(a children’s nursery rhyme in honour of the Jerusalem District Court issuing an injunction to stop a crocodile filled moat being installed at Ketziot Prison on animal welfare grounds)
You can’t be cruel to a crocodile
No, you can’t be mean to a crock
But Palestinians you can slaughter
30,000 sons and daughters (under 5)
Not a tear is shed
No condemnation
The weapons keep flowing
To the genocidal nation
But you can’t be cruel to a crock
You can’t be cruel to a crocodile
No, you can’t be mean to a crock
But a ship at sea
Off the coast of Greece
You can board
And the crew you can seize
And take all the people
You blind fold and shackle
To a pirate ship for G’Vir to taunt and heckle
But you can’t be cruel to a crock
You can’t be cruel to a crocodile
No, you can’t be cruel to a crock
But a Lebanese or Palestinian village
You can erase
And you truck away the rubble
To hide your crimes
Before the bodies are found
From your genocide
A family of 6 you can incinerate
You can kidnap doctors
And lock them away
And West Bank villagers
Attack and kill at whim
And of the 1,200 killed?
Only one murderous “settler” charged
who made the mistake of killing on film, someone of international repute
(but don’t worry, the press will move on and he’ll be released)
But you can’t be cruel to a crock
You can’t be cruel to a crocodile
No, you can’t be mean to a crock
You can’t change them from a protected species
To be “cultivated animals”
That’s a load of faeces
Think of the trauma you’ll inflict on them
If, by chance, they eat smiling Ben
(and if they’re there to eat terrorists, he better beware, cause he’s been convicted of that)
Why the indigestion could be the death of them
No, you can’t be cruel to a crock
But a Palestinian
You can arrest at will
And anally rape with a metal pole
And Idi[o]t Silman can opine
That “the only solution for the Gaza strip is to empty it of Gazans”
And not an eyebrow is raised
No criticism passes the lips
Of the dumbfounded fools who presently barter
Until they are swept aside by the Intifada
So that a day may come
When a human life
Means more to these fools
Than a crocodile.
