The Jewish Enigma

Such are the irrational vagaries of human nature.

Where some among the total prefer to pursue

lives of gratitude for opportunities to enjoy

the premise of a life well lived as one that

respects others' entitlement to that same pursuit.

The antithesis of which are others disgruntled

with all that life promises at the cost of effort

and a balanced mind willing to share the goods

of the earth with others. The perplexity of this

choice dangling before humanity and its outcome

is that Jews among whose roster the world's

great minds fostered advances in every sphere

of human life from art to physics remain the

perennial outcasts, a people denied equality among

others, ordained to be forever held in contempt

while the opponents of a Judean state renewed

seeing themselves entitled to inherit what is not

theirs from the authentic indigenous of an ancient

revered land succumb to the primitive urge to

pillage, murder and destroy in a savage display

of inherited enmity within which the outer world

finds perverted nobility in the endless repetition

of a narrative of victimhood, aspirations denied.