Proportionate?
Four children playing marbles is an act
Of terrorism? What of families
Forced to sleep in tents? The authorities,
Judge quite proportionate to the fact,
Launching a punitive conflagration
In order to maintain security,
The long-term future and the purity
Of a divinely appointed nation.
The irony of a pogromed-people
Driving others into ghettos, where they
Will survive and simmer, then find a way
Of striking back as soon as they’re able.
Observed in the breach, professed human rights
Spurned as rhetoric of anti-Semites.
D. A.