Hell

Israeli children have never known peace. Palestinian children have always known humiliation. And it astonishes me, every time I watch people argue Mideast geopolitics, that people assume that a generation reared on terror and/or humiliation can possibly function rationally or peacefully. Those are luxuries of peace, and stability. And that is why, for all its faults, I'm very glad I live in the US.

They’ll never have another day of peace.
Israeli children didn’t settle in
Before the rock and rocket, ere the win
In ’67, or the final cease
In British observation.  They have known
A horror all their hours, when a boom
Is able to remove the very room
In which they’re living peacefully.  The grown
And fearful Palestinians, as well,
Have never known a day upon the land
Their father’s father fled, and from it banned.
And very glad am I that such a hell
Is far away in my United States.
For here, at least, we’ve only the debates.

And not the fighting, gore, and ancient hates.