Month: October 2023

Israeli troops are chafing at the bit
All eager, angry, ready for the fight
Deployed with Gaza looming in its sight
Awaiting for the count-down clock to hit
Time zero, time to launch their main attack
Destroy Hamas completely, every man
And try to bring those who were captured back
Ensure Hamas at no time ever can
Again wreak havoc, such atrocities
And terrorize Israeli fields and towns
A price they’ll pay for their monstrosities
Defeat so bad they’ll never live it down

But wait. Let’s say Israelis see success
Although it took them many bloody days
So many thousand dead, it’s hard to guess
Including hostages but some were saved
What happens then where no one’s left to rule?
The Palestinians left leaderless
The West Bank and the Gazans hate all Jews
Who’ve killed them. Stole their land. T’would be a mess
And Bibi’s Cabinet, religious right
Their goal: to occupy the West Bank too
So they oppose a two-state compromise
They are opposed to Palestine self rule

Tom Friedman comments in the New York Times
Suggesting there’s a better path ahead
For Israel, their present path unwise
Too many of their soldiers will be dead
And they’d be vilified in world press
For every Palestinian that’s killed
The army’s goal, they should forthright express,
Is ‘free the hostages. Their hope fulfilled
Dislodge Hamas control of Gaza Strip
And kill their leaders all, whom they must find
Combine the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
To finally form the State of Palestine

10/23/2023

Thomas Friedman, wise man of the Times
Referring to Hamas’s rape of Israel
Why now, he asks; and why so barbarously?
What does Hamas expect to happen next
And out of that, what then might be their goals?

He, Friedman, then points out negotiations
That have been underway between the Saudis
And Israel to normalize relations there between
Success would be anathema to Hamas
They cannot let it happen at all costs

Hamas has likely trained for many months
And planned this operation secretly
Their troops were told to do atrocities
To force overreaction in response
To force Israel to launch a full invasion
With Palestinians dying by the thousands
So Saudis can’t make peace with Israel

10/11/2024

At dawn’s early light, they’d been dancing all night
‘Twas the Dance Festival at some Ashkelon site
When the shooting began, dancers shouted and ran
But the bullets were faster, killing women and men
Hamas terrorists, disciplined and in order
Somehow they had breached an unbreachable border
Meanwhile by the thousands their missiles rained down
Overloading Iron Dome, leveling Israel’s towns
Hamas firing squads house-to-house wreaking damage
They killed all within after taking some hostage
Many hundreds now dead, many hundreds more dying
The Israelis were taken off guard, no denying
Israeli Intelligence, best in the world
Failed to foretell these actions; epithets have been hurled

It’s the end of day three; Israel’s borders secure
The dead now a thousand; six hundred dead Gazans
PM Natanyahu declared all out war
Called up the reserves with his anger still blazing
He will seal Gaza tight, nothing in nothing out
He will take down Hamas, leaving no one there standing
Terrorizing Hamas, leaving little to doubt

But what of the hostages ransom demanding?
One fifty or more; Bibi stopped in his tracks
Can’t invade, can’t seal tight; no solution in sight
Can’t ignore the one fifty. Israel can’t turn its back
But Hamas has committed such atrocities
Can’t let them continue to exist, running free
They must be demolished, no longer to be

But what of the hostages, keeping them safe?
There is only one way to protect all their fates
‘Though highly unpalatable, it’s negotiate
Solomonic dilemma, whether talk or invade

The way things look now, it will be to invade

10/10/2023

Vacated as Speaker, McCarthy is out
With none to replace him; disfunctional House
The new acting Speaker is Patrick McHenry
With really no guidelines, a job I don’t envy

However, it’s telling, his first act in office
Is kicking Pelosi right out of her office
Against House tradition, Pelosi decries
It’s his retribution for Kevin’s demise

Pat’s first line of business will be to replace
McCarthy as Speaker with some brand new face
McCarthy has stated he’ll not run again
But none among Reps enough votes can attain

So Pat will eventually have to decide
To bargain with Hakim and swallow his pride
A Speaker supported bipartisanly
Is really the only way forward, he’ll see

But will all this happen? I really don’t know
The House will not operate ‘till this does so
Meanwhile there’ll be chaos, the state that it’s in
Ensuring next year that the Democrats win