Zealots

Watch for the day the river and sea shake hands
Wait for Fajr in the Al Aqsas of the world
Let the Azaan bring to life fields freed
Where tanks and jets were defeated by a people
Armed with keys, spoons and their hearts.

Watch for the day the children laugh
Wait for David to cast his stone
As the Lord chooses His own
And on the graves of the Angels
We will write "Never Again".

One of my earliest memories is of going to a protest during the Second Intifada. I couldn't believe my ears when my mother told me a war was going on for 50 years. It's been more than 20 years since then and not only has nothing changed, Israel elected a far-right nutcase who broke all conventions and peace efforts in his blind hatred of Palestinians - his biggest supporters antisemitic Evangelical Christians and the Sangh. He himself has pushed antisemitic nonsense in an attempt to appropriate the worst genocide in modern history for political hatred. If Jewish history is anything to go by, tyrants like him and his chelas will not prevail for long, and peace and harmony will one day be restored between Muslims and Jews and to a region so plagued by fighting. The Lord "chose his own" once, freeing Jerusalem from the Crusaders, and likewise united resistance will overcome racism and Islamophobia against the forces of colonialism and apartheid. There were Egyptians who fought and escaped with Moses after all.

Written to "Long Live Palestine 1&2" by Lowkey et al, "The Plagues" from the film Prince Of Egypt and "Talkin' Bout A Revolution" by Tracy Chapman.