A Desperate Prayer
After Millennia of animus, between Palestinians and Jews, constant bloodshed, destruction, the eternal fermenting of enmity, loathing and hate, in my lifetime continues, fomented first by the formation of the Israeli state, in 1948, by an careless action of the United Nations, proclaiming, and seizing Palestine, without regard to its Arab inhabitants rights, appropriating the land, subjugating the Palestinian population to the newly formed Israeli state, and not providing a equitable two state solution, displacing an entire people, ripping away their land, homes, lives and dignity and self-determination, being govern by the newly formed Israeli state, festering blood vengeance, erupting, time and again war after bloody war, annihilating countless thousands of lives of Jew and Palestinian, Men, Women and Children, denying all, peace, prosperity, and self dignity.
These misdirected policies of the United States, Israel, Iran, and Arab countries for the past 75 years, whose constant antagonism only exacerbated, more vitriol and endless wars, leading up to the disastrous attack by Hamas, on October 7th 2023. And as this horrific attack wasn’t devastating enough, the Israeli response, so outrageously inhumanly brutally lopsided, punishing the innocent Palestinians people, who couldn’t control Hamas, but too lived in fear of them, are the fodder, used by Hamas, as human shields, so blood flows, and Gaza’s reduced to no more than rubble, and the unprecedented humanitarian crisis, of hunger, carnage is the result of Hama’s self destructive attack.
More than 50,000 in Gaza alone have died, mostly innocent women and children, blown to pieces, and now Lebanon, whose Hezbollah’s attacks, spurred on by Iran’s Clergy, who is financing both Hamas and Hezbollah, provoking more destruction, while they, the Iranian leaders, Mulla’s, violating their own religious doctrines, misogynistic crushing of their own women, and intolerance of any criticism by their population’s protesters, punishing them with long term brutal prison sentences and death, sit on the sideline, not committing themselves, or their soldiers to engage directly in the conflict, but using the lives of their proxy surrogates, as the Yemenis Houthis’s, and others, to rein terror on Northern Israeli settlements, and ships on the Red Sea, resulting in, not only in Israeli abandonment of northern towns, and death, but impacting world trade too. as now thousands of Lebanese, are paying the price as, Lebanese Men, Women and Children are the new casualties too.
To what end? When will this timeless bloody mindless hate, between brothers ever end?
“Peace’s, Turn, Turn, Turn” is a video, on this continuing madness...is my tormented voice in the wind…