Poetry: Zionists and Hamas (Satis Shroff)

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1. THE BIBLE A MELODRAMA? (Satis Shroff)

The Bible has become a melodrama                                                                                                 

Netanjahu, a defaulter, due to his debt to Palestinians;

Now that David has taken the gun

To defend the country,

Who will play the harp?

Who will comfort Saul?                                                                  

Jerusalem has been long conquered.

Now the Jewish eyes are set upon Gaza,

And the West Bank.

And offshore assets with promises of oil.

Children are slain by the hundreds

By cruise missiles and artillery fire.

Children, women, old men die.

The Jews cite from antique scriptures,

Insisting their doings are just,

And they are the true believers.

The troubadour has borrowed Putin’s refrain:

‘To take Gaza, like Crimea,

Because it belongs to us.

Our birthright.’

But this Orpheus` voice                                                 

In drowned by the screams

 Of F-16s, shells, missiles;

Out to smash the Hamas underground hideouts.

Trees, shrubs, groves, stones,

Concrete blocks are blasted.

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2. Unholy Vows (Satis Shroff

Both Hamas and Zionists have vowed        

To destroy each other.

Both didn’t ask their people.

Airstrikes have killed thousands of Gazans.

The houses in Gaza have no bomb-shelters

There have nowhere to go.

The Hamas are beckoning -others to join

And make a bigger war out of it.

Is resistance, armed struggle, the only option?

The refrain of the Palestinians remain:

“We have nothing to lose,

Except an entire generation of children and mothers.

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3. Children Are the Hopes of a Country (Satis Shroff)

Stop killing the children and women.

In this butchery of genocide and murders

Propagandists have arrogantly made use of re-framing

To put the blame on the Hamas.

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Over 12,000 in 11 years Syria.

Another 3,700 in Yemen.

In Ukraine alone 520 children died in 21 months. 

In the last two years 16,000 Palestinians

Have been killed.

Two thirds of whom are women and children,

And more than 40,000 have been injured.

Clare Daly speaks of wholesale killing.

It is unmitigated genocide perpetrated

By the Israeli war machine backed by Biden.       

160 children slaughtered per day.