THE AUSTRIANS AND THE GERMANS AND THE REST

There is no end to the long lines of occupied

Palestinians the Austrians and the Germans

and the rest are ready to send through the gates

of Death at Israel's hands to make amends

for the Jews they killed themselves; and

as then, so now: Those who die appear not

human to the Austrians and the Germans

and the rest, for the long lines of the victims

are mute to them, and have no faces, as

they go to their deaths to pay old debts

in blood with their blood; those never spilled

the blood the Austrians and the Germans

and the rest did, dying, so that the Austrians

and the Germans and the rest can say, from

one decade of occupation to the next and

the one after it and so forth: "We stand on

Israel's side!" Yes, you do - and still, be

honest, pull the triggers, as you did to the Jews.

23.04.2020