The Jackals of Hamas

Who might have foreseen a floodtide of

face-masked jackals of Hamas emerging 

from their foetid burrows to publicly ventilate

their toxic hatred for the presence of Jews

within civilized society? Who might have

ever imagined that civilized society harboured

the simmering dark clouds of antisemitism

whose presence people of conscience assumed

would never again reappear to bludgeon the

complacency of all those who believed in the

justice of equality and mutually engaged respect?

And all it took to reverse such pleasantries was a

starkly sadistic savage attack by terrorists on Jews

who had the effrontery to believe their human right

to normal lives were ironclad in today's world only

to be reminded in a flash thought before death

that the ancient curse was an inbred pathology

that would never expire. That bleak symbolism of

naive trust in humanity spurred the lurking spawn

of hate to reveal their unexpired loathing in a burst

of exultant violence stunning the recipients while

trusted authorities failed their test and simply looked

away as supine enablers of the hellish fires of hate.