Lines

Lines

It is hard not to feel hopeless. Sometimes I don’t think anything is going to stop this killing machine. There is no line that hasn’t been crossed. Sometimes I don’t think there is anything that will make people speak up, say no or care. As for our government and Western Media, the blood on their hands is heart breaking.

Lines

that maybe,

once upon a time

couldn’t be crossed.

Murdering journalists.

Targeting aid workers.

Dropping bombs on UN workers.

Bombing hospitals,

schools,

churches,

mosques,

and refugee camps.

Targeting the Red Cross.

Attacking UN Peacekeepers.

Kidnapping doctors.

Collective Punishment

Using starvation as a tool of war.

Discussing,

in the Knesset.

if rape of prisoners

is legitimate

and saying out loud,

‘everything is legitimate’.

Lines, lines, lines

that if they were to be crossed,

by a different state,

would result in

endless ribbons on lapels

and global condemnation.

Lines, lines, lines

erasing humanity.