Today I hear a jarring circumlocution
‘One solution, intifada revolution’
The first Intifada lasted from ’87 to ‘93
A perilous time to be an Israeli
160 Israelis were killed, 3,100 wounded
after all those attacked were computed
The Second Intifada stretched from 2000 to 2005
a time when 1,100 Israelis lost their lives…
… not to mention thousands disabled
~ and all the widowed wives
So, make no mistake about it:
Intifada revolution means murdering and maiming Jews
something proponents eagerly choose
Categories:
intifada, evil, hate, islamic, jewish,
Form: Couplet
They shout ‘Not in my name’
as if for Israel’s self-defense
they were to blame
They scream ‘Globalize the Intifada’
as if their voices ever mattered
They chant ‘Palestine will be ‘free’
from the River to the Sea
without a clue as to what that means
They denounce the IDF from their comfortable American homes
allege Al-Jazeera-reported ‘Israeli atrocities’ in vulgar poems
They are ‘Peace Now,’ ‘J Street,’ ‘progressive’ Jews ~
whom the Mullahs aim to slaughter when they so choose
Categories:
intifada, america, hate, jewish, satire,
Form: Couplet
(“Creation Myth Merit Badge”, 2016, original oil)
Global Intifada
Everywhere you look today the world is burning
Or is a dried out husk waiting to spark.
It’s a self proclaimed global intifada after all,
Sweeping like a plague across hearts and minds.
But what exactly is this resistance all about anyway?
Inquiring minds want to know.
In a nutshell; change, as the world continues,
As it always has, to spin beyond our control.
The irony being those calling for a revolution
Really just want the world to stop being out of their control.
Stop and go back on track
To some idealized path, to some idealized goal.
While meanwhile the world just continues
To turn and burn in endless creative destruction.
Each of us a bit of tinder to fuel the fires
To temper the steel with which to forge our future.
(6/12/25)
Categories:
intifada, conflict, creation, culture, society,
Form: Narrative
(“Glimpsing Hokusai”, 2017, original encaustic)
Intifada aka “Kill the Jews!”
While we were sleeping content in our lives
Something dark and ugly was growing inside
Spreading across the lawns, and fibers of the net
An intifada of hate as old as time,
For those People of the Book who hold the power
Maybe we fear, maybe we envy.
“Kill the Jews” was once tolerated,
Then condemned in shame,
And now pridefully in distain proclaimed.
“Kill the Jews” may sound hip and cool
Until you realize where this led last time,
And how a Jew is no different from you.
Everyone now who’s saying it,
Gleeful as you rise up to burn again,
What it’s taken so long to build,
Consume with a hate as old as time.
But how will you feel in the morning
When the next wave comes for you…
(11/25/24)
Categories:
intifada, fear, hate, youth,
Form: Narrative
When will they stop
the calls for Jihad and Intifada Revolution
the calls for Death to Israel, Death to the Jews
the calls for ‘Palestine’ from the River to the Sea
They will stop when all world Jewry moves to Israel
when we apply our democratic solution to their terror revolution
when we put the butchers of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis to rest
when Israel's flag of freedom waves boldly from the River to the Sea
Categories:
intifada, conflict, freedom, future, horror,
Form: Free verse
The world is wrong
'We' are right
Bang go our drums
day and night:
'Intifada Revolution
Free Palestine solution'...
We won’t debate
facts or history
We cover our faces
Long live mystery
We’re always peaceful
never violent
If you don’t shut-up
We'll render you silent...
'Cos we change minds
We change hearts:
Bleeding hearts ~
to BAN US, start
Categories:
intifada, change, education, heart, irony,
Form: Rhyme
Shouts of ‘Only one solution –
an Intifada Revolution’
at protests described as ‘peaceful’
by pundits expert at circumlocution
130 suicide bombings; countless stabbings and shootings*
Intifadas are as ‘peaceful’ as is Russia under Putin
Intifada leaders’ ‘solution’ for the Jewish state
~ every Jew slaughtered in an orgy of hate
________________________________________________
*These figures are culled from the last Arab intifada against
the Jews in Israel, 2001 - 2005.
Categories:
intifada, hate, jewish, murder, peace,
Form: Couplet
I hear the boots of Krystallnacht
marching in our streets
Heil, Hitler… Heil, Sinwar…
Heil, Hitler… Heil, Sinwar…
I hear the glass of Krystallnacht
clinking 'neath their cleats
Dirty Jews… Jew pigs
Free Palestine… Intifada lives
I see 'our leaders’ cower
turning backsides to the fray
like Harvard's President, Claudine Gay
POTUS Biden asked a question, walks away
I see my fellow Jews betray our cause
shouting, 'Intifada Revolution'... 'No More Genocide'...
seeming not to understand
disunited, we perish by suicide...
Have we forgotten, do we not recall
His covenantal promise we'd never fall
One place to turn, one Name to call
~ God of Israel, save us all
Categories:
intifada, cry, god, history, jewish,
Form: Rhyme
Random Intifada
the enemy can be anyone walking
the streets. The Israelis are nervous
power alone cannot stop this there is
two Israel one for the European elite
and one for the poorer class who feel
betrayed by their leaders and fanatical
settlers, low wages hovering just about
poverty, alas we do not hear from them
and their isolation in a sea of hatred
and they have nowhere to go should hell
break lose other trying to be friends or
find an adaptation with the Palestinians.
Categories:
intifada, abuse, age, angst,
Form: Blank verse
The Fight for Freedom
Another art exhibition, paintings of naïve art decorated on ancient doors
and window shutters, most of them about harvesting of olive and carobs.
And of course there were mules and donkeys without the beasts of burden
the Iberian landscape could not contained its charm of slow but steady
labour. Fences made by stones, from unwilling earth, this patch of land
is mine given to me by my father. And so are the trees, all of them; land
was important back then for families’ survival and cultural inheritance.
And they are lucky, the Portuguese, no horde of war injured people will
descend upon them and declare a new Hebrew republic,
Yet, once upon a time Portugal was a province under Imperial Rome till
it declared independence, by force. If you do not fight for your freedom
you will not get it. So what is left for the Palestinians to do….Intifada?
Categories:
intifada, political, sad, satire, sorry,
Form: Blank verse