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The Shame of Gaza
by Richard Randolph

If the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust
saw their descendants treat an ethnic minority as second-class citizens,
what do you think they'd feel?
And if they saw them relegate these people
to poor ghettos, deprive them of basic rights,
and then systematically steal their lands,
what do you think they'd feel?
And if they heard them refuse to help these people
have a homeland of their own, claiming there’s no room,
while they live on lands taken from these very people

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Children of Gaza
by Ghairo Daniels

Black pupils of our e y e s
melting into every soldier booted
ears of mountain gazelle A L E R T
to Palestinian mole rats

Rats scatter into open s e w a g e s
our mountain hide-outs faraway
soldiers BANG on backdoors
pupils of our eyes dilate B A T T L E


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Recent Middle east Poems
Children of Gaza
by Ghairo Daniels

Black pupils of our e y e s
melting into every soldier booted
ears of mountain gazelle A L E R T
to Palestinian mole rats

Rats scatter into open s e w a g e s
our mountain hide-outs faraway
soldiers BANG on backdoors
pupils of our eyes dilate B A T T L E


......

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The Shame of Gaza
by Richard Randolph

If the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust
saw their descendants treat an ethnic minority as second-class citizens,
what do you think they'd feel?
And if they saw them relegate these people
to poor ghettos, deprive them of basic rights,
and then systematically steal their lands,
what do you think they'd feel?
And if they heard them refuse to help these people
have a homeland of their own, claiming there’s no room,
while they live on lands taken from these very people

......

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