Middle East Shoah
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair
A Shoah is taking place in the Middle East and
few people seem to notice,
certainly not those responsible for the thousands of bombs rained over
innocent civilians, mostly
women, children, old people and those with disabilities.
Those who ordered it and made it possible
Sit comfortably in their plump offices
oblivious to the suffering
They preach peace while waging interminable war
In the meantime (a real mean time)
more than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed, several thousand left with permanent injuries
their future all but destroyed forever
while more than a million displaced people wander the roads lacking the most basic necessities
Those Israelis whose relatives were killed on October 7
experience the same bereavement, albeit in drastically more limited numbers
their hope all but destroyed
This happens as Bibi Netanyahu whose hands, made unrecognizable by the blood covering them,
boasts of the Israel Defense Forces’ ability to identify adversaries in a crowd, and kill them without mercy.
Is this the world we want to leave for our children?
I cannot but wonder how the leaders of the people who suffered the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust
can inflict a Holocaust on other people.
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