A PRAYER FOR JUSTICE CONCERNING GAZA, THE WEST BANK, AND EAST JERUSALEM
©Wendell Griffen, 2023 To the One who gives all life, God of Creation, Love, Justice, Hope, Peace, Truth, and Vindication, hear this prayer for your children in Gaza, the Occupied West Bank, and East Jerusalem. Hear our prayers for the infants of Palestine. Hear our prayers for their parents. Hear our prayer for the playmates children in Gaza will never know. Hear our prayers on their behalf for justice. See the silent and sobbing tears we weep for the futures they will never experience. Smiles. Laughter. Giggles. All lost. Bombed. Incinerated. Targeted. Massacred. The slaughtered children, parents, and elders cannot plead for help. The nations of the world will not protect them. Religious leaders across the world do not cry out for them. Politicians in Israel, the United States, and their allies calculate how to take advantage of them, discount them, and subsidize, arm, and cover for Israel. Israeli Defense Forces collectively punish them, occupy the