The Pantomime of Life

 Exhibit A: The ancient culture for which life

is an exaltation, a covenant of priceless existence

devoted to the pursuit of perfecting the qualities

that make us human, in a dedication to the 

forces of creation. A people's inheritance of joy

in life exploiting all opportunities for advancing

knowledge through enterprise and curiosity in the

great unknowns of existence throughout the universe.

Exhibit B: A people latterly identifying as a

human unit possessing the ardent emotion of

victimhood as an entitlement to a land hosting

the residents of Exhibit A willing to share but not

to accept self-exile to satisfy the craving of the other.

A Solomon's puzzle of judgement to settle the crisis

of threats and violence, the deadly attacks that

vigilance itself cannot stem. A solemn mood attains

in mourning as the helpless taken by force are

returned to a life forever altered by grief and loss

for those termed the aggressors in occupying their

ancestral land. In reverse, the victims guilty of

violent upheaval and murder, released in exchange

to great celebration among their own: a Victory!

Joy at the liberation of youth taught there is beauty

in forcing death upon others. Joy though their very

release involved the death of thousands of their own

in the blind belief that martyrdom to a deadly cause

of pain and anguish caused to others represents a

gain of immense value -- of suffering validated.