The Palestinian Problem, 2023 (revised from The Palestinian Question, 2014) - a poem by a female Faust

 

The Palestinian Problem

Or, even as Gaza is being bombed again, like some Polish ghetto

to, when and no matter how frightening,

abandon that civilized ruth --

(useful obviously not whatsoever)

and see their Solution in all of its truth;

to see in all the reporting how they invent,

slightly rephrased the same and I quote

Problem end quote ever brought;

to it all the World taught responses, wrong, right;

now tricked and now treated this manufactured consent

will rest assured soon again have this horror be wrought;

observe before you react.

sometimes you will be called

(coarse, too biased, or slight)

but stand up and witness, think, plan, and act

tell what you know

teach how to speak truth —  not to fight —

how by paying closest attention —

how by citing your sources —

how it is Truth may be made to come into the light:

the overweening pride, the sheer vengeance, the power

of a people let it please not repent me are mine

of Zion, a cancerous ill:

the horror

of a father's cries in Palestine

if his child

 this final

Solution

will kill.

by a female Faust; 

written 08/2014 revised 12/23