Sunday, October 8, 2023

Why Is That?

 Iranian supporters of Hezbollah wave Palestinian flags during a celebration of the attacks that the militant Hamas group carried out against Israel

How strange it is. The odd happenstance

of two groups with like characteristics

one held universally in odium for appalling

human rights abuses, the other infamous

for the same reasons in storming towns and

villages to kill at random, beheading enemies

abducting women as sex slaves, slaughtering

entire families, inculcating hate in children

teaching them to become efficient future

martyrs to the cause of religious conquest.

In the passion of their violence inspiring new

generations, their exploits funded by religious

bodies yet both held to a vastly different standard. 

Each recognized as fundamentalist extremists

who in the execution of their lethal ideology

are monstrous vehicles of death and destruction.

Their terrorism a mirror reflection of each other's 

but one interpreted by ardent supporters as a

just cause, the other just because. The group that 

brought the horror of medieval-barbaric atrocities

to the public eye when it recorded its atrocities

for all to view and shrink back aghast reviled as

its audience was repulsed and terrorized while the 

second group proudly recording its own ghastly

abuses against humanity is championed across

the world -- for their victims are singularly Jews.

 

 

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