- Before you
go,
- Have you
a minute to spare,
- To hear a
word on Palestine
- And perhaps
to help us right a wrong?
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- Ever since
the birth of Christ
- And later
with the coming of Mohammed,
- Christians,
Jews and Moslems, believers
- .....in one
God,
- Lived there
in peaceful harmony.
-
- For centuries
it was so,
- Until strangers
from abroad,
- Professing
one thing, but underneath,
- .....another,
- Began buying
up land and stirring up the
- .....people.
-
- Neighbors
became enemies
- And fought
against each other,
- The strangers,
once thought terror's victims,
- Became terror's
fierce practioners.
-
- Seeking peace
at all costs, including the
- .....cost
of justice,
- The blinded
world, in solemn council, split
- .....the
land in two,
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- Tossing to
one side
- The right
of self-determination.
-
- What followed
then perhaps you know.
- Seeking to
redress the wrong, our nearby
- .....neighbors
- Tried to
help us in our cause,
- And for reasons,
not in their control, did not
- .....succeed.
-
- Today, there
are a million of us,
- Some like
us, but many like my mother,
- Wasting their
lives in exiled misery
- Waiting to
go home.
-
- But even
now, to protect their gains ill-got,
- As if the
land was theirs and had the right,
- They're threatening
to disturb the Jordan's
- .....course
- And make
the desert bloom with warriors.
-
- And who's
to stop them?
- The world
seems not to care, or is blinded
- .....still.
- That's why
I'm glad you stopped
- And heard
the story.
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