The Brothers Grimm's folk tale of a fisherman
and a magical fish that granted wishes told of a
wish too far; when king, emperor, palaces, wealth
were granted the demand became pope, then god
and all was reversed. Now the spectacle of a
latter day Pope for whom the downtrodden and
oppressed has particular resonance has himself
chosen to reach beyond his purview to emulate
god. Historically popes were unmoved at the plight
of the world's premier 'untouchable caste' eternally
charged with fomenting all the ills of the world.
When a genocide took place the moral influence
and power of the world's foremost religious figure
close to the heavenly figure forbore to censure the
slaughter for they were only Jews suffocating in gas
chambers, shot down in droves into corpse-full pits
rounded up by willing Europe to travel in cattle cars
to slave labour camps, death camps to rid the world
of a pestiferous tribe. The memory of the six million
Jewish children, frail elderly and adults who perished
haunt us evermore. That was genocide. The genocide
bandied about in accusations against Jewish Israel for
temerity displayed in refusing to sacrifice themselves to
satisfy the venom of psychopathic challengers to Judaic
tradition, memory and land reveals a different scenario
of a Jewish military that fights to secure a Jewish future.
That response is cursed by those whose endless enmity
equates defense with intent to harm innocent lives viewed
through a prism of virtuous condemnation of Jewish
survival upheld with the conviction of a pope swift to
declare support and belief in the charges of genocide
courtesy of a Jewish state left to fend for itself in a bleak
sea of swarming, slithering serpents of dysfunctional hate.
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