Posted on 09/03/2014 7:02:32 PM PDT by Nachum
Within the growing body of work in the field of Comically Erroneous Political Comparisons, Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell just distinguished himself as a rising star. Heres a Sept. 1st cartoon by Bell, an artist who clearly doesnt want his creative expression to be fenced in by stubborn political and geographic realities.
Well take a wild stab, and work under the assumption that Bells cartoon is inspired by the recent row concerning Israels announcement that its taking control of 1000 acres of land near Gvaot in the Gush Etzion region of the West Bank.
Now, heres a size comparison between Israel and Russia. This of course doesnt include Greater Russia the boundaries of the country after they took over, by military force, the Georgian provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Crimea and sections of eastern Ukraine. See if you can spot the difference between Israel and Russia, or even just spot Israel.
Indeed, Russias newly acquired territory of Crimea, at just over 10,000 square miles, is, by itself, larger than Israel.
Moreover, while Russia continues to expand its borders, Israel has continued to voluntarily relinquish land for peace (the Sinai, Gaza, Southern Lebanon and much of the West Bank) since their defensive war in 1967.
Bells blurring of such obvious and intuitive differences between the recent territorial histories of Israel and Russia is par for the course at the Guardian, where such artful obfuscations over Israels clear moral advantages represent one of their signature ideological ticks.
Maybe that’s his roundabout way of admitting that both Bibi and Putin have made Obama look like an impotent chump over and over again. Neither one scares very easily. Both think for the long term.
He forgot to compare the Israelis to Nazi Germany.
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