They were a horde prepared for action that
would be the stuff of nightmares arriving
before dawn broke on the Sabbath, stealthily
destroying a protective border barrier, flooding
into towns and villages shown on maps they
carried though some among them knew the
environs well, where they sought and were
given employment as farm labourers and it
was they who knew where the security detail
slept which became the first deadly casualties
of a lethal raid to destroy young lives and old.
Girls and women tormented, mutilated, raped
and murdered. Entire families torched to death
in their homes, infants and their parents alike.
The final touch, capture and kidnap hostages
to be brought back with the murderers to be
publicly reviled, taunted and thrashed by the
very townsfolk and villagers on the opposite
side of the border, taught from childhood to
despise their neighbours, to aspire to the heroism
of martyrdom, sacrificing their own lives for the
glory of slaughtering as many Jews as they
could before their orgy of hate and gore was
apprehended with their victims' response.
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