Some Of My Friends Are Zionists

The hour of their crime does not strike simultaneously

for all nations: this explains the permanence of History. Cioran

Some of my various friends are Zionists.

Maybe I should say, Zionist People.

We must never forget, they are people,

though they seem to forget that of others.

I play with these people regularly,

and afterward go for a drink.

The games are close and we are close.

We love each other and clink glasses.

There’s no point in being upset with each other

over world views that are disparate.

We were brought up to feel and think as we do:

some of us, fairly, egalitarian; 

others in favor of ethnic cleansing.

What profit ethit* a man if he get 

in a pissing match with a Zionist,

and come away feeling excoriated,

or alternatively, victorious, especially

when each know what each thought?

In truth, not at all,

nor the world, neither.

Love alone may persuade,

or sufficient Israeli atrocities.

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*An agglomeration intended to promote satori.