It is a nation whose civil society by nature
of its character is fast wedded to social mores
of justice and fairness, one whose ancestral national
homeland informs itself as a democracy among
theocratic, autocratic, warmongering neighbours
where the might of force not that of a ballot box is
the currency of control. A nation of ancient heritage
whose presence since time immemorial has been
reviled and ridiculed, its people forcefully exiled where
in the wide diaspora they are shunned and slandered
the inheritance of emotional battering teaching the
default of forbearance, hope and endurance to survive
in a hostile world never loses its trust that reason and
justice will one day prevail despite its experience of
endless torment where threat and violence is never
so distant that it cannot move from the horizon to its
near reaches where on occasion forces of demonic
rejection lead to genocide yet finds itself excessively
grateful when other nations whose values are like as
their own deign from time to time to lift eyebrows
at the excess of vile and vulgar hate targeting that
singular state dedicated to the ongoing preservation
of Jewish life where the nation knows it must secure
its means of security intact from raging conspiracies
to gather world opinion condemning its silent possession
of a weapons cache whose presence alone is a warning
it will no longer be acquiescent in the face of demands
to surrender its guarantee of safeguarding its people
though the international fora of nation states hovering
on the brink of conflict assiduously seek to deter
and deprive it of free agency as safe haven for its own.
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