Then they came for us:

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Then they came for us.

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They’ve been coming for generations.

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Decades of oppression.

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Decades of bombings.

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Decades of murders.

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Decades of destruction.

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It happened to us.

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It happened to our family.

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It happened to our people.

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The world watched.

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And did nothing.

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They let it happen.

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They let them occupy.

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They let them kill.

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They let them steal our land.

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The West.

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The Middle East.

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The world.

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They watched us starve.

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They watched us lose our rights.

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They watched us lose our homes.

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They watched us get bombed.

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And they did nothing.

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We protested.

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We participated in the peace process.

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We asked for change.

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And nothing.

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So a few of us got tired.

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A few of us got angry.

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A few of us got brainwashed.

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Brainwashed into believing.

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Believing in an ideology.

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Believing in only one way of life.

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Believing in the genocide of a race.

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But that wasn’t us.

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That’s not my family.

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That’s not my friends.

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That’s not my people.

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Doesn’t matter to the rest of the world.

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They think we’re the same.

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They think the terrorists speak on behalf of us.

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They think we, the Palestinians are responsible.

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Wrong.

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We’re pawns.

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We’re bystanders.

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We’re innocent.

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But now because of the actions of a few, we have to suffer.

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Not just suffer but be destroyed.

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We have to watch war crimes happen in front of us.

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We have to leave our homes.

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We have to watch our land get destroyed.

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We have to watch our family die.

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We have to watch our destruction while the world watches.

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While they plan.

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While they position.

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While they strategize.

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Meanwhile we’re just waiting.

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We’re helpless.

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We’re struggling.

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We’re afraid.

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We have no way out.

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We prayed, then they came for us.

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We pleaded, then they came for us.

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We resisted, then they came for us.

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Will they ever stop coming for us?

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