Let’s be straight.
Although you deny it,
In practice you’ve made impossible
A viable Palestinian nation
And annexed
The entire West Bank.
For this iniquitous
Mephistophelian act
I can no longer call myself
A Zionist.
From now on I shall strive
For a bi-national state:
Equal rights for all.
Since you are not religious
And, unlike some of the settlers
And their devious, apocalyptic
Evangelical allies,
Don’t, I presume, wish
To establish theocratic rule
In this “Greater Israel”,
The time has come to prove
You are indeed democratic
And not a dictatorial,
Pro-apartheid
Secular Jewish supremacist.
How ironic and poetically just
That Revisionist hubris,
Will to power and greed
Could be the very means –
Enantiodromic –
By which, with God’s help,
A democratic, post-Zionist
Palistrael
May eventually be born
And Esau and Jacob atoned.
Jerusalem
10 June 2020