Easter In The Holy Land by Alfred N.Muggins
By David Kirtley
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31/3/24
The Holy Land has so many holes in it! How can it be Holy now?
Do Israelis try to follow the Ten Commandments too?
Thou shalt not Kill!
Are you listening Benji Netanyahu?
Are you listening Yoav Gallant, and all the others.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me!
Racial purity? Ethnic Cleansing? Security?
Money? Business?
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image!
The Star of David?
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain!
Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy!
Honour thy father and thy mother!
What would they think to all this retributuion, and all this ethnic cleansing?
The International Court of Justice and the United Nations debate whether Israel has been or is committing genocide? We thought that was something only Nazis did?
Were thy father and thy mother (grandparents?) in the Nazi death camps?
Did they fall victim to state terrorism?
What would they think if they knew you were perpetrators?
How many children have you murdered/
How many mothers have you killed, how many fathers?
How many brothers
How many sons and daughters?
Why do you think your God wants you to kill?
Thou shalt not commit adultery?
I don’t suppose you’ve committed this one?
Thou shalt not steal!
I think you have been doing a lot of this!
What is an illegal settlement, a new colony of aliens from afar?
Who covets the hills of Samaria and Judea. How do you take it except by stealing?
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor!
Plenty of that no doubt?
(NB This piece is still probably a work in progress! A quick collection of thoughts!)
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That's a powerful invenctive
That's a powerful invenctive of Alfred's. It's sad that the conflict in Gaza takes him away from other literary projects but good that it fuels his passion for writing. We continue to hope that sense will break out soon in that part of the world.
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