These people, <br />who look like good people, <br />like people I pass every day, <br /> <br />smile and give thumbs-up <br />as they hold to the camera a photo <br />of the man who masterminded murder <br />of thousands just like them. <br /> <br />The Absurd is never a stranger <br />in the brutal Theater of War: <br /> <br />Israel destroys Beirut <br />to find a few needles in its haystack, <br />but would they understand someone <br />levelling <i> their </i> neighborhood, <br />to look for a few 'bad apples'? <br /> <br />Would they feel that justified <br />the loved ones blown apart, <br />the screams and amputations? <br /> <br />But these Israeli soldiers, <br />whose grandparents died at Auschwitz, <br />have a trust to protect their people <br />so that horror won't happen again. <br /> <br />Once you start rolling back history <br />to look for a first, just cause, <br />you reach the beginning of time — <br /> <br />meanwhile, there are new <br />provocations, and the carnage <br />goes on, <br />until...<br /><br />Max Reif<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/muslims-display-the-victory-symbol-holding-a-photo-of-osama-ben-laden/
