The Hamas War: What the Hell Happened?

by | Oct 12, 2023 | Larry's Observations

Hamas rockets. Image: Fatima Shbair

The Hamas War: What the Hell Happened?

by | Oct 12, 2023 | Larry's Observations

Hamas rockets. Image: Fatima Shbair

I am not going to try to or even attempt to explain or judge or anything. This was and is pure hell on earth and someone or something must pay for it.

I had the next OBS Post all set and was just getting ready to finish it off when total evil hell reared its ugly head and murdered, maimed, utterly destroyed life on this planet as we know it.

I am not going to try to or even attempt to explain or judge or anything. This was and is pure hell on earth and someone or something must pay for it.

You don’t go chopping the heads off babies and call yourself a freedom fighter.

You don’t rape women and call yourself a freedom fighter.

You don’t kidnap and hold hostage elderly women or children and call yourself a freedom fighter.

You don’t shoot defenseless men, women, or children just because you think you are a freedom fighter.

What you are is a depraved murderer, a terrorist, and any number of things not human.

This sums up my feelings:

I feel as if I have been gargling razor blades, my tongue coated with splinters, my heart wrapped in barbed wire.

I am angry that such a thing as this massacre could happen. I realize too that this is not the first time. I would like it to be the last.

Much Love to My Friends,

Larry

Lawrence George Jaffe

Lawrence George Jaffe

Lawrence George Jaffe is an internationally known and an award-winning writer, author, and poet. For his entire professional career, Jaffe has been using his art to promote human rights. He was the poet-in-residence at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage, a featured poet in Chrysler’s Spirit in the Words poetry program, co-founder of Poets for Peace (now Poets without Borders) and helped spearhead the United Nations Dialogue among Civilizations through Poetry project which incorporated hundreds of readings in hundreds of cities globally using the aesthetic power of poetry to bring understanding to the world.

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