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US Jews furious over 'Washington Post' cartoon showing Netanyahu punching Palestinian infant
The Jerusalem Post ^ | Friday, July 18, 2014 | Staff

Posted on 07/18/2014 1:11:07 PM PDT by Star Traveler

A prominent American Jewish organization is denouncing The Washington Post for posting an animated cartoon on its YouTube channel depicting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu beating a Palestinian infant.

The caricature is aimed at apportioning blame equally between Israel and Hamas for the suffering of Gazan civilians. It was created by Ann Telnaes, one of the newspaper’s editorial cartoonists.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center declared its outrage over the cartoon. In a statement released to news agencies on Friday, the center’s associate dean, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, said the clip was “disgusting.”

"It is disgusting that The Washington Post would present an animated cartoon that is so profoundly removed from the truth," said Cooper. "Millions of Israeli citizens—men, women, and children—have been forced into bomb shelters and saferooms by thousands of missiles and rockets targeted at them by Hamas terrorists, whose open and avowed goal is the destruction of the Jewish state."

“Even Israel's enemies have recognized that Israel's military countermeasures against Hamas have included phone and text warnings as well as leaflets urging innocent civilians in Gaza to vacate the targeted areas," Cooper said. "It is the Hamas leadership that openly uses the people of Gaza to act as human shields to protect their weapons of mass destruction."

(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; hamas; israel; stisraelhamas; washingtoncompost
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To: Star Traveler

The Washington Post cartoon is a hate crime.

Netanyahu has bent over backwards trying to safeguard human life. Hamas on the other hand puts military ordinance next to elementary schools ... to use children as shields.


21 posted on 07/18/2014 1:40:50 PM PDT by GOPJ (To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize-Voltaire)
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To: Star Traveler
"It is disgusting that The Washington Post would present an animated cartoon that is so profoundly removed from the truth," said Cooper.
You want they should write news that is profoundly removed from the truth? Oh, wait.
22 posted on 07/18/2014 1:41:56 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: nickcarraway

very true


23 posted on 07/18/2014 1:46:32 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Star Traveler

Except for a few years immediately after World War II, anti-Semitism has always been fashionable in high circles and low.

History comes full circle.


24 posted on 07/18/2014 1:49:34 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Star Traveler

I stand with Israel but with very few exceptions like Mark Levin, US Jews and eat it.


25 posted on 07/18/2014 1:52:27 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative
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To: Tzimisce

Loud mouthed LIBERAL Jews may will have voted twice for Obama, but know this.
They and the long-time LIBERAL Jewish groups are Liberal first and foremost, and are among those most virulent in their charges against the USA.
There are countless American Jews, including my own circle who loathe and despise those who constantly find a way to self-criticize.
I’ve come to believe that while Jews are “smart”, they are really quite capable of being “”STUPID”. Sadly, they are quite proud of it.


26 posted on 07/18/2014 2:01:50 PM PDT by CaptainAmiigaf (NY TIMES: We print the news as it fits our views.)
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To: Star Traveler

I hand delivered information to some Jewish acquaintances of ours sharing FACTS on Obama’s support of the Palestenian cause. They still voted for him and proudly kept their Obama sign in their yard. The Jewish support of Obama reminds me of the Jews that supported Hitler. Craziness.


27 posted on 07/18/2014 2:16:53 PM PDT by republicanbred (...and when I die I'll be republican dead.)
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To: Star Traveler

The antisemites/leftist are not even trying to hide it anymore.

They’ll have to comet through this Scot/Irish white trash.


28 posted on 07/18/2014 2:18:58 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
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To: Wilderness Conservative
I stand with Israel but with very few exceptions like Mark Levin, US Jews and eat it.

I'm Jewish and there are many of us on FreeRepublic. Go ahead and pile on. Blame the Jews. Be just like Kerry and Obama.
29 posted on 07/18/2014 2:21:43 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: republicanbred

It doesn’t seem that American Jews are as connected to the situation of survival over there in Israel, as those in the country. But even in saying that, there are those in Israel who might have voted for Obama (if they could have).


30 posted on 07/18/2014 2:23:48 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: republicanbred

“The Jewish support of Obama reminds me of the Jews that supported Hitler.”

Excepting perhaps the occasional well-connected person and exception, Jewish people did not support Hitler in any sort of meaningful numbers.

Hitler was openly anti-Semitic from the start.

Not sure where this stupid idea came from, but I am sick of a-historical idiots posting it.


31 posted on 07/18/2014 2:24:34 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
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To: Star Traveler

Neighborhood Bully - Bob Dylan

Well the neighborhood bully, he’s just one man
His enemies say he’s on their land
They got him outnumbered about a million to one
He got no place to escape to, no place to run
He’s the neighborhood bully

Neighborhood bully, he just lives to survive
He’s criticized and condemned for being alive
Not supposed to fight back and have thick skin
Supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in
He’s the neighborhood bully

Neighborhood bully been driven out of every land
He’s wandered the earth, an exiled man
Seen his family scattered, people hounded and torn
He’s always on trial for just being born
He’s the neighborhood bully

Well he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized
Old women condemned him, said, “He should apologize”
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, ain’t nobody was glad
The bombs were meant for him, he was supposed to feel bad
He’s the neighborhood bully

Well the chances are against it and the odds are slim
That he’ll live by the rules that the world makes for him
There’s a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him given out to every maniac
He’s the neighborhood bully

But he got no allies to really speak of
But he gets, he must pay for, he don’t get it out of love
He buys obsolete weapons and he won’t be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side
He’s the neighborhood bully

Well he’s surrounded by pacifists who all want peace
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease
Now they wouldn’t hurt a fly, to hurt one they would weep
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep
He’s the neighborhood bully

Every empire that’s enslaved him is gone
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon
He’s made a garden of paradise in the desert sand
In bed with nobody, under no ones command
He’s the neighborhood bully

Now his holiest books have been trampled upon
No contract he signed was worth what it was written on
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health
He’s the neighborhood bully

What’s anybody indebted to him for?
Nothin’, they say, he just likes to cause war
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed
Neighborhood bully

What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers?
Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill
Running out the clock, time standing still, neighborhood bully


32 posted on 07/18/2014 2:27:22 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: Tzimisce
US Jews voted Obama in mass.

Now they can kiss my ass.

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That's quite the broad brush that you're working with.

33 posted on 07/18/2014 2:27:22 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Star Traveler

Yet, Jewish voters in the US will continue to support DemocRATS.


34 posted on 07/18/2014 2:30:28 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: Star Traveler
Jews in America vote majority Democrat don't they? I just don't get how they can
support their own destruction. If DEMs had full power they would kill the Jews first.
No, that's not sarcasm.
35 posted on 07/18/2014 2:44:31 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: Arm_Bears

I never understood Jews since FDR let Jews on the St. Louis get shipped back to Europe instead of letting them get off at Ellis Island and get asylum.

GOP has been more supportive of Israel than Dems.

Wilson, FDR, Truman, Clinton, and Obama have all been hostile to Israel.

At one Dem convention they actually passed an anti Israeli plank but then were forced to repeal it.


36 posted on 07/18/2014 3:00:57 PM PDT by Zenjitsuman (New Boss Nancy Pelosi)
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To: Star Traveler

But, but, I thought the main stream media was owned by the Jews?/s


37 posted on 07/18/2014 3:52:03 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Star Traveler
The Washington Compost now has even more in common withe evil Nazis.

Will they run these "cartoons" next week?

Let us be clear: hatred of the Jews is Satanic.

American "Liberals" are nothing but fascist, godless lemmings who are the wide road to Hell itself.

38 posted on 07/18/2014 4:00:09 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: trisham; CaptainAmiigaf; stillfree?

I’m tired of arguing with the smartest people in the room.

I think it’s HIGH TIME these people start getting what they want.

They want Israel a smoking radioactive cloud? Okay.
They want the government to enslave them? Okay.
They want a military dictatorship? Okay.

Sucks that they’re dragging me to Hell with them, but at least I won’t be there alone.


39 posted on 07/18/2014 9:35:05 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: Star Traveler

The master at PsyOps (Psychological Operations) was Goebbels. He did say over and over again: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
He would also say that “the lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

http://www.corson.org/archives/campaigns/PE2012_14.htm


40 posted on 07/18/2014 9:40:15 PM PDT by Rome2000 (OBAMA STYLE)
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