It is called ‘Self-defense’?
In remembrance of the lives lost in the ongoing Palestinian struggle and in protest of the genocidal Israeli regime and its propaganda war machine:
Written by Mohammad Mustafa
God gave me rights to your home, to the souls of your children.
Angels handed me their graves told me to build their dreams beneath my feet
God told me to send them shooting stars; let Gazan skies weep
And rain martyrdom of numbers on TV screens
Piled in heaps of concrete ruins where they once dreamed.
Dreams too ambitious and bounded by body bags.
Dreams of becoming healers, protectors, educators-
-- Or terrorists
We would have allowed them to see those dreams into fruition
If only they weren’t pumped full of savage blood
What can be done? They would have grown up to be violent,
Heartless barbarians
They would have destroyed our homes and killed our children,
So we must destroy their homes,
And kill them as children
This is called self-defense.
We must protect our own from those violent, untamed-
Five-year-olds.
God told us to deceive the world; manufacture our victimhood,
Let’s sell our morality and buy some propaganda
We’ll exploit images of their dead children and glorify them as our own.
And we’ll publish prints of their decimated houses,
And declare they were once our homes.
Just like we stole their land before,
we will steal their struggle now.
We will imprison them and their minds.
And torture their wretched, uncivilized souls.
We will wear their faces as masks while we butcher them
And when history asks what happened?
We will cry out for our poor, bloodstained guns
And when they dare point the finger at us,
We will snap it in half and point it back at them
And with it, we will put a gun to their head
We will blow their brains out and show the guts of their inferior IQs-
God briefed me in the situation room
On military tactics and bombing campaigns
First, we will tell them to run, evacuate and leave your homes
And promise safe routes, we will give them til sunset,
Because we are God’s chosen people
Then, as they flee by foot or on horseback, we will bomb the victim out of them,
And ask the world to condemn their dead corpses
And ask the dying to use their final breaths to condemn themselves
Those barbaric, heartless terrorists.
Is this called ‘self-defense’?
