The Moral Low Ground

They’ve been starving Palestinians,

Shooting kids for fun,

With churches, homes, and hospitals

Under Israel’s gun.

It’s the logical conclusion

Of what they started long ago.

Europeans want their homeland,

So the residents have to go.

We’ve claimed the moral low ground

By joining Israel’s war.

We were already giving

Everything they asked us for.

Who knows what these genociders

Might still have in store?

We’ve claimed the moral low ground

By joining Israel’s war.

They say they’re fighting “terrorists.”

It’s enough to make you cry.

To spot this case of projection

You hardly have to try.

Perhaps you’ve heard of Deir Yassin,

The Nakba’s biggest score.

But hidden from our public,

There were many, many more.

We’ve claimed the moral low ground

By joining Israel’s war.

We were already giving

Everything they asked us for.

Who knows what these genociders

Might still have in store?

We’ve claimed the moral low ground

By joining Israel’s war.

What’s really outright slaughter,

They like to call a “war.”

Founded upon their treachery,

We’ve seen it all before.

Those residents of Gaza

Are mostly refugees

From the larger land of “Israel”

That the Europeans seized.

We’ve claimed the moral low ground

By joining Israel’s war.

We were already giving

Everything they asked us for.

Who knows what these genociders

Might still have in store?

We’ve claimed the moral low ground

By joining Israel’s war.

David Martin

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