The erasure of Israel as a topic from the Durbin Conference on racism enables the Israeli "Defense" Force to carry out Israel's apartheid agenda with impunity.

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 IDF - Israeli Defense Fantasy

The Israeli "Defense" Force
has not had to defend itself
against another army
since the early seventies.
The fourth largest military on earth,
with the most up-to-the-minute
lethal, means of destruction,
turns it on women and children,

the elderly, their homes, hospitals and schools,
making sure they've no clean drinking water,
electricity and, increasingly, food.

IDF uses white phosphorous
to incinerate them to charcoal briquettes,
DIMES and GBU-39s to surgically slice off
their legs, their arms and their heads.

IDF force is used essentially
against those without any hope of defense.
It's an army of cowards wading in the blood
of people with no means to threaten them.

The Israeli Occupation Force has never
met an enemy tank or enemy pilots in combat.
Its tanks crush taxis and other civilian vehicles.
Residential neighborhoods are all that's bombed by its pilots.

"That's what was so nice about Gaza,"
an IDF soldier said.
"You see a person on the road
...and you can just shoot him."  Dead.

These "soldiers"/serial killers wear T-shirts
proclaiming "One shot, two kills"
with targets superimposed on the abdomens
of pregnant Palestinian women.

This "ethical" fighting force is trained
to conduct grotesque spectacles of blood-thirsty killing
of dirty, subhuman terrorists, in other words,
innocent Palestinian civilians.

These are not "a few bad apples", but an orchard,
the fruit of the poisonous, apartheid tree.
Since Zionism demanded a land without people,
Palestine was cleansed ethnically

for a group of dominionist criminals,
a racist people who are not a race,
united by hatred for anyone ineligible
for their manufactured Jews-only nation.

Their IDF specializes in fighting
wars that are not really wars,
but a deliberate, wanton assembly line
of war crimes and blood-soaked mass murders.

The "most moral soldier of the face of the earth"
writes "Death to Arabs" in the homes he invades so casually,
spits on family photos, smears his shit over the walls,
then destroys everything that means anything to the family.

Just because he can.  Mmmmmmm...  What a man!

Gaza is proof of how much importance
the IDF places on ethics.
Any show of concern, or promise to investigate
is an elaborate charade for the public

because "for the IDF, justice
is a dead Palestinian and a live Israeli.
Anything else is meaningless." *

*Richard Silverstein

"The Palestinians must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of their consciousness that they are a defeated people." - Israeli Army Chief Moshe Yaalon, 2002

"Terrorize the civilian population, assuring maximal destruction of property and cultural resources...  The daily life of the Palestinians must be rendered unbearable.  They should be locked up in cities and towns, prevented from exercising normal economic life, cut off from workplaces, schools and hospitals.  This will encourage emigration and weaken the resistance to future expulsions." - Ur Shlonsky

"Neither Jewish ethics nor Jewish tradition can disqualify terrorism as a means of combat." - Yitzhak Shamir, former Irgun terrorist and former Prime Minister of Israel

"Our race is the 'Master Race.'  We are divine gods on this planet.  We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects...other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best.  Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races.  The masses will lick our feet and serve as our slaves. - Menachem Begin, former Irgun terrorist and former Prime Minister of Israel

"May the Holy Name visit retribution on the Arabs' heads, and cause their seed to be lost, and annihilate them, and cause them to be vanquished and cause them to be cast from the world.  It is forbidden to be merciful to them, you must give them missiles, with relish - annihilate them.  Evil ones, damnable ones." - Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Shas Party spiritual leader, 2001

Authors Bio:
Vi's works appear widely both in print and online. She conducts Poetry Workshops and gives readings in Central New York. Her latest chapbook is "Sine Qua Non Antiques (an Arcanum of History, Geography and Treachery).