We need peace in the Middle East
We need peace with an immediate ceasefire at least
We need peace from the aerial bombings at least
We need peace from the indiscriminate killings at least
We need peace from killing mostly civilians at least
We need peace from the chemical and nuclear weapons-and of course from the rockets at least
From the tanks, the infantry, and the white phosphorous at least
We need peace in the Middle East
We need peace in the Middle East
With no parents having to write names on wrists at least
With no babies’ arms sticking out of the rubble at least
With no schools or no cemeteries rent asunder at least
With no children martyred by bombs at least
With no mothers slain for no wrong at least
With no families slain in their houses at least
With no politicians baying for blood at least
With no demagogues waging war at least
With no right to defend yourself by bombing hospitals at least
With no State and Factional terrorism at least
With no policy to expel people into the desert at least
With no ethnic cleansing nor pogroms in the West Bank at least
We need peace in the Middle East
We need peace with no illegal settlements at least
We need peace with no illegal land grabbing at least
We need peace with no suicide terrorism at least
We need peace in the Middle East
We need peace with an end to the occupation at least
With no checkpoints, no barriers, no changing demographics at least
With no fake news, no fake stories, no wicked rumours at least
We need peace in the Middle East
We need peace in the Middle East
With no Zionist supremacy at least
With no Takfeeri arrogance at least
With no throwing people out of their ancestral homes in
Jerusalem at least
With no usurping someone else’s property at least
With no fuelling the hatred at least
With no side otherising, maligning, despising, dehumanising, at least
We need peace in the Middle East
We need peace in the Middle East
With no hostages stolen from their homes at least
With no child prisoners in cells for throwing stones at least
With no families robbed of their homes by settlers at least
With no villagers terrorised by settler militias at least
With no refugee camps but a return home at least
With no killer camps training for suicide at least
With no international law ignored by any country at least
With no race believing the other are barbarians at least
We need peace, in the Middle East
We need peace in the Middle East
With no government instructing us to stay neutral while it takes clear sides at least
With no journalists demanding us to condemn when the time suits them at least
With no ministers posturing and maligning lawful protest at least
With no football clubs banning supporters for scarves at least
With no workers losing jobs for chanting Free Free Palestine at least
With no governments schooling us about Armistice whilst opposing the ceasefire at least
With no leaders bathing in oil whilst families are bathing in blood at least
With no normalization during occupation at least
With no signing of Abraham accords whilst Kane slaughters Abel at least
With no double-standards from the rivers to the seas at least
We need peace in the Middle East
We need peace
By serving humanity rather than erroneous conspiracies at least
By ensuring Muslims, Jews, Christians, Atheists live at least
By reinstating a true country for Palestinians at least
By protecting Masjid al Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock at least
By protecting Al Khaleel Mosque in Hebron at least,
By enshrining that East Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine at least,
By Palestine and Israel living as neighbours at least
By the United States sowing seeds and not corruption in the earth at least
By the Western world sponsoring development and not war at least
By the Western world standing for normal people and not their preferred dictators at least
By the Western world relinquishing its superiority complex at least
By the Western world profitting from communities and not from weapons at least
By the Arab world uniting under the beauty of the Arabic word at least
By restoring rights and aid and trade for the region at least
By agreement in disagreement at least
By acknowledgements, recognition, restoration, and reconciliation at least
By moving for cooperation rather than domination at least
By spreading salaam and shalom and the True Word of God at least
We need peace in the Middle East
With prisoners released
With lifeblood increased
With embracing feasts
With slaying inner beasts
We march for peace.
We protest for peace.
We pray for peace.
We work for peace.
We need peace in the Middle East