Saturday, December 7, 2024

Bred in the Marrow of Their Bones

Thousands of people, both Israeli and Palestinians, have died since October 7, 2023, after Palestinian Hamas militants based in the Gaza Strip, entered southern Israel in a surprise attack leading Israel to declare war on Hamas in Gaza the following day.

Hate that would kill at close range, of such a depth 

of bellicosity the killing would involve a slow

agonizing ritual of torture before death arrives --

at long range is geared to satisfy its raging fury 

through expressions of livid wordplay to deliver 

the searing message of Jew-hate so long entrenched 

it has atrophied any vestige of humanity in the 

holder. Beware the barest hint of reproach in a 

public forum in reaction to the floridly morbid 

rantings of a Hamas-admiring 'protest' mob for its 

guaranteed result in responses that would blanche 

the countenance of an inveterate connoisseur of 

imprecations spat poisonously by any ill-bred 

ignoramuse steeped deep in hate. Curses that can 

make your flesh creep until one becomes so deeply

accustomed to their hurling daggers of verbal ordure 

you respond with a yawn to those ubiquitous

visceral subconscious tics of viral antisemitism.


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