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