Day: February 8, 2024

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Reflections on My Inner Strength

25 October, 2023

The war in Israel – Day 18

The first few days there was shock in the air. We might have to go in the mamad 1 at any time.

I didn’t want to leave my apartment, and the easy access to my mamad. Thank God, our city has been quiet, and I gradually developed the inner strength to…leave my apartment building. Then, to be able to go to my daughter’s home nearby. Days later, I felt strong enough to go to the mall. And days later, even to a nearby town.

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Mindy Sager Dickler February 8, 2024

The Soviet Rhetoric (After Mayakovsky)

A Russian Immigrant once asked Ilhan Omar:
“O Congresswoman, do you have to mar
all things Israeli? Your wrathful tweets
do lack a balanced view of the Near East.”

His pleas ignored, A Russian Immigrant then turned
to the elected whipper-tweeter from Detroit:
“I want to know, Representative Tlaib,
do you rehearse or is it all ad lib?”

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Maxim D. Shrayer February 8, 2024

The Poets of Hamas

The poets of Hamas bemoan the death
of one of their own. Villanelles and sonnets
deny that men from Gaza violated Jewish girls
time and again, in gangs, with rabid zeal. They
call it Zionist “lies” and “smokescreen.” Bloody rhymes
with bloody Jewish bodies.

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Maxim D. Shrayer February 8, 2024
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