Cartoons for Hamas

Here’s a cartoon from the Times with an old theme that will be repeated again and again.

The first part of the cartoon shows Hamas retaliating against Israeli aggression by lightly wounding the Jewish child. The Jewish child of course deserved it – an eye for an eye.

Then, hundreds of little religious Jewish boys smash the Palestinian child, inflicting damage completely out of proportion to the threat posed by the sweet Palestinian boy.

And that leaves us where we are now, according to Jeremy Nell whose cartoons appear in the Times.

The grand theme of cartoons like this is, “Support Hamas, help keep the Jews locked in bomb shelters”.

Another side-theme worth nothing is that there is nothing religious about the little Hamas boy. He looks completely secular (and therefore progressive, enlightened, flexible, modern etc). The Jews however, are irritating, stubborn, religious aggressors. They are the ones with the fundamentalist religious problem, not the Islamists of Hamas.  

Comments

[Kate]

This is truly frightening. Our world is so sick..

[DavidPetros]

Hmmm... methinks Jeremy Nell and other cartoonists should do better research into the problems surrounding Israel before they "draw" their conclusions.

They cannot rely on the "free press" who are already themselves promoting anti-Semetism. This is like just keeping the ball rolling and the circle keep turning...

[Evan]

Also, note that the Hamas kid is "brown" while the Israeli is "white". Has the cartoonist swallowed the whole Israelis=evil, white people/Palestinians=good, dark-skinned people nonsense?

[sarah wood]

Israel is behaving like fascists toward its neihbours. Didn't their encounter with the fascist nazi party teach them anything about how wrong oppression and genocide is?

[Ariel]

Yet another fool who believes that genocide is a learning experience for the victims.