MONDAY
A Palestinian family is trying to live in their home.
They have a beautiful garden that they've tended for too many generations to count.
It feeds the family and their neighbors.
Israeli settlers moved in next door after forcibly removing the previous Palestinian family from their home.
The settler family is not neighborly.
TUESDAY
The settler family throws their garbage into the Palestinian family's yard.
They hurl collected animal and human feces at the family members as they try to clean up the garbage just dumped on their garden.
The Palestinian family's teenage daughter is leered at, poked at, menaced with leud comments and physical threats of sexual violence by the sons as well as their father.
The settler boys physically block the Palestinian daughter with their exposed dicks in their hands as she tries to walk to school. She doesn't want them to see how terrified she is, but her body betrays her.
She involuntarily loses bladder control, which excites the settler boys even further.
They're "winning."
The father of the Palestinian girl tries to speak to the settler family about the incidents.
The Palestinian father is beaten until he is unconscious.
The settlers piss on him while he's unconscious.
They piss in his mouth, on his clothes, in his eyes.
They laugh uncontrollably.
They're "winning."
WEDNESDAY
The father is trying to recover from the beating.
He misses a day of work because his eyes are swollen shut.
The mother left for work at 4am.
They can't afford for both parents to lose a day's pay.
The daughter stays home from school to care for him.
Her brother leaves for school.
The brother is intercepted on his way to school by the settler boys and is beaten until unconscious.
They repeat the treatment they gave his father.
When the brother comes to, he limps home to find his sister lying in the yard, stripped, dirty, and bloody.
The settler father is leering at him from the neighboring yard and making exaggerated thrusting motions while pointing at his sister.
"My sons will be next when they come back from school! Your whore sister was a nice ride for a sand n*gger! I'll try your whore mother next!"
The Palestinian son loses control of his emotions and picks up a rock. He throws it at the settler.
It misses him.
The settler looks like he's won the lottery and calmly shows his teeth in a prescient cheshire-cat smile.
They're "winning."
THURSDAY
The Palestinian son is arrested as a terrorist and imprisoned.
The family is on a watchlist now, and they are fair game.
Soon, another settler family will forcibly remove this Palestinian family from their ancestral home.
After all, you can't have terrorists living next door endangering the safety and welfare of decent law-abiding Israeli citizens.
it's not about religion
it's about race
it's about domination
it's about a colonising force
that's been run like
Lord of the Flies
if you give a citizen carte blanche to
kill rape malign abuse dehumanize
an entire indigenous population
then why, why would they stop?
They've tasted blood
they want complete erasure
so they can
justify their lies
their story
their excuse
justify their murder
their rape
their lawlessness
justify their actions
when no justification on this earth exists
this is not Judaism
this is racism
you feel justified
comfortable, even
saying "kill them all
erase them all"
you’re proud
pride built on murder
on genocide
on erasure
rewriting history
to justify your fictional
squatting rights
no matter how many stories you tell
how many lies you weave
how many excuses you charm
how many times you pull your white privilege victim card
out of your clean pocket
free of rubble
of tears
of blood
clean clothes clean hands
yet so deeply soiled
you can't wash away what you've done
not ever
you can't stop hearing your government's
permissive edict in your head (and you don't want to):
kill them erase them defile them
you have the right
you have our blessings
[do it do it now do it before the truth
shows its ugly face
and the reality of what you've done
destroys what sliver of conscience
you may have left but cannot find
there's no coming back from this]
you are chosen
you do no wrong
kill kill kill
god commands it god demands it
just do it
it's your birthright
kill
kill them all
so you can finish rewriting history
Jabril and Joseph
tend their rooftop gardens
drenched in the Haifa sun
tomatoes thyme fig and lime
a friendly competition
lots of joking and boasting
before sitting down to share tea
and conversation
Jabril is Christian
Joseph is Jewish
Both speak Arabic
Both are Palestinian
Same culture
Same origin
Same blood
Same skin
This was before the seed of Zionism
was planted
Before the great lie
orchestrated by
white people
from Europe
America
South Africa
The Indigenous population
was a problem to be solved
to be emptied like so much trash
They're only savages, after all
no one will even notice
Then you can get busy erasing their history
and writing a new one just for you
No one who matters will notice
No one
who matters
will care