PIOUS PLATITUDES
Man’s ingenuity can discover advanced technology
But it is illogical in condoning egregious debauchery,
Love for humanity comes only from God’s Kingdom
For there is where you find true wisdom
 
The recent conflict is a symptom and not the cause
We’re blindly supporting Israel, just-because
No demand for them to adhere to so many UN Resolutions
The Arabs have now drawn their own conclusions
 
 
Pious platitudes are proverbs composed of ashes
Whilst human lives are being shattered, like broken dishes
No mercy for the helpless plebeian’s cruelty
Their lot, guided missiles with impunity
 
 
My dog in this fight is justice for all
All of God’s nations whether big or small,
Worthless are our proclamations of democracy with words by mouth
For there are no sincere deeds and actions, and that is without a doubt!
 

© Sheriff Ali

 
 
Author’s Comments
A vein of good is to be found in every “mind” of evil, thus we should covet not Jonah’s gourd, but rest in Jonah’s God. I support 100% the Israeli people’s right to live without fear in their home-land, but I also support 100% the Arab’s right, namely, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria, to live without fear from Israel’s innumerable munitions provided to them by the United States. Much is being made about UN Resolution 1559 – while no one in the American or the Israeli Governments speak about all of the UN Resolutions that demand Israel’s complete withdrawal from “all” of the occupied territories. This has been the case even before President Bush took office in 2001, the inception of which, said Resolutions, dates back to 1967. The United States is quick to demand complete adherence to UN Resolutions on everyone, except Israel. And unless the United States Government demands that Israel adhere to all of the UN Resolutions, this conflict between Israel and its neighbors, will continue to escalate – eventually bringing total catastrophe to the entire Middle-East region. The United States is big on “braggadocio” about being the world’s only super power, but if they would use that same vituperation in an impartial and even handed manner, much good and stability in that region, would be the result. In a recent Poll, 50% of the Americans say they have sympathy for Israel, and 9% said they had sympathy for Arabs. That is amazing when one thinks how much we exact from the Arabs, whilst giving 3.8billion dollars in aid, annually to Israel.
“We” in the West, who are so cognizant of the deplorable plight of the conditions under which the Palestinian people live and only show 9% mercy for them; “We are nothing short of being capricious despots”. Perhaps we should try and remember John Bunyan’s aphorism; “That which is last, lasts forever”.