Thursday, February 2, 2023

Peoples of Antiquity

Wall Art - Painting - Israel In Egypt, 1867 by Sir Edward John Poynter

Assyrians swept through the landscape of the

Near East like a raging tornado, their fierce warrior

conquest of the lands they occupied tolerating

no desperate resistance from the authentic historical

dwellers they drove into exile. Now where are

they? Wandering the world in lands that regard

them as inferior permitting no return to their

ancient dominance, now impotent and despised 

bewailing their fate unsung and merely tolerated. 

The ancestral lands of ancient Kurdistan await their

reclamation should Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria ever

relinquish what is not theirs by Kurds bemoaning

they have No Friends But The Mountains, justice eluded. 

Ancient Israelites wandering the face of the Earth 

for millennia finally returned to their dispossessed 

heritage prevailing in restoring themselves to their 

sacred Biblical origins realized when Next Year in

Jerusalem arrived in the wake of a paroxysm of

unendurable mass slaughter. Now once again a power

in their own regional defence, offering righteous haven

to those who aspired to their destruction even as

while enjoying the largess of the state the plotters 

scheme and incite as victims indulging revolt. 



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