Sanctioning Israel

 

Truly, humankind is amazing in its endless 

capacity to mount episode after episode of 

boundless inchoate rage, all targeting one

minuscule sliver of a nation whose very

existence sends its despisers into paroxysms 

of twisted fantasies to support their contention

of its evil illegitimacy. Its accusers, those

whose actions are rife with atrocities inflicted

upon their own wax shrill in concerted

sanctimony over a hated nation indifferent 

 to their accusations, itself a paragon of civility

-- in an uncivil geography -- where various

religions, ethnic groups and minorities share

a just system of equal rights. This tiny nation

embattled and slandered gives the United Nations

that august bastion of universal human rights 

and equality among member states the very

reason for its existence for its unifying

force is not unqualified support of the qualities

it claims, but mutual agreement in a self

serving pact to ensure that hostile denunciations

of that nation continue unabated, a purpose

for which gratitude can be detected when

hypocritical accusers mount central stage as

appointed arbiters of justice and fairness

foreign in application in their own nations

deflecting notice to mete out sanction after

insult even while the appointees launch deadly

conflict within their spheres of influence

littering their worlds with the corpses

of those they identify as enemies of the state.

Those nations whose values and customs echo

that of Israel's see fit to cravenly stand witness.