calming the territory

Q.
how will Israel
“calm the territory?”

A.
with imprisonment &
torture behind the walls,
like they killed Arafat Jaradat.

and we can watch the soldiers get up in the
face of the young boys throwing
rocks,
as if these rocks would penetrate their
flak vests, as if these rocks wouldn’t
bounce off their tanks
as they plow over the remaining Palestinian
homes, to make way for more
illegal settlements
being built relentlessly by those
who long for the day that every last
Palestinian has left the West Bank & Gaza forever,
or died at the end of the Israeli soldier’s
barrel.

watch the american media portray every rock
thrown buy a Palestinian,
as if it wasn’t provoked by the
overwhelming militarized hyperpower that is
the Israeli government’s
war machine,
as if this little brother of america
had anything at all to fear,
with its stockpile of nukes,
waiting with a finger on the trigger
to unleash a firestorm on
Iran,
using the new “tension” in the West Bank as an
excuse.

the coming nuclear destruction,
the knocking of that first domino down,
to set the whole region ablaze,
this is the way that Israel will
calm the territory &
this is the way that president hope & change
will bend over the table
so that maniacal maniacal Netanyahu
can enlist the american support
to fight yet another war that we need not
fight, to destroy another land that we need not
destroy, to shake out those last coins from
our coffer at home,
so as to make the whole empire flat broke &
pave the way for China to
pick us up when we fall.