Anti-Sharon Cartoon Gets Prize
See now, I’m totally fine with bashing Sharon. But this just goes waaaaaaaay too far and, while not overtly invoking any Jewish imagery, can certainly be construed as antisemitic, because it ignores outright the concerns of Jewish people. To suggest that Ariel Sharon bites the heads off of babies, while turning a blind eye to the violence and bloodshed that Israelis (and often American Jews) endure from terrorism, is straight-up biased and unjust. Palestinian children are not the only children who have died in this conflict. There have been instances where Israeli babies were shot by snipers, or even at point-blank range in their beds at night.
Why is it, I have to wonder, that when a Palestinian child is wounded or killed in an Israeli military incursion, Israel is the world’s greatest evil; but when a Jewish child is killed by a Palestinian, or when Palestinians send their own children unto their deaths willingly (and often for financial incentive), it is considered understandable, noble, or even just?
I wonder if a political cartoon exploring that theme would even be considered for such a competition. Perhaps one like this:
Shaw. As if.
But this just goes waaaaaaaay too far and, while not overtly invoking any Jewish imagery, can certainly be construed as antisemitic, because it ignores outright the concerns of Jewish people.
I must disagree. This is not ant-semitic. The cartoon is not even about the Jewish people. It’s about Sharon and his “policies”.
Sharon’s policies ignore outright the concerns of Jewish people.
While Israelis in busses are blown up Sharon could have negotiated the Saudi plan but he didn’t.
While Israeli children were shot in their beds Sharon could have actually fulfilled his obligations under the roadmap but he chose to drop 2000lb bombs on crowded neighborhoods instead.
While Israelis get sniped on the roadways every day Sharon could have been involved in the negotiations of the Geneva accord but he didn’t.
Basically, “eretz israel” – and playing “one-up” with Hamas to see who can be the most hardcore – is more important to Sharon than the lives of countless Israelis.
As to the Cox and Forkum cartoon, it’s not that far off – the Israelis as a whole are getting played like pawns.
The only change I would suggest would be that instead of Carter and Annan standing there, it could have Sharon standing with his arms folded stubbornly across his chest, and his chin stuck defiantly into the air, saying “No Israeli-Palestinian deal for at least 10 years!“
The previous comment is by a fool. The cartoon is a parody of a Goya cartoon and is DEFINITELY antisemitic.
Let me tell you something, jocko: The Arabs aren’t seeking a settlement, they want to annihilate the Jews from the Middle East.
The cartoon implies an elected Jewish leader is cannibalizing Arab kids. Sharon IS going by the Saudi bullshit peace plan that the US State Department is forcing down his throat and has already cost thousands of Israeli casualties.
Ignorance reigns supreme even among stupid Jews.