Title: Genocidal
Published: Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
Date: Oct. 10, 2014
About this cartoon: Based on the relative body counts, many people across the world feel Israel had perpetuated a great horror across Gaza in the most recent war, with some even using the term "genocidal." But this response -- highly manipulated and encouraged by Hamas via the media -- ignores several conditions, including Hamas starting the conflict by shooting thousands of rockets at Israel and kidnnapping and killing three Israeli teens, Hamas deliberately targeting Israeli civilians while Israeli retaliation forces tried to warn Palestinian civilians to stay out of harm's way (those people were often ordered back to their deaths by Hamas leaders), Hamas placing its weapons and rocket launchers in places (such as hospitals, schools and mosques) that would maximize Palestinian civilian deaths during an Israeli response to aggression, and Hamas' very charter and mission, explicitly calling for the killing of all Israeli and all Jews, men, women and children -- if that's not genocidal, what is?