Palestine
The state of Israel is established
Founded on displacement and terror
Ethnic cleansing created a nation
The Nakba erased a history
Executions, deportations and evictions
From Herzl to Sharon, Ben Gurion to Netanyahu
From the Golan Heights to Tel Aviv
From the Red Sea to the Dead Sea
The policy is always the same
The obliteration of Palestine
From the river to the sea
Palestine will be free
Far right leaders stand with Likud
The flies feast upon corpses
Apache helicopters circle
Children scatter in the alleys
When the bullets rain down
The prey are unprotected, the predator is ruthless
IDF snipers celebrate their kills with cheers
Inside the machinery of occupation,
Detentions, separations and violence with impunity
Indoctrinated discrimination and racism
O Israel, O Israel who shall be your God?
From the river to the sea
Palestine will be free
An Ancient home a biblical terrain
These occupied territories which
Israel called a land without people
Now graveyards in Jerusalem and Jericho
The wounds line the rivers and streams
From the Mediterranean to the Red Sea
Tortured landscape and rewritten history
Refugee camps with no right of return
Conquest and colonised the homeland of tears
Where the past lives on in songs and poems
Ancient civilisations beneath Israel
The land sings the spirits of the dead
1948 and 1967 laid the foundations
For the biggest prison on earth
All along the watchtower the IDF keep the view
Inside the barbed wire slammer
The bulldozers cement an apartheid regime
The ghettos of Gaza and the West Bank
Daily harassment and confinement
Violation of international law
The so called greater Israel ideology
Hand in hand with the American far right
A spy in the Middle East
The stars over Galilee are pale as death
From the river to the sea
Palestine will be free
Palestinian resistance met with brutality
A bank of targets or mowing the lawn
Carnage from the skies to the planes
Destruction of sacred temples
No redemption in death
The landscape of lamentation
For the mourners and bereaved
A red sun over Nazareth
The skies darken with Israeli bombers
The Jordan valley burns hard and bright
War is the currency of Israel
Arms tech and surveillance industries
Special forces mercenary killers
Muscle for hire around the world
Gun fire sings hymns over Bethlehem
Beneath a valley of corpses
Father, mother, sister and brother killed
As a child of five years old I am spared for another day
When the sun no longer rises I will be with my family again
Buried in the land that will always be ours
From the river to the sea
Palestine will be free