Pat Oliphant has been a political cartoonist since the 1960s. Many of them have been pretty funny, even if I don’t share his politics. He is a political liberal but he seems to have drifted farther left the past few years. Now, he seems to have gone over the edge. The cartoon above clearly ignores the facts of the Israeli-Hamas conflict to assume facts not in evidence, as lawyers say. Why does the political left assume the role of jihadist ? They certainly would not accept the life style of those living under the rule of Hamas. Does this mean that they consider the Palestinians too stupid to know the difference ?
I don’t know.
The cartoon would have nudge it toward some semblance of realism if he’d drawn jihadists firing Kalashnikovs and rgps from behind the woman and child.
I think it is the idea of equivalence gone insane. You hit the nail on the head: journalists are being imprisoned in the Gaza zone by the Hamas run government.
But you know the story about rope and sales….
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