Scurillous, defamatory, hate-mongering
they embrace 'freedom of speech' as lawfully
permissive in their adopted homes far from their
origins where there is no freedom to speak.
As masters of language devices to marinate
their enemies in acid baths of double-edged words
meant to slice and to dice from a culture where
anger is quick to fuse rage that leaps to violence
they quickly discern that vicious rhetoric injures
as deeply as stab wounds. In the land of their birth
lethal violence between tribes and sects a cultural
normalcy. Their diaspora homes value the soft tissue
wounds of shunning, isolation, spurning injustice
as a malady to be addressed with passion. And so
address it they do, presenting themselves as victims
who take their identity as Palestinians purloined
from the originals transformed to Pharoahs whose
brutality has injured them so deeply they turn their
venomous tongues to action in stabbing, projectiles
shooting, bombing, vehicular homicide. As victims
they can do no wrong, assured the targets of their
lethal rage inspire no empathy among the moral just.
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