The world rears up in disbelieving anger
bellowing in the stentorian voice of group rage
its condemnation of Islamist terrorism when
Europe or countries of the Western alliance
are attacked with the murderous assault of jihad.
Fear creeps into the minds of citizens as they absorb
news of yet another assault on democracy and
human rights, and the dark night of terror has achieved
its twofold purpose. Those same agents of terror
suddenly become 'militants' when their focus sharpens
on one tiny nation, an island of democracy in a great sea
of autocratic rule; sheikdoms, kingdoms, theocracies
where the terror that reigns is mostly internal and where
Islamist violence committed in these national enclaves
is now summarily and violently extinguished. Among them
that sliver of land, an ancestral, indigenous territory
heralding the return of an ancient people to an ancient
land is ferociously and continuously attacked as an
interloper where its Judaic presence is held as an
insult to Islam, the latter-day belief lifting its precepts
from the very religion it has pledged to exterminate.
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