Feeding Gaza to the Sea

A Youth Response to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

16 June 2010 No Comments

By A. Y. May

They’ve sipped on all the fine Galilee wine

And feasted on Palestine’s finest veal

And now that they’ve finally gobbled it up all – whole

They decided to feed Gaza to the sea

PLO now liberates from high mantles and hotel suites

PLO now dresses in Italian suits and drives around in limousines

PLO now plays the po-po

Coz the PLO ain’t got no more flow

Shababs are turning to black faces

Shababs are carrying klashnikovs

Ikhwat are joining the Islamic equation

Ikhwat are obliterating their curves in black robes

Shabab and Ikhwat are living their own Palestinian dream

And it is not of blossoming flowers, post-modernist revolution, and socialist seeds

Shabab and Ikhwat are throwing body parts at metallic men

Shabab and Ikhwat are not digging the land with their own bear hands

Shabab and Ikhwat are not cooking clay with South African brothers

Shabab and Ikhwat are not drawing the Levantine earth in red white black and green

And I

I never dreamt of a Palestine wrapped in gold and green