Dangerous Lines in Sand

Verse 1

The security cabinet met today,

Behind closed doors they signed away

New rules to tighten Israel's hand

Over every mile of West Bank land.

Settlement roads and checkpoints grow,

Where olive trees once stood in rows,

A vote was cast, a line was drawn,

Another piece of justice gone.

Chorus

Dangerous, the presidency cried,

Legalizing what they can't abide,

Expansion dressed in rule of law,

While the world just watches, stunned in awe.

Oh, these dangerous lines in sand,

Tearing hope from outstretched hands.

Verse 2

The Palestinian presidency spoke,

Calling out what the decision broke,

A dangerous attempt, they said aloud,

To legalize beneath a legal shroud.

Settlement expansion, brick by brick,

Diplomacy is growing sick,

Control increased with every clause,

Written into Israel's new laws.

Chorus

Dangerous, the presidency cried,

Legalizing what they can't abide,

Expansion dressed in rule of law,

While the world just watches, stunned in awe.

Oh, these dangerous lines in sand,

Tearing hope from outstretched hands.

Verse 3

Families in the West Bank pray

For someone brave enough to say

That sovereignty is not a game,

That every people's rights are the same.

But cabinet votes carry weight,

And borders shift to seal their fate,

The hilltops claimed, the valleys too,

Tell me, what is left to do?

Bridge

Somewhere a child looks out and sees

A wall where there were fields and trees,

And history will ask one day

If we had words but chose not to say,

When the rules were rewritten overnight,

Did anyone stand up to fight?

Chorus

Dangerous, the presidency cried,

Legalizing what they can't abide,

Expansion dressed in rule of law,

While the world just watches, stunned in awe.

Oh, these dangerous lines in sand,

Tearing hope from outstretched hands.

Inspired by real events. Names, details, and narrative may be fictionalized.