The morally righteous

Vector map of Israel and Palestine, showing the areas of the West Bank and the Gaza strip. Image: iStock / Dimitrios Karamitros

The Lords Of Humankind are not morally righteous. They are Saturn devouring his children. And they do have human form.

They pretend

That they are

Morally righteous

 

The Presidents

The Prime Ministers

The Foreign Ministers

The myriad of homicidal monsters

And their henchmen

 

Occupying positions of power

Getting wealthy and fat

They threaten and act

Blood drips

From their lying, hypocritical mouths

 

Legions of propagandists mould

Their genocidal fantasies

For the alienated masses

The lies they hone to finesse

Spread efficiently to hundreds of millions

Spread efficiently, rapidly, digitally

Maybe billions mesmerised

 

Their moral militaries

Commit industrial scale war crimes

Cluster bombs, Phosphorus Bombs

Drones, Cruise Missiles

All the military paraphernalia

To obliterate, kill, murder, the Other

The Enemy

 

More quickly

More Efficiently

The Enemy

 

The Palestinians

Killed Day in Day out

Daily incrementally

Massively regularly

 

The Palestinians

The Palestinians

The Palestinians

 

But, hey, the Lords

Of Humankind

Are not morally righteous

They are Saturn

Devouring his children

And they do

Have human form

John Janusz Ebel

John-Janusz Ebel is the son of Holocaust survivors. Soon after coming to Australia from Poland, Ebel chose to be a draft resister and activist against the Vietnam War; he also participated in Aboriginal struggles against continued oppression and genocide of Aboriginal people. Ebel has practised as a radical existentialist psychotherapist.