Labi Siffre - Into The Light

Back to the Road Map ?

The Roadmap for Peace (the basis for a two state solution to the Isreali / Palestinian conflict) states that:

Palestinian "incitement must cease immediately and the Palestinian Authority will engage in genuine prevention of terror and violence".

                          but

the Israeli Cabinet Statement on the Road Map - (may  25th '03) states that:

"As in the other mutual frameworks, the Roadmap will not state that Israel must cease violence and incitement against the Palestinians".

In other words, you must stop hitting me, but I can keep on hitting you. Clearly the reaction of an Israeli administration enthusiastic for an even-handed & peaceful resolution to the conflict.

Please note: "... the other mutual frameworks ..." and ask yourself, how long has that arrangement been going on?

^{(Previously posted 05/13/2004)}

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Not much left of Palestine

Not much room for a two state solution

 

The Classic West Bank Plan

Within 20 years will an SOS
From illegal Israeli WestBank settlers

Be the contemporary Israeli take
On the invasion of the Sudetenland
In 1938

While Western States watch and call
On Palestinians to exercise
Restraint

_{The Invasion of the Sudetenland}

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The bottom line

The number of rockets fired? No

It’s the number of deaths inflicted

In this, Israel is streaks ahead

source

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Alright mate?

As this green and pleasant land balms under a soft sky
Bandits (now pirates) in respectable suits brutalize sympathy
With easy smiles; our allies? The enemy of our enemy?

But our friend is painting our shoes with shit
And smiling as he does it; our shame and compassion
For his historic loss is meant to guarantee our silence

At what cost? Our good name? Do we have that?
But wait, remember their position in hostile terrain
Madmen surrounded by madmen

Stabbing each other with shards of God.
On the other hand their reprisals policy of a thousand
For less than ten is uncomfortably reminiscent

Plus their way of land appropriation: Bantustans
For the natives kept as pets who of course lack the ability
To appreciate civilized values ’n that, so

I took to piracy (yo ho ho) piracy and bang! bang!
She made me do it. She made me hit ‘er
With ‘er whining on and on

“Humanitarian Aid, Humanitarian Aid, Humanitarian
Bloody Aid!”
She did my ’ead in. Couldn’t stand it. So I boarded ’er
And shut ’er up!

I ’ad to; she provoked me.
You’re a man. You understand.
You’da done the same

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For The Record

^{(28 Jan 2006)}

In the middle east for years there’s been
From israel and the USA no “Peace
Process”
Instead there’s been a "Palestinians
Must capitulate
Process"
Sharon and Bush being never allied
To peace but tied to nullification
Through the emasculation
Of the stateless
Palestinian
Nation
By means of “the occupation” - by increasing West Bank
Illegal settlement building operations - by an internationally
Condemned illegal "Berlin Wall" - by installing
Palestinian Bantustans - by ignoring UN resolution
242 - by keeping Palestinians short of water and
Cash
The intention is to render Palestinian parents
Sons and daughters impotent of action
Barren of hope, irrelevant
Helpless - bound with
Israeli rope
Consider
Against fighter planes and missiles fired at market stalls
And civilians old and young- against tanks and bull
Dozers demolishing palestinian homes - against
An occupation by a nation that rejects “the
Roadmap” and insists they have the right to
Violence - and to incite violence - but
Insists Palestinians do not have
Those rights *
Against all this perhaps
The Palestinians have
At least the right
To fight

* "As in the other mutual frameworks, the Roadmap will not state that Israel must cease violence and incitement against the Palestinians". . . para 1 of the Israeli Cabinet Statement on the Road Map - (may 25th '03) . . . from  "Back To The Roadmap"  (posted May 13th 2004)

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What Violence Is

If you build your cities on my land
That is an act of violence

If you bar my family from return
But welcome yours with open arms
From wherever they were born, that
Is an act of violence

If you copyright the sinews, cells, the bones
The blood, the atoms of my body, that
Is an act of violence

If you copyright the food we’ve grown
For thousands of years of sweat and learning
Struggle and scrape, that
Is an act of violence

If you blame the raped
Say the fault is their's
That is an act of violence

If you condemn with God
With no evidence of
That is an act of violence

If you kill a child with a machete slash
Another with a blow from the butt of your gun
Then (your pockets bursting with grain)
You leave a third to starve to death
Which of these is not violence?

If you kill the river that feeds my land
My children's future history
That is an act of violence

If “innocent civilians” you call yourselves
Then vote democratic and free for any
Of these, that vote is an act of violence

To stop the war theism bequeaths and gives
To stop the war that greed loves and lives
To stop the testosterone initiative
To stop the killing of innocent kids
First, stop the denial of what violence is
Stop the denial of what violence is

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