RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GLOBAL POLITICS
Genocide in Gaza
The Holocaust
A policy of extermination
The buffalo massacre
Forced relocation
The slave trade
The Trail of Tears
Milosevic and the Serbs
There are many kinds of genocide
From methodical mass murder
To the evacuation of a people from
Their homelands under threat of harm
When we think of genocide
We think of the Nazi’s and the Jews
We think of the American Indians
We think of the Armenians in Turkey
We think of the aborigines in Australia
Maybe we think of South African apartheid
We never think of Israel and Palestine
We rarely think of Gaza
The forced relocation of Palestinian
Families women and children
Perhaps we should
If there is no right to fight back
Against genocide
Then there are no rights
The irony is just too rich
Israel
Palestine
Genocide
War Crimes
Are our memories so short?
Less than a century later
The victim becomes the perpetrator