To know my deed...

 

'To know my deed . . .'

 

Clad in his bright, shining uniform

The general faced the tv camera

And pronounced his verdict:

 

'We don't bomb civilians, we bomb Hamas' -

For Israel is a civilised state

Attacked by barbarians driven by hate.

.

I guess that this man wants to ask:

Why do you not see that we are fair –

And the enemy is foul?

 

For once more the Jew is the untermensch.

The years were swept away like grime, no doubt,

When desperate souls entered Kfar Aza.

 

To find – one more KZ* strewn with bodies.

An unfathomable nightmare of men

Damning themselves by their own foul deeds.

 

But the fair, it seems, can tear a world apart

And still be fair –

Hard not to  hear Macbeth's lament:

 

'To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself.'

 

*German concentration camp