Anything That Moves

How is it possible that Jews,
Israelis, became Nazis
in three generations?
Do they now sympathize
with the Germans who burned their grandparents
in barns and well-made German ovens?
Honest men from Berlin, Frankfurt and little villages
whose orders and fate
were to gun down innocence and innocents.

Today an IDF soldier told me,
the order is to shoot anything that moves.
Women? Yes.
Children? Yes.
Anything that moves.

This bright, young, well-educated Yemenite Jew
who lived in Gaza next door to a grocery store
run by kind grandparents,
and joked with Palestinian neighbors,
men, women, and children.
He found this reasonable:
Shoot anything that moves.
Women? Yes.
Children? Yes.
Anything that moves.

He can be reached at: moc.liamgnull@snoitcudorPmliFeurTtIsI

Jonathan Herrick is culturally Jewish, his great-grandfather a Ukrainian Rebbi, his mother-in-law a certified Auschwitz survivor, and one family member regularly attends Shabbat. A screenwriter and psychotherapist, Jonathan, received a masters in clinical social work from NYU and a B.A. in Zen and Cinema from The State University of New York in Binghamton. Jonathan can be reached at: IsItTrueFilmProductions@gmail.com Read other articles by Jonathan.