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Subject Road to peace (Orphans)
SenderEric
Sent16.10.2006 19:04

Check this !!!

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/Exclusive_MP3_
Tom_Waits_Road_to_Peace#39134



Young Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay) was only 18 years old,
He was the youngest of nine children, never spent a
night away from home.
And his mother held his photograph, opening the New
York Times
To see the killing has intensified along the road to
peace

There was a tall, thin boy with a whispy moustache
disguised as an orthodox Jew
On a crowded bus in Jerusalem, some had survived
World War Two
And the thunderous explosion blew out windows 200
yards away
With more retribution and seventeen dead along the
road to peace

Now at King George Ave and Jaffa Road passengers
boarded bus 14a
In the aisle next to the driver Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay)
And the last thing that he said on earth is "God is
great and God is good"
And he blew them all to kingdom come upon the road to
peace

Now in response to this another kiss of death was
visited upon
Yasser Taha, Israel says is an Hamas senior militant
And Israel sent four choppers in, flames engulfed,
tears wide open
And it killed his wife and his three year old child
leaving only blackened skeletons

It's found his toddlers bottle and a pair of small
shoes and they waved them in front of the cameras
But Israel says they did not know that his wife and
child were in the car
There are roadblocks everywhere and only suffering on
TV
Neither side will ever give up their smallest right
along the road to peace

Israel launched it's latest campaign against Hamas on
Tuesday
Two days later Hamas shot back and killed five
Israeli soldiers
So thousands dead and wounded on both sides most of
them middle eastern civilians
They fill the children full of hate to fight an old
man's war and die upon the road to peace

"And this is our land we will fight with all our
force" say the Palastinians and the Jews
Each side will cut off the hand of anyone who tries
to stop the resistance
If the right eye offends thee then you must pluck it
out
And Mahmoud Abbas said Sharon had been lost out along
the road to peace

Once Kissinger said "we have no friends, America only
has interests"
Now our president wants to be seen as a hero and he's
hungry for re-election
But Bush is reluctant to risk his future in the fear
of his political failures
So he plays chess at his desk and poses for the press
10,000 miles from the road to peace

In the video that they found at the home of Abdel
Mahdi (Shahmay)
He held a Kalashnikov rifle and he spoke with a voice
like a boy
He was an excellent student, he studied so hard, it
was as if he had a future
He told his mother that he had a test that day out
along the road to peace

The fundamentalist killing on both sides is standing
in the path of peace
But tell me why are we arming the Israeli army with
guns and tanks and bullets?
And if God is great and God is good why can't he
change the hearts of men?
Well maybe God himself is lost and needs help
Maybe God himself he needs all of our help
Maybe God himself is lost and needs help
He's out upon the road to peace

Well maybe God himself is lost and needs help
Maybe God himself he needs all of our help
And he's lost upon the road to peace
And he's lost upon the road to peace
Out upon the road to peace.





Links:

Bus 14a suicide bombing report:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2982068.s
tm

Attack on Yasser Taha & family report:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/06/12/mideast/inde
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