Vengeance is whose?

VENGEANCE IS WHOSE?

If we are wronged do we not revenge –
Shylock, Merchant of Venice

We haven’t learned no matter how we yearn
That evil begets vice and good excellence
The wisdom of ages eludes even sages.
Fortunate men are rarely importunate men;
Those who are victimised become victimisers.
The vengeful treaty of Versailles spawned
a malevolent Third Reich dominion
needing victims to re-assert national pride
over which their Nazi jackboots could ride.
Trade Unionists, gypsies and Jews drowned,
choked on the gas of public opinion.
Generating a new generation
prepared to bring the cycle of suffering
through another rotation, the pendulum
swings from pole to pole; tick tock tick tock ting.
All change, the injured become perpetrators
eager to inflict humiliation
Whilst we, who share our blind guilt
with our forefathers winking ignorance
at this perpetration of belligerence,
sightlessly watch resentment build
systematically in West Bank and Gaza.
Suffering excused because the executor
was once executed when we did nothing.
Allowing the Israeli jackboot’s domination
over the Palestinian nation.
Do suicide bombers need explanation?