The pirate captains
of Israel’s apartheid
battleship of state
sail upon the same
dead seas of hate
once plied by South
Africa’s blood-fisted
predators, so, of course,
they will not, cannot,
attend Nelson Mandela’s
funeral services. How
could they when they
despise everything the
man and the millions
who struggled with him
stood for: an end to
the murderous racial
oppression of whole
peoples by merciless
police-enforced
colonizers. While
the West Bank
and Gaza burn
with the same
grizzly disease,
Israel and her
enemies of freedom
would stand exposed
as the criminals they
are and shamed
in the shadow of
Mandela’s greatness.