A little more than a year ago
Bennet and Lapid established
The “Government of Change”
And instituted a firm policy:
Not to deal with
The Palestinian issue,
Not to negotiate
And of course not to come
To any agreement.
And so it was, indeed.
During the whole time
Of the government’s existence
There were no negotiations.
What definitely did happen
Was ever-increasing
Oppression in the Occupied Territories.
But the Palestinians
did not disappear.
Nor did they wait patiently
For Israel to graciously
Notice their existence.
More and more Palestinians
Took up arms
To resist the raids of
The occupation army
Into their cities and villages.
The death toll continues to mount.
Tensions continue to increase.
By all accounts
The situation is escalating
Towards a big explosion.
And then, suddenly –
Prime Minister Lapid
Makes a huge u-turn
And tells the United Nations
Of his intention to promote
The two-state solution!
But there is a condition:
The Palestinians must
Lay down their arms.
Lay down their arms?
But, if not for the
Palestinian militias
Starting to shoot at
Israeli troops, and
Undermine the stability
Of the occupation rule –
Would Israel’s PM
Have bothered at all
To refer to them
And their problems?