At the grand circus called the UN,
the most shocking act is not the lion tamer,
but the clowns in suits, juggling genocide with a smile.

Netanyahu storms in,
half the audience bolts for the exits—
his encore?
Threatening the entire planet,
as if the world was a hotel lobby he could evict at checkout.
“Wait till I get home,” he growls,
like a dad returning to punish the kids,
except the kids are… eight million displaced Palestinians.

Enter Trump—
a stand-up comic who doesn’t know he’s the joke.
“I am really good at this stuff,” he declares,
as the audience stares like pigeons watching a train wreck.
“Your countries are going to hell—
but lucky for you, I was right about everything!”
Cue the laugh track. Cue the sighs. Cue the collective facepalm.

Meanwhile, France and England rehearse their roles—
support for Palestine!
(terms and conditions apply)
Yes, you may have a state,
but only if your textbooks erase your grandparents,
only if you forget where your villages once stood,
only if resistance is renamed “terrorism.”
Think apartheid South Africa,
but this time with better PR and worse Wi-Fi.

Mahmoud Abbas beams in on video—
the leader whose term expired
back when flip phones were still fashionable.
Denied a visa,
he still manages to reassure the very powers
holding the knife at his people’s throat:
“Don’t worry, we’ll disarm resistance.”
Translation: the fire promises to stop being hot.

And so the play continues.
Every actor supports apartheid—
they just disagree on costumes and lighting.

The shocking part?
Not the rhetoric, not the hypocrisy,
but the endless monologues that save no one.
No speech stops bombs,
no applause feeds a child,
no resolution rebuilds a home.

The script needs rewriting.
Exit the actors. Enter the crowd.
Bring the boycotts,
bring the divestments,
bring the sanctions.
Because the only comedy here
is thinking words alone will stop a bulldozer.

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Raïs Neza Boneza is the author of fiction as well as non-fiction, poetry books and articles. He was born in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Former Zaïre). He is also an activist and peace practitioner. Raïs is convener of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment for Central and African Great Lakes and uses his work to promote artistic expressions as a means to deal with conflicts and maintaining mental wellbeing, spiritual growth and healing. He has travelled extensively in Africa and around the world as a lecturer, educator and consultant for various NGOs and institutions. His work is premised on art, healing, solidarity, peace, conflict transformation and human dignity issues. Raïs work also as freelance journalist based in Trondheim, Norway. You can reach him at rais.boneza@gmail.com. http://www.raisnezaboneza.no