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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.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2013




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