Messianic nationalist fanatics
Want to take over
The Al Aqsa Mosque,
Expel the Muslims from it,
Institute a sacrifice of young goats
(A barbaric custom
That Judaism abandoned long ago),
And eventually destroy the mosque
And build a Jewish Temple in its place.
Minister Itamar Ben Gavir,
A good friend of these fanatics,
Ordered the Israeli police
To break into the mosque
And forcibly remove
Hundreds of young Muslims
To facilitate the fanatics
Holding there a provocative “visit”.
Footage of the violent evacuation
Filled the international media
Causing outrage among the Palestinians
And among all Muslims.
Soon, borders heated up
In the south and the north.
Missiles flew and planes bombed
And air raid alarms sounded
In Gaza and Lebanon and Israel and Syria.
In the Jordan Valley
Young Israeli settler women
Were killed, along with
Their mother.
And in Tel Aviv an Italian tourist
Perished in a conflict
Which was none of his concern.
The Jewish Temple
Which was destroyed
By the Roman legions
In 70 AD
Is firmly rooted
In Jewish consciousness.
But in 2023 AD
The State of Israel,
Its citizens, its government
And also its police
Must unequivocally recognize
That where the Jewish Temple stood
There is today a mosque,
One of the sites most holy
To a billion Muslims
Around the world.
It has been like that
For 1300 years already
And so it will remain
Until the coming of the Messiah.