In the June 25 Maine Sunday Telegram, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Garry Trudeau’s “Doonesbury” comic strip (Page D4) presented a very inaccurate, shameful and insulting moral equivalency, comparing “woke” students being sent to a fictitious college by the present governor of Florida with European Jews during the Holocaust being saved by Oskar Schindler. The college president […]
I write to critique the recent Maine Voices column by Kristen Salvatore (“Senators’ silence on Israeli human rights violations equals complicity,” Feb. 14). Salvatore begins by incorrectly equating Russia’s war with Ukraine to Israel’s right and obligation to protect its citizens against the terrorist actions of Arab Palestinians. Salvatore continues the misstatements by referring to […]
Another View: Cartoon fueled hostility toward Israel
No tanks rolled into Gaza, and Israeli authorities warned Palestinian civilians before taking action in response to Hamas.
By Mark AransonSpecial to the Telegram
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This past Sunday’s (May 23, Page D3) editorial cartoon by Christopher Weyant of The Boston Globe represented a defamatory lie, fueling misperception and hostility toward Israel and Jews. It showed an Israeli tank crushing a Palestinian and an Arab woman nearby reading a message suggesting that Israel’s goal is to build “the state of Israel” on top of Gaza.
Hamas, the terrorist organization that initiated this recent conflict, is the group whose objective explicitly is to expand its Islamist enclave on the Jewish bodies of all Israelis and to totally destroy the Jewish state. This is announced daily by Hamas, and their genocidal intent can be found in its charter.