<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Occupied Palestine | فلسطين]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[occupiedpalestine]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/author/hajarhajar/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[The Eyes of Gaza | A&nbsp;Poem]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><strong>By Heathcote Williams </strong></p>
<p>Ariel Sharon&#8217;s<br />
Body&#8217;s been in a coma<br />
Lasting for five years.</p>
<p>Hell’s gates are narrow.<br />
Until he can fit through them,<br />
He must wait his turn.</p>
<p>Here are some haiku<br />
For an old war criminal<br />
With no IQ left.</p>
<p>If they’re read loudly,<br />
At a million decibels,<br />
He may register</p>
<p>The hatred that all<br />
Killers attract – however<br />
Right they think they’ve been.</p>
<p>The sonic blast could<br />
Open hell so his huge corpse<br />
May squeeze through at last.</p>
<p>The Palestinians<br />
Killed by Ariel Sharon<br />
In the Sabra camp</p>
<p>And in Shatila,<br />
While he floodlit their dwellings,<br />
Could watch him shoved in.</p>
<p>Two thousand could watch,<br />
With those killed in Quibiya –<br />
Forty-eight mowed down</p>
<p>By Sharon’s death squads –<br />
They could peer from a distance<br />
To see his trapped soul,</p>
<p>Squirming and heaving,<br />
Snarled up in tubes. Then others,<br />
Who lived in Gaza</p>
<p>And had their houses<br />
Knocked down by him, burying<br />
Them alive, could watch.</p>
<p>His ‘Operation<br />
Peace In Galilee’ would kill<br />
Eighteen thousand more.</p>
<p>They too might be drawn<br />
To study their tormentor’s<br />
Final solution:</p>
<p>He breathes without help,<br />
But otherwise it’s clear that<br />
There is no one there.</p>
<p>There has to be a price<br />
When you’ve turned someone into<br />
No-one so often.</p>
<p>Like the wall he built<br />
To divide a Semitic<br />
People – he’s cut off.</p>
<p>Like the olive trees<br />
On others’ land he uprooted,<br />
He is now barren –</p>
<p>He can’t produce fruit.<br />
After years without listening,<br />
He no longer speaks.</p>
<p>He ordered triggers<br />
To be pulled in targeted<br />
Assassinations</p>
<p>In the Gaza Strip.<br />
Now he’s unable to move<br />
A single digit.</p>
<p>Having caged people<br />
In Gaza’s ghetto, he lies<br />
In a living tomb.</p>
<p><em>&#8211; Heathcote Williams is an English poet, actor and award-winning playwright. He contributed this poem to PalestineChronicle.com.</em></p>
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<p><a href="http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=16808">Source</a></p>
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