Israel
and its friends in Washington and New York never miss the opportunity
to exploit the news cycle to tighten the screws a bit more, rendering
any criticism of the Jewish state unacceptable or even illegal. Israel’s
Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon has been persistently demanding that what he describes as anti-Semitic speech
be criminalized. Danon declared that “The time for talking and having a
conversation is over. What Israel and the Jewish community around the
world demand is action – and now.”
How
exactly Danon would enforce his definition of acceptable speech is not
clear, but the demands to eliminate any negative commentary regarding
the holocaust or on Israel and/or the behavior of diaspora Jews have
been promoted for some time, resulting in laws in Europe that inflict
harsh punish on those who dare to speak out. The latest incident in the
campaign to eliminate the First Amendment in America took place oddly
enough on the pages of the New York Times, which, in its
international edition, ran a cartoon by a Portuguese cartoonist showing a
dog with the face of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a leash
leading a caricature of Donald Trump wearing a yarmulke and a blind
man’s glasses. The Netanyahu-dog had a tag on its collar featuring a
Star of David.
There
are several ways to interpret the cartoon. It is, of course, an insult
to dogs to have them depicted in such a fashion as to suggest that they
might behave like the monstrous Israeli Prime Minister. No dog would
sink so low. One observer,
commenting from a dog’s point of view, noted that “We canines share
that saying that ‘the eyes are the window to the soul.’ Look into our
eyes and you’ll see love and trust. Look into Netanyahu’s eyes you see
cunning and deceit so why stick his head on our body?”........http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/whats-in-a-cartoon/
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