Friday, May 13, 2022

Lies and Entitlements

 Family and friends carry the coffin of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed during an Israeli raid in Jenin in Jenin, May 13, 2022.  (photo credit: REUTERS/AMMAR AWAD)

How strange it is in this reverse universe

where truth and reality are subverted to a

narrative more suited to the ambitions of 

a peculiar people who appear to have walked

through a mirror channelling them to a time

and place that never existed priming them

to claim progenitors never theirs and to claim

a land, its sacred sites of the inhabitants as

theirs by divine conquest. The divinity they 

cite as authority not theirs but that of those 

they scorn and hate. While their entitlement 

is to torment and kill the indigenous of the land 

they name themselves as victims for they are 

the oppressed and those they feel must die at 

their  hands are the oppressors. It is they that 

occupy land ancestral to others but those others 

are named the 'occupiers' who must be countered 

and slaughtered. How very strange this obverse 

universe they inhabit with their claims.

 

 

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