Initial Thoughts

 

The terrible attack by Hamas on October 6th 2023 was committed by a 

fundamentalist group who knew what they were doing, and what  the 

consequences would be.  But I doubt that they anticipated the extent 

of the response.  Hamas is a terrorist group, but Israel is a state - 

with a state's power - backed by the Americans.

 

I have to ask myself: what would the Jews who suffered under the 

terrible reign of the Third Reich think if they could see the death 

and destruction in Gaza? An impossible question certainly. 

But my first poem Passover suggests a poetic answer. 

 

I also offer two other poems.