Friday, April 9, 2021

Bitter Betrayal

Joe Biden, left, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in front of U.S. and Israeli flags

Hope springs eternal even when experience

informs the seasoned intelligence that

the expected has a habit of ingraining itself

to the point of no return. The enemy of

one's enemy on occasion turns a Janus

face to view one's enemy as an entity with

whom the business of realpolitik can proceed.

That this emboldens one's enemy to believe

the avenue has opened wide whereby one's 

downfall can be quietly plotted and carried

through with no repercussions other than your

very own existential resistance spells out firmly

what should have been acknowledged but was

set aside in the expectation that friendship

would endure in the face of malign pressure

while neglecting to take into account the

predictable, that material gains supersede any

manner of promise to which there is a cost.

 

 

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