The Razing of Gaza
An eye for an eye ad infinitum37 total reviews
Comment from harmony13
The author's words are heartfelt, heartbreaking and filled with sadness.
This author address each issue with clarity! Thank you for the author's
notes - they are educating. The artwork is awesome and goes well with
the theme and words of this poem. Great Poem - thank you!
reply by the author on 23-Nov-2023
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The author's words are heartfelt, heartbreaking and filled with sadness.
This author address each issue with clarity! Thank you for the author's
notes - they are educating. The artwork is awesome and goes well with
the theme and words of this poem. Great Poem - thank you!
Comment Written 03-Nov-2023
reply by the author on 23-Nov-2023
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Sorry for taking so long to reply to your thoughtful review. The situation in Gaza still haunts me and I am still in disbelief that the world is still just standing by allowing the massacre to continue.
John
Comment from Carol Hillebrenner
No war is good but sometimes they begin when one group of people think they can defeat another group of people. The Hamas convinced the Gazians that they could take Israel and were voted into office. Disaster has proved them wrong, and the poor people suffer for their trust. We all place our sympathy with one side or the other. The children should never be used as pawns in the game of war.
reply by the author on 23-Nov-2023
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No war is good but sometimes they begin when one group of people think they can defeat another group of people. The Hamas convinced the Gazians that they could take Israel and were voted into office. Disaster has proved them wrong, and the poor people suffer for their trust. We all place our sympathy with one side or the other. The children should never be used as pawns in the game of war.
Comment Written 03-Nov-2023
reply by the author on 23-Nov-2023
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Sorry for taking so long to reply to your thoughtful review. The situation in Gaza still haunts me and I am still in disbelief that the world is still just standing by allowing the massacre to continue.
John
Comment from Lea Tonin1
It's truly disturbing what's going on over there in Gaza and the Ukraine. Other countries political parties falling apart. It truly saddens me. A powerful poem with a powerful message. A great submission! Have a great night!
reply by the author on 23-Nov-2023
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It's truly disturbing what's going on over there in Gaza and the Ukraine. Other countries political parties falling apart. It truly saddens me. A powerful poem with a powerful message. A great submission! Have a great night!
Comment Written 03-Nov-2023
reply by the author on 23-Nov-2023
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Sorry for taking so long to reply to your thoughtful review. The situation in Gaza still haunts me and I am still in disbelief that the world is still just standing by allowing the massacre to continue.
John
Comment from John Ciarmello
There are so many issues on one side or another, so many with different views and different thoughts.
Ultimately, we are one, and the sooner enemies and governments realize that the safer we will all become.
It remains sad, depressing, and, for the people involved directly, devastating!
reply by the author on 23-Nov-2023
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There are so many issues on one side or another, so many with different views and different thoughts.
Ultimately, we are one, and the sooner enemies and governments realize that the safer we will all become.
It remains sad, depressing, and, for the people involved directly, devastating!
Comment Written 03-Nov-2023
reply by the author on 23-Nov-2023
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Sorry for taking so long to reply to your thoughtful review. The situation in Gaza still haunts me and I am still in disbelief that the world is still just standing by allowing the massacre to continue.
John
Comment from Tom Horonzy
I know not what to make of this piece
Which side is supported?
Surrounded by Arabs who would destroy the Jewish nation, attacked by over 1000 rockets and no one in Gaza mount an effort to stop the launches? No one knew an event was imminent? And so as the world turns the media continues to make the news not report it.
reply by the author on 03-Nov-2023
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I know not what to make of this piece
Which side is supported?
Surrounded by Arabs who would destroy the Jewish nation, attacked by over 1000 rockets and no one in Gaza mount an effort to stop the launches? No one knew an event was imminent? And so as the world turns the media continues to make the news not report it.
Comment Written 03-Nov-2023
reply by the author on 03-Nov-2023
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Thanks Tom for your review.
Only one side is supported here. The side of peace. All else is hell.
Comment from Eleri
This is a powerful and emotive poem that generally reads well. Without discussing the politics of the issue, you have described the slaughter of the innocents well and I like your rhyming. However, I just wish that you had kept the number of beats per line a bit more constant as this would have made your poem much easier to read out loud with flow.
Good luck in the contest
Eleri
reply by the author on 23-Nov-2023
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This is a powerful and emotive poem that generally reads well. Without discussing the politics of the issue, you have described the slaughter of the innocents well and I like your rhyming. However, I just wish that you had kept the number of beats per line a bit more constant as this would have made your poem much easier to read out loud with flow.
Good luck in the contest
Eleri
Comment Written 03-Nov-2023
reply by the author on 23-Nov-2023
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Sorry for taking so long to reply to your thoughtful review. The situation in Gaza still haunts me and I am still in disbelief that the world is still just standing by allowing the massacre to continue.
John
Comment from Paul McFarland
Setting the politics aside, you poem deplores the death of the innocent. What is needed is divine intervention. God has been a spectator for many incidents such as this. I wish he would get involved.
reply by the author on 23-Nov-2023
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Setting the politics aside, you poem deplores the death of the innocent. What is needed is divine intervention. God has been a spectator for many incidents such as this. I wish he would get involved.
Comment Written 03-Nov-2023
reply by the author on 23-Nov-2023
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Sorry for taking so long to reply to your thoughtful review. The situation in Gaza still haunts me and I am still in disbelief that the world is still just standing by allowing the massacre to continue.
John
Comment from Goodadvicechan
Between war and peace, the choice is obvious.
Why there is still war? In my opinion, no one benefits from war. It only destroys lives but nothing else.
World War II, Vietnamese War, and now Middle East war, people suffer as you describe in your poem.
You have done an excellent job in sharing with us the sad sceneries.
Keep up happy writing
reply by the author on 23-Nov-2023
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Between war and peace, the choice is obvious.
Why there is still war? In my opinion, no one benefits from war. It only destroys lives but nothing else.
World War II, Vietnamese War, and now Middle East war, people suffer as you describe in your poem.
You have done an excellent job in sharing with us the sad sceneries.
Keep up happy writing
Comment Written 03-Nov-2023
reply by the author on 23-Nov-2023
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Sorry for taking so long to reply to your thoughtful review. The situation in Gaza still haunts me and I am still in disbelief that the world is still just standing by allowing the massacre to continue.
John
Comment from estory
This is a tragedy, and you write a compelling piece asking people to care about the victims of this war. There are always victims in war. America killed tens of thousands of innocent Japanese including women and children in the nuclear bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. This was done to spare the lives of American soldiers. So this is a complex situation, as all wars are. We have to remember that it was hamas that started all this by murdering innocent people at a music festival and chopping the heads off of innocent babies, shooting fathers in front of their children. The philistines and the Jews have been fighting for thousands of years. I think it will go on until Jesus separates them. estory
reply by the author on 23-Nov-2023
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This is a tragedy, and you write a compelling piece asking people to care about the victims of this war. There are always victims in war. America killed tens of thousands of innocent Japanese including women and children in the nuclear bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. This was done to spare the lives of American soldiers. So this is a complex situation, as all wars are. We have to remember that it was hamas that started all this by murdering innocent people at a music festival and chopping the heads off of innocent babies, shooting fathers in front of their children. The philistines and the Jews have been fighting for thousands of years. I think it will go on until Jesus separates them. estory
Comment Written 03-Nov-2023
reply by the author on 23-Nov-2023
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Sorry for taking so long to reply to your thoughtful review. The situation in Gaza still haunts me and I am still in disbelief that the world is still just standing by allowing the massacre to continue.
John
Comment from Wayne Fowler
Well done. Good work.
I just wish people held all innocents with the same sentiment - the tens and hundreds of thousands killed in Yemen, the slaughtered Syrians bombed in hospitals and schools, the innocent Ukrainians, the butchered in Uganda, the genocide in Darfur, and of course, the holocaust victims.
Best wishes.
reply by the author on 23-Nov-2023
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Well done. Good work.
I just wish people held all innocents with the same sentiment - the tens and hundreds of thousands killed in Yemen, the slaughtered Syrians bombed in hospitals and schools, the innocent Ukrainians, the butchered in Uganda, the genocide in Darfur, and of course, the holocaust victims.
Best wishes.
Comment Written 03-Nov-2023
reply by the author on 23-Nov-2023
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Sorry for taking so long to reply to your thoughtful review. The situation in Gaza still haunts me and I am still in disbelief that the world is still just standing by allowing the massacre to continue.
John