Poem by Robert Green, former Board member of Deir Yassin Remembered and distant relative of David Ben Gurion Holocaust in Palestine You Want to Quibble Over Whether or Not It's Genocide? Then let's forget the word entirely it's a made up modern word for what's been done by tribes since before before made up by Raphael Lemkin 1943 to name what was happening to us which until then was known as the crime of barbarity now genocide which I know I agreed not to mention but it was done to us and now we're doing it to the next guy the Palestinians if we are allowed that word like the word 'Jew' or really, "Juden" a word that was supposed to be wiped out with us but wasn't but our lives one thousand years in Europe our home cleansed of us and they said we were not a true people "a people class" said Lenin "a disease" said others and now we're doing it to the next guy OK, no gas ovens that we know of yet but poison gas aplenty torture rooms a special hanging called "a Palestinian hanging" that now the Americans use hang a human by the wrists tied together back behind till they crush their own lungs over hours maybe a few days and die in horror done so much it's called "a Palestinian hanging" and steal the land and wall them in and starve their babies beat the pregnant women in front of their children their mothers their husbands and the land, stealing it, walling it, pissing on it, wiping out the place names. I can't find my grandmother's village on a map of Belarus, what she called "White Russia." It was called "Kapulya," "near Minsk," but it's not there. as isn't Palestine.