All lives matter, even those of tiny Gaza Strip
It’s wrong to come to judgement solely based on cable news
I know Hamas’s provocations: demonstrators egged to riot,
Human waves of desperate Gazans trying to penetrate the border
Even so, it baffles me why lethal force was necessary
Several dozen Gazans dead and hundreds more were wounded
It happened there just yesterday
Jerusalem, the sacred city of the Jewish faith
For multiple millennia
The capital of Israel, a phoenix nation now reborn
The seat of Israel’s Knesset, i.e. Parliament
Against advice political, Pres. Trump decreed Jerusalem
To be officially the site where we would move our embassy
It happened there just yesterday
Jerusalem, is sacred, also, to the Christians, not just Jews
And to the Muslims equally, all Abrahamic faiths
The Arab Palestinians claim Israel to be their home
Jerusalem their capital. They left in forty eight
Some on their own and some forced out, eternal refugees
They demonstrated desperately against the U.S. move
It happened there just yesterday
All efforts in the past have failed, to draft a peace accord
That Israel and Palestine could both agree was just
The Trump approach: full speed ahead, let chips fall where they may
He has a plan, not yet revealed , for peace achievable
The message: Palestinians, it won’t get any better
So, while you can; this is your chance,
It’s now or likely never
5/15/18
