tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3626948142271204254.post5146236809602705977..comments2023-09-16T13:59:34.933+01:00Comments on Vagrant in the Casual Ward of a Workhouse: Dear Mr SimonGary Paul Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324318621702826617noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3626948142271204254.post-12463470489952223952011-06-10T00:22:47.546+01:002011-06-10T00:22:47.546+01:00And as Dylan in 1983 so astutely wrote of that &qu...And as Dylan in 1983 so astutely wrote of that "evil" nation, Israel:-<br /><br />Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man,<br />His enemies say he's on their land.<br />They got him outnumbered about a million to one,<br />He got no place to escape to, no place to run.<br />He's the neighborhood bully.<br /><br />The neighborhood bully just lives to survive,<br />He's criticized and condemned for being alive.<br />He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin,<br />He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.<br />He's the neighborhood bully.<br /><br />The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land,<br />He's wandered the earth an exiled man.<br />Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn,<br />He's always on trial for just being born.<br />He's the neighborhood bully.<br /><br />Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized,<br />Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.<br />Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad.<br />The bombs were meant for him.<br />He was supposed to feel bad.<br />He's the neighborhood bully.<br /><br />Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim<br />That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him,<br />'Cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back<br />And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac.<br />He's the neighborhood bully.<br /><br />He got no allies to really speak of.<br />What he gets he must pay for, he don't get it out of love.<br />He buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied<br />But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side.<br />He's the neighborhood bully.<br /><br />Well, he's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace,<br />They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease.<br />Now, they wouldn't hurt a fly.<br />To hurt one they would weep.<br />They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.<br />He's the neighborhood bully.<br /><br />Every empire that's enslaved him is gone,<br />Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon.<br />He's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand,<br />In bed with nobody, under no one's command.<br />He's the neighborhood bully.<br /><br />Now his holiest books have been trampled upon,<br />No contract he signed was worth what it was written on.<br />He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth,<br />Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health.<br />He's the neighborhood bully.<br /><br />What's anybody indebted to him for?<br />Nothin', they say.<br />He just likes to cause war.<br />Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed,<br />They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed.<br />He's the neighborhood bully.<br /><br />What has he done to wear so many scars?<br />Does he change the course of rivers?<br />Does he pollute the moon and stars?<br />Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill,<br />Running out the clock, time standing still,<br />Neighborhood bully.Howard Fredricshttp://www.sirpeterscott.com/antisemitism.htmlnoreply@blogger.com