The rain and reign of terror!

The US's last efforts in the Middle East cost twenty years or about, multiple lives, and more than two trillion dollars. This thing that is happening now is going to cost so much more, it will force everyone to choose sides. There are allies that will no longer be allies soon, this this is being kept out of the media but it's escalating. Tight write dude

You are meaning the last bombing that U.S did of Iraq for oil on the pretext of weapons of mass destruction that U.S officials and pres Trump said they knew weren't in Iraq right.
And now its just U.S and its allies interfering with all those trying to resist Israel and defend Palestine so i do wish that U.S and israel lose their allies to the point it causes ceasefire for all involved.
Peaceful ways ought to overtake Israel's greed for more land, they are only killing for land and resources.
Thanks soo much for your informative input, i hope more side with justice and fairness.

Preventing basics of water and medicine takes cruelty to a new level, causing immense and unnecessary suffering of the Palestinians - and brave journalists and aid workers.
The Zionists are showing their true colours - and they're not pretty.
However, they can only do it because America and the West support them with weapons supplies.
I like your last stanza - it sums it up well.

Hello again dear poet Josh, indeed if you could watch the live graphic videos of children babies crying their heart out from both emotional trauma and physical pain you will reaffirm your concerns and humanitarian thoughts of how a human can allow this to happen to fellow humans . Indeed the super powers fund this genocide instead of enforcing a ceasefire,  for their selfish material interests.
Thanks soo much for your honest humanitarian compassionate comment. Im so glad you're of the many Americans and Jewish rabbis who condemn the genocide for what it is.
And you're so knowledgeable to realise that they are all semites with semitic blood.
They welcomed the jews who since then look for excuses to annihilate them instead.

My wife was brought up in Palestine in the 1950s/60s (her parents ran a church-funded school for Palestinian orphans in the West Bank) and there was a refugee camp just down the road. Of course these camps were established from 1948 onwards, when they had to flee - so 75 years of oppression and disenfanchisement.
And yes, originally, after the horrors of WW2, the Palestinians, a very hospitable people, welcomed the Jews. Little did they know how their kindness was about to be flipped and turned on them.

Great to know, wow your wifey lived in Palestine so she must know things better firsthand .
Keep on having your heart of gold for humanity.

Really powerful. So moved and troubled by this.

You must be those with a good kind heart to be troubled by this. Others in media are mocking their misery and plight so heartlessly.
Thanks soo much for comment,

A heartfelt Poem.

Warm thanks for heartfelt comment.

i just don't understand why people of different religions can't seem to get along. i have no bad thoughts about what people want to worship. some, i have doubts but i am not hating anyone over their religious choices.

Oh dear dear this has nothing to do with religion though the zionists sometimes wrongly refer to bible to justify this, but this is actually got more to do with israelis just doing a genocide and apartheid since ages just and solely for usurping land and resources.
And then we do wonder why U.S is supporting israel so much, is it because of Islamophobia or material interests?
Thanks so much for your comment,

Very dear Zaynab,
In the absence of love, cruelty is the only substitute.

Yeah, the Palestinians loved the jews and that's why they welcomed them. But zionists believe in heavyhanded usurpation not love so they took to cruelty.
Thanks so much for your nice thoughts of love.

Why is it, I keep hearing the hard liners on both sides want to wipe each other off the face of the earth & not entertain the idea of a 'two state solution'? The ideals of land occupation are tied up in religious scripture as well as greed, I am sure. I do not pretend to be an expert on middle eastern affairs but I pick up bits & pieces on the news. It's nearly always the case, sadly, that just one or two people in high places can influence an army! This October 2023 conflict has gone far too far in terms of its death toll & I knew this very early on. Seems nothing can stop it either, politically or morally. It's very frightening & a massive stain on humanity for sure. We, as the most superior & 'intelligent' beings on this planet still have learned absolutely NOTHING about humanity!

Ah dear poet Bill you see the Palestinians only make empty threats of revenge in frustration but you can see the facts in the numbers , over 20000 Palestinians killed for real after Israel always saying it will exterminate them. A far fewer number of occupiers is ever killed by hamas, and that too mostly military. Even on oct 7 more were killed by israeli crossfire.
Palestinians have been begging for a two state solution but why would israel agree when it can use weapons of mass destruction instead and ethnic cleanse them?
War for Land occupation is not mentioned in bible for jews and not in Quran too.
Indeed humanity is failing Palestinians and they suffer tyrannical horrors that even other zionists and jewish rabbis are condemning it.
Thanks soo much for your comment trying to make sense of this atrocity . This genocide is senseless barabaric killings yes.

Peace we want we don't get, War we get we don't want.  Keep on fighting for peace.  Keep on writing.

Palestinians just want to live and their land back but they are being killed for it brutally.  Thanks for your comment.

At times evil just peaks its ugly head not caring whom it hurts and in the end we as a human race will have lost a little piece of ourselves.  

Well said dear, warm thanks for thoughtful comment calling out the evil.

A lot of have sympathy for the Palestinians, most of the world does. It's hard to be believe that the once oppressed are now the oppressors. After watching many interviews done by journalist I'm often baffled at the hatred these groups have each other. These lands have been under constant struggle for centuries and it feels like these last few months are leading to some major.

I pray that there is empathy all around but I have a feeling this will not end well.

Nicely penned.

Trust me dear the Palestinians resentment and resistance against those doing cold blooded genocide and apartheid of their  people is justified.
Warm thanks for your feeling and sympathetic comment for human rights.

The difficult history is really not that difficult. This is a biblical ethnic cleansing and I am disappointed by our country's politicians especially the president and vice president in their complicity of this genocide of the Palestinian people.  
Fantastic job expressing the horror 🫶🏿

This THO!  
"Who but tyrants destroy humble homesteads with warheads?
Poor Palestinians stumble and tumble over their dead."

Yeah biblical is the cover while it is more a materialistic cold blooded genocide for Palestinians  land and resources ahh.
Im glad you condemn those complicit. Thanks soo much for humanity thoughts like yours.