The Burning of the Olive Trees

Hyde
1 min readJan 13, 2024

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We grew up in a world created by Disney

Santa drank Coca Cola, Seinfeld reruns on the TV

Spielberg brought dinosaurs back to life, Borat introduced us to his wife,

And Adam Sandler was competing for a Raspberry.

We grew up in a world narrated by Hollywood

Madonna saw a ray of light, Will and Grace had a fight,

Leo DiCaprio met an iceberg, and the world met the android Zuckerberg

And Obama had us believe — for a while — that “yes we could”.

America celebrated “the end of history”

To the empty sounds of Jenny from the Block & Jon Bon Jovi.

Leonard Cohen sang a broken hallelujah,

And Michael Douglas hid behind the candelabra.

But’s it’s a rude awakening from childhood fantasy,
When you learn that all these celebrities support the Zionist military.
They’re blind to the killing of Palestinians

And the burning of the olive trees.

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Hyde

Yet another neuro-spicy writer screaming into the abyss.