# Twenty to One

**Published by:** [Compossible - that which can live together](https://paragraph.com/@compossible/)
**Published on:** 2024-11-30
**Categories:** poetry, history, palestine, israel, jewish
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@compossible/twenty-to-one

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"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."(Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, circa 431 B.C.E)…They killed twenty Poles(women and children)Piled their bodies upRight on that very same spot Where we had knifedThe Nazi bastard(turned out he was humanafter all) It was the very next dayI guess a pithy way to say You are worth So very little Compared to usEvery deathShall be repaid Twenty-foldIn bloodAnd terror Message received(though we kept on fighting)A terrible lesson learnedPassed overWith the flame thatFlickered and nearly diedA ‘gift’ to those fewSurvivors that made it Through the horrorTo the homelandThe gift that keeps on givingFor new generations Though this time A different tribe Of God’s children Shall learn The hard ways of hate(or indifference)At the hands of the strongThe weak Who now suffer What they mustWho must now Suffer usOr die tryingStatistics on Palestinians and Israelis killed over time (since September 2000 and prior to October 07 2023 in Gaza): https://statistics.btselem.org/en/all-fatalities/by-date-of-incident?section=overall&tab=overview Minors and children killed after January 2009 (post the the First Gaza War aka Operation Cast Lead or the Gaza Massacre) and prior to October 07 2023 (Palestinian 1076, Israeli 23):Suggested Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising#JewishThe Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: An act of desperate resistance by Polish JewsIt is one of the most emblematic events of World War II. On April 19, 1943 a handful of Jewish fighters revolted against Nazi barbarism that had methodically undertaken the deportation and extermination...https://www.france24.comOpinion | How terrorism helped found IsraelBruce Hoffman explores terrorist activities of two Jewish resistance groups in their bid for a Jewish state.https://www.washingtonpost.comMowing the Lawn: The Genocide IndustryFinance editor Ed Ongweso on Israel's strategy to weaken Palestinians' ability to resist through the use of technology and water deprivation.https://logicmag.ioRead Part V of Sefirah – Canto for David:Ark"I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth." (Genesis 6:13)https://paragraph.xyzRead Part VII of Sefirah – Canto for David:Mensch & MeatWe gave bloody battle Then violent death To the meathttps://paragraph.xyzAI generated image, "The weak suffer what they must"

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