We, lovers of Palestine, We are better than you.
We do not instrumentalise our holy scripture to rob people of their houses,
We are better than you.
We don’t pollute the noble history of victimhood of our ancestors,
and use it to treat people like shit,
We are better than you.
We do not like thieving, exploiting, aggressive, fascistic, violent states,
We are better than you.
We who grieve the dead as human beings, not as superior ethno-national subjects,
we are better than you.
We who do not feel pain at the sight of a suffering child according to where the child comes from,
We are better than you.
We who have refused to master indifference in the face of injustice and genocide,
We are better than you.
We who do not love ourselves by hating others,
we are better than you.
We who acknowledge that we can be better than we are and work on ourselves to be so,
We are better than you.
We who recognise that history is full of injustices that we need to acknowledge,
and where possible rectify,
rather than ignore, hide and deny,
we are better than you.
We are
We are more loving, we are more caring,
we are more sensitive, we are more receptive
and we are more perceptive,
There are only two reasons why, we might die suffocating in your self-serving, hating, thieving, blind with narrow and short-sighted self-interest, world.
You are better financed and you are better armed.
But we are better than you.
