Jimmy Carter as a former President
belongs to a very select club whose views should command respect
We should not be so quick to
question or out of hand reject
A man of faith, he is obviously
troubled by the civilian deaths of women and children he sees
But on the issue of Hamas he has
missed the boat or if on it, he is completely at sea
The idea that Hamas is a political
actor as opposed to a terrorist group of thugs
Almost suggests our exPresident is
on some sort of mind altering drugs
All those rockets launched into
Israel can somehow be swept under a blind eye rug
We should also ignore all the
concrete sophisticated tunnels dug
The view that Mr. Carter espouses
is full of experience rot
That if we accord Hamas status as a
civilized force, they will drop their terrorist spots
Carter's accusations of war crimes
on Israel will only seek to isolate it
When the rockets seem to increase
and never seem to quit
Just because the Iron Dome tipped
the scales of death in Israel's favor in spades
Does not mean that Hamas rocket
sites and tunnels Israel does not have the right to degrade
Our former President on this one needs
to walk away from the mike, away from the stage he needs to fade
He needs to spend more time
building homes for Habitat for Humanity always picking the right lumber grade
At last another ceasefire; will it
hold or will Hamas not seeing dead Gazans tire?
And once again launch in the hopes
of Israeli jets putting more Gazans on the funeral pyre
Gaza looks like a Germany World War
II scene--streets covered in rubble
Clock ticking slowly away so Hamas
with more rockets can stir up more deadly trouble
If the ceasefire holds, Hamas will
bide its time waiting for UN relief concrete
To once again start digging tunnels
in an insane attempt to bring Israel to defeat
©
August 6, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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