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Twisted tales from historyLately been convincing meSystematic land grabsAnd war's creating misery48, 56, 67, 73Destruction in the name of Western DemocracyHoly land, that's the deedThat fuels this racist war machineWhile the Western press slams IranFor acting so religiouslyHypocrisy, that's what I seeOccupation propped by bigotryIgnorance towards Arab landsThat dictates which facts we seeTwisted tales from historyLately been convincing meSystematic land grabsAnd war's creating miseryThe British Mandate, MossedeghThe Hashemite monarchyDestruction in the name of Western DemocracyPhillistinee children spread all over the regionThe survivors of al-Nakba, uprooted and imprisonedSongtexteGroves of ancient olive trees plowed over in a momentRefugees piling in to Lebanon and JordanAnd Iraq, who ain't forgot about the Ameriyya massacreOr the highway of death, that summarized the last warSoldiers flying from Kuwait in Bush's helicoptersFiring missiles into soldiers surrendering in BasraTwisted tales from historyLately been convincing meSystematic land grabsAnd war's creating miseryCovert bombings aimed at NasserSmall Pox sold to Saddam HusseinDestruction in the name of Western DemocracyThe modern feats of medicineAscribed to wealthy British menWe're the works of Arab doctorsAnd Persian mathematiciansAlgebra, the 1, 2, 3sThe science and AstronomyEducation as the basis of real democracyI don't care or you're a Muslim or JewI care about what you doYou take my land, blockade my portsI'll fire missiles at you tooAnd that's not to say I'd like to live this wayNo one wants to see their people dying everydayOr having to bomb the border wall just to get medicineDigging tunnels into Egypt to smuggle food and water inSewage spilling out into the blue shores of PalestineThe culture, the land, the people, a slow and brutal genocideHoly land, that's the deedThat fuels this little war machineThe justifies apartheidTo benefit IsraelisHypocrisy, that's what I seeWe're blinded by this bigotryIgnorance towards IslamThat dictates which facts we see Aus Songtexte Mania