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Baby Killers

I leave this for your descendants

For your ears are deaf and your eyes blind

Your children will carry your names with bowed heads

This generation of vipers will pass

You will carry this legacy as a badge of calumny

It will be a testimony to your perfidy

No name calling is required

Every child who survives will remember

I want to go Apollo Creed on you all

I want to seize your false piety and warped dreams of Armageddon

And scream, WHAT’S THE MATTER WTH YOU?

I was raised on these stories

Munich, Hitler, poor Anne Frank

who should be a happy Jewish grandmother

Interspersed with moments of glory—ahh, Entebbe!

Reality would intrude little by little, exploding in Lebanon

Yet no one asks why

Why do they hate each other?

Animosity does not arise from nothing

We’re never taught to ask why

Only to choose sides, and it’d better be OUR SIDE or else

How many times have we seen these images

Emaciated shells that should be full and round

Flesh stretched tight over bones that should never be so pronounced

This is not God’s handiwork, this is no freak of nature

It is always deliberate

The speeches so full of platitudes

Oh, they were so convincing

But now I don’t know who you people are

Or what sick place you’re coming from

Our eyes are open, the masks have fallen

You people have debased our proud nation

Marco, Donnie you have shamed us

Joe, worst of all you taught me shame

Three years into your term and we’d have followed you, gladly

Thanks to you, old man, I’ve begun to shed my islamophobia

Would that you had ever done the same

Is it just children in general

Or do you despise babies who don’t quite look like you?

Is their complexion not quite right

Or is it just you?

Were your mothers this disdainful of life?

I would not waste retribution on your souls

I offer you something worse

I hope and pray that you will be forgotten

In days to come I wish it that your names,

Netanyahu, Trump, Biden

When they are spoken

Our descendants will rise from the ashes of civilization

And ask, Who? Sorry, those names don’t mean anything to me

You have created nothing

You have saved nothing

You have made NOTHING great again

May you be footnotes, barely registering

On the ledger of man’s inhumanity

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The War on Gaza

I’m afraid I lost my faith in humanity, and it’s from the last quarter I expected. I liked Joe Biden, I really did. He got us through the pandemic. Okay. But his blind obedience to the whims of Zionism opened a door that can never be closed.

i remember a time when Israel was the underdog. First there was Munich, which I was too young to understand except as something horrible that happened to those poor athletes. And then there was Entebbe — yay, they rescued the hostages and killed all the bad guys! Then Camp David. Lebanon in 1982 should’ve been a clue, but the bias, culturally and biblically, was too much to question. I was blind.

The mask is off. The more I’ve learned, the more I’ve realized we’re dealing with insane people. It took me a long time to remove the rose colored lenses we saw the world through, maybe too long. I was in my church for 25 years, we were told one of the signs of the Last Days would be the restoration of Israel in the promised land. We’d sing “Israel, Israel, God is calling!”

Yeah, well if he’s calling it’s not to say, “well done, my good and faithful servant, well done!” If this is a god I’m going to respect, when Netanyahu meets St. Peter I expect him to say, “what in the F— are you doing? Have you lost your mind? Why are you killing your children?”

I’ve seen this too many times. Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Somalia, Darfur, Gaza. Children murdered, subjected to famine. They treat famine as a tragedy in the media, oh those poor starving children. They tend to gloss over the fact that every famine is man made. Every one.

I’m trying to shed my islamaphobia. That’s the only thing that makes sense about this so called war. It’s part of our holy crusade on behalf of Israel. Not the biblical state of old, I mean the current state mangling the values of Judaism as badly as evangelicals have mangled Christianity in the US. How else can you explain the ease with which we dismiss the lives of Palestinians, women and children?

I don’t think I can ever trust Democrats again, not until they show a little humanity, an actual spine. They can’t lecture anyone on human rights or the international order ever again. Republicans I expect inhumanity from, but this past election demonstrated there’s no difference between them when it comes to bending the knee to Israeli policy.

I don’t know where this is going to end in Gaza. I have only one certainty. Netanyahu has already failed. The Palestinians are scattered across the Middle East, from Jordan to Egypt and even the United States. Yes, I know that’s not in the Middle East, but the point stands. There are large populations everywhere. Maybe they’ll eradicate them from Israel, but their culture is alive, their literature, their children will survive in some form. The Palestinian people may continue as a refugee class, but they will still be alive. And someday, when saner heads prevail, they will come home.