Palestinian Crystal in Israel’s Night

By Genevieve Cora Fraser

March 1, 2004

A fractured tale

A Grimm foretelling

Countless crystal nights

Retold as Israeli bulldozers

Churn destruction unsettling

Palestinian refugee homes

German and Jew

Were forbidden to marry

Now Jew and Palestinian

Can’t wed so many blueprints

Sharon relies on to repeat

Hitler’s dread

Shops are smashed

Window’s broken

Just like they were before

In the sweaty mold

Of ignominious moments

Israeli strategies unfold

So clever to attack a mosque

With crowds of worshippers

Gathered as bullets fly

The old men clutch

And women clasp

Loved ones close in fear

IDF malevolent gods swoop

Down from skies and shell

As tanks reign on sacred sites

Of an ancient people stripped of rights

A gated community locked up tight

To suffer Israel’s tyranny

Towers loom

Dread and gloom grow

As the wall stretches

Venomously round village

And farm, pasture and stream

The noose pulls ever tighter

Enraged, entrapped

Palestine resistance

Is met by IDF assault

As troops burst into banks

Not safe from Zionist

Thieving marauders

Extermination is too harsh

A word though the fact

Grows ever plainer

As spring draws near

It’s time to sweep

Once more the Ethnics

Cleaner