Sunday, October 1, 2023

From Antipathy to Amicable

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/REUTERS)

Ancient tribal antipathies born of aggression

and conquest, challenges to territory and

ambition are ageless, fading yet percolating

forever in the subconscious of those for whom

history is an oral tradition of rights and wrongs

where each generation inherits a group memory

of the toxic bitterness of loss. Time and again

accusations shatter the dark silence of a bleak

vacuum regenerating grievances, promoting

active dire threats held in abeyance only to

counterbalance the other's advantages should

rhetoric rise to conflict. But mankind can

when occasion demands, sometimes soar above

and beyond vengeance when calm descends 

so saner minds can grasp the consequences of

demands that cannot be met to amend the past

in cost to the present when creative diplomacy

and reason lead the rational to solve yesterday's

dilemma with today's mutuality of compromise.

 

 

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