Gifting an Unworthy World

Isn't it just wickedly, hilariously

satisfying to harass and slander Jews

sitting ducks in their cocoons of 

uncertainty over whether the world

will ever relent and view them with

the dispassion of disinterest, but in the

meanwhile their presence here and

there distant from the land that birthed

them offers them up as fodder for all

who feed at the trough of malevolence

ascribing to Jews all the miseries and

faults of fortune their detractors live with

taking pleasure in fomenting the rancid

bile of hate splattering its venom happily

foregoing moral verities for the comic's

healing balm found in victimizing others.

Unity in Disarranged Minds

The old adage of travel broadening the mind 

assumes that as we know other places and other 

peoples through a level of familiarity we open 

our minds to them finding our commonalities and

unity as members of the human race. Perhaps 

there is utility beyond entertainment in social media 

whereby disparate individuals the world over can 

reach out and touch one another's minds to the 

understanding that life is not a bauble to be wasted. 

But there too human nature at its most raw surfaces

in divisions and the ties that bind where one drifts 

toward shared prejudices, justifying pathologies of 

distrust and hate. World leaders meet in fora with the 

obligation to extend basic courtesies and though 

they speak and act in a presumed unison of purpose 

they too detach themselves from the universality of

humanity in preference to adherence to their

exclusionary belief in the superior justification

of assertive ideologies whose impact divides

to distinguish those of similar mind as opposed

to those whose world view cannot be endorsed.

Fragmentation by virtue of dislocated minds.

That August Body of Sanctimonious Focus

 

The League of Nations, a horror-struck world knew

had clearly outlived its usefulness. Under its guidance 

the world's failure to respond to a fascist tyranny's 

scheme of genocide was monumental. Never again 

would the global community stand by, hapless, helpless

and frankly disinterested in the plight of a people for

whom existence had always been fraught with danger 

for pogroms across Europe and the penchant of exiling 

Jews told the story of its narrow survival. Thus was 

born the United Nations, a seriously-intended world body 

with the influence and the gravitas to move the tyrants 

and mass murderers to rethink their sole focus on 

exterminating minorities. All the declarations and 

formal pledges to serve and protect those in need were

foundational to its purpose, formulated and approved 

and the United Nations General Assembly tended to 

the serious business of upholding human rights, holding 

the perpetrators of injustice to task, guiding recalcitrant 

nations to the paths of righteousness. In the process

discovering that after all the single nation to be held to

account should, in a tally of its members' values, be the 

state that resulted from the Holocaust, a state dedicating 

itself to preservation of the Jews whose first exile was 

from ancient Judea and the razing of Jerusalem in the 

realization that it had little option but to focus on its 

existential obligation to protect its people since it was 

manifestly obvious no human collective would.

 

 

Memorializing Sacrifice

The wish is to praise their courage and 

honour their sacrifice the ultimate in courage 

divesting themselves of their future for the

greater purpose of saving the live and futures 

of others. These were men who feared death 

yet feared even more what the world of men 

planned for themselves in a twisted fate of 

excess ardour in demand and command. They

found peace and surcease distanced from

the zones of combat, their souls lifted high

above their bodies to a still place of haven

and contemplation, no need to cover ears from

the shattering blasts of cannon, no need to

look to the skies to determine friend or foe

no need for hand-to-hand combat preparing 

to sink a bayonet in another man's chest. 

But wait, memorial services return them to 

the field of combat, the trumpet and bagpipe 

ushering them to the deafening roar of fighter 

planes in a courtesy flypass and cannon firing 

a 21-gun salute. Is there no escape from the 

turmoil and the frenzy of war for them?

If They Knew

If they knew from that eternal vacuum

of dark foreboding dreaded by those

still living would it give them any comfort 

that their willingness to fight for the liberty

security and safety of others which cost 

them their future that on the eleventh hour 

of the eleventh day of the eleventh month 

the solemn ritual dedicated to remembrance 

would see the world pause to honour them?

From the Great Beyond would the world 

hear that low moan, a shudder of regret 

intermingled with the agony of knowing 

their sacrifice won a brief interlude before 

the next war arose? Cold comfort indeed.

We have broken faith with those who died.

 

 

The Pogrom of Kristallnacht

It was a time for revelry a longed-for time

to unleash inhibitions when normalcy

meant civilized people were forced to

live among the detestable money-lenders

grasping, mendacious, cunning enemies

of decency pretending to worship God

in their synagogues when  the entire world

knew they worshipped Mammon plotting

the while to destroy all that was good and

gracious in the world to be replaced by

their grasping tentacles clutching the world

in an embrace of torment. To the decent and

self-respecting burghers of Germany finally

the opportunity to express their disdain while

loosing upon the demons hovering in society

the message that their time was coming. The

government had laid bare for all to recognize

the spoilers of the human race and this night 

and day were set aside for the people to express

their disgust at the wealth flaunted by Jews who

covet all that others own. Their opulent homes

to be looted, their corrupt lives upturned, fear to

grip them all, the spawns of evil; men, women 

and children. The good and the just free to rape

and to kill cheering the smashed windows in 

Jewish businesses and temples ignited, a night

to remember for its triumph over the devil! From

this day forward their evil reign will be dispatched.

 

 

Judge Not

 

Yes, you live in a free and democratic

society which sanctifies your right to

free speech, yet beware if that society has

also trended toward progressivism where

suddenly the icons of years past are imbued

with the unforgivable sin of imperial racism

and all vestiges of pride in their place in

history must be expunged. Feel perfectly

free to state your opinion for it is your

inalienable right to so do, but do make an

effort to restrain your absent credulity on

the runaway issue of transgendered children

let alone the wrath of the LGBTQ-2 community

for failing to recognize their exceptional

entitlement to be addressed in novel non

gendered salutations for their identities as

they see the issue are not to be trifled with.

You will receive yourself the honorific of

fascist, bigot, Nazi, racist and the like in

return. And lest you seek to relieve yourself

in polite company of your opinion linking

terrorism with Islam, the most opulent of

ad honimems will be reserved for your

incautious admissions, Islamophobe!