The fallout from Israel’s perfectly legal efforts to enforce its Gaza blockade continues.
The best place to follow developments is at Elder of Ziyon. If you are at all interested in events in Israel and the Middle East, his blog should be on your daily must read list.
Here’s great youtube that’s is making it’s way around the web(with close to 100,000 views when last I checked)
I want to look at the action from a different perspective. Regular readers of Backseat Blogger will have noticed that I post lots of pics. I do that cuz a) It’s my blog and I’ll do what I want with it and b) a picture really and truly is often worth a thousand words.
That viewpoint is never more trenchant than when reading editorial cartoons. Editorial cartoonists are a special breed of artists. They’ve got to be able to distill a complex situation into pictoral terms; they’ve got to do it fast; and they(usually) have to be funny and/or sarcastic.
This is my favourite cartoon so far:
These are pretty good too:
Not all cartoonists favor Israel. Here’s the human piece of shit’s(aka Mr. Fish) take on the situation.
or this one by Carlos Latuff (No link to these anti semites. Google them yourself if you must)
I don’t know who the cartoonist is for this masterpiece.
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