The Number One Country in Threatening World Peace

"Jews is news. Whatever a Jew or better yet the Jewish State, Israel, does, it always grabs the headlines. The double standard to which the world holds Israel is nothing short of supernatural. The fact that two-thirds of all UN resolutions passed since 1990 have condemned Israel is classic illustration of this point. No one seems to care that Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, is surrounded by twenty-two non-democratic, totalitarian Arab states with little or no human rights or free speech. Syria occupies Lebanon for decades, but the world ignores it. Pol Pot kills 1.5 million Cambodians in the 1970's yet the UN never passed one resolution condemning him, yet when Israel starts building a fence to keep out suicide bombers the world goes mad. A 2003 European Union survey listed Israel as the number one country in the world threatening world peace beating out such peaceloving nations as North Korea, Iran, Syria and Libya."

-The Washington Post columnist, Charles Krauthammer

my kaddish is broken

holy, holy, holy, L-rd G-d Almighty,
early in the morning,

too early
doubled over, clenching

her dirge
shall rise to Thee

“my sons..

holy, holy, holy, merciful

“…have mercy on us”

and mighty

how can

G-d in three Persons,

be

blessed Trinity?


holy, holy, holy
the darkness hide Thee
the eye of sinful man thy glory

cannot see

Only Thou art holy; there is none beside Thee,

there is none
there is none
there is nothing


perfect in power
there are no words

in love,

wrenching

and purity

a handful of dirt in a hole in the ground

holy, holy, holy…
L-rd G-d Almighty?
all Thy works shall praise Thy Name, in earth, and sky, and sea

where you left us

holy, holy, holy; merciful

man of sorrows

and mighty

true judge

G-d

as in His high heavens
peace
for us
and all Israel

how can we

say amen?