Cycle Of Violence

It’s the age-old conflict, the territorial dispute

Endless accusations flying about who has wronged who

Desperate determination to show no sign of weakness

The leaders take action while their people pay the consequences

Abandoning diplomacy, those in power unwilling to yield

Playing stupid fucking politics that just get people killed

Deciding that all out aggression is the best way to defend

so the cycle of violence starts all over again

It’s a bloodbath in the west bank

There is no end in sight

Both sides are so consumed with avenging death

that there’s no respect for life

Israeli soldiers are gunning down Palestinians

Murdering children for throwing stones

While Hamas is recruiting children to become martyrs

and murder more Israelis as suicide bombers

But the biggest obscenity of all of this hateful hostility

has been reducing through action and rhetoric into a subhuman enemy

The dehumanization of one another

has been the justification for the horrific brutality

It’s a bloodbath in the Gaza strip

There is no end in sight

Both sides are so consumed with avenging death

that there’s no respect for life

How many more?

How long?

Who’s right?

Who’s wrong?

Are they really so bloodthirsty in their hatred for the enemy

that they’re willing to disregard their own peoples safety?

They make their own people targets with every act of aggression

All in the name of teaching the enemy a lesson

Innocent people imprisoned by the violence that the conflict creates

Warmongers and butchers deciding everyone’s fate

How will there ever be peace with such human rights abuses?

When you dehumanize humans then all humanity loses

It’s a bloodbath in Bethlehem

There is no end in sight

Both sides are so consumed with avenging death

that there’s no respect for life