It's the age-old conflict, the territorial dispute   Endless accusations flying about who has wronged who   Desperate determination to show no sign of weakness    The leaders take action while their people pay the consequences   Abandoning diplomacy, those in power unwilling to yield   Playing stupid fucking politics that just get people killed   Deciding that all out aggression is the best way to defend   so the cycle of violence starts all over again   It's a bloodbath in the west bank   There is no end in sight   Both sides are so consumed with avenging death   that there's no respect for life   Israeli soldiers are gunning down Palestinians   Murdering children for throwing stones   While Hamas is recruiting children to become martyrs   and murder more Israelis as suicide bombers   But the biggest obscenity of all of this hateful hostility   has been reducing through action and rhetoric into a subhuman enemy   The dehumanization of one another   has been the justification for the horrific brutality   It's a bloodbath in the Gaza strip   There is no end in sight   Both sides are so consumed with avenging death   that there's no respect for life   How many more?   How long?   Who's right?   Who's wrong?   Are they really so bloodthirsty in their hatred for the enemy   that they're willing to disregard their own peoples safety?   They make their own people targets with every act of aggression   All in the name of teaching the enemy a lesson   Innocent people imprisoned by the violence that the conflict creates   Warmongers and butchers deciding everyone's fate   How will there ever be peace with such human rights abuses?   When you dehumanize humans then all humanity loses   It's a bloodbath in Bethlehem   There is no end in sight   Both sides are so consumed with avenging death   that there's no respect for life