not control the weather.
But you bombed people’s homes, schools and hospitals,
pushed them off their land to live in tents.
You enabled the weather to kill them off.
Please help the people of Gaza — the chosen people — must live.
Contrary to popular belief, you can redeem yourself —
stop the killing: the babies, and their brothers and sisters, and their parents.
Join humans who work and pray for justice during all the seasons.
You are welcome — but you must first have your Nuremberg;
it lies at the doors of these tents.
Hassen Lorgat