Too bad your history was so brief. If you want to know why the Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims might be having a problem with Jews, check out that inconvenient Balfour Declaration of 1917, where “Great” Britain stole land from Palestine with the intent that the Jews that settled there would only occupy a well-delineated portion and would not take any more land from Palestine. So how did that work out? Hypothetically speaking, would you be just a little pissed off if you lived in Lawrence and some Quantrill guy came into town to run you and your neighbors out of your houses, burned them down, stole your oxen and horses, burned your crops, … hypothetically?
This is an action- packed column with some good cartoons, Lee. The D. Trump mischief makes it easy to be on the side of truth, justice and the American way (and the Ukraine War has an obvious villain) but with the Israel/Palestine war, it's not so easy to take sides. My personal view of Israel has changed; the amount of death and famine is out of proportion and to see the images is heartbreaking.
PS Your little Mom and her broken TV work around is so funny. She deserves a new TV for Mother's Day!
Great column, Lee. Very thought-provoking. I remember the Munich Olympics, but failed to connect the dots as you've done... and I definitely didn't remember/know that Netanyahu's brother died in the "Raid on Entebbe" - that definitely could explain Netanyahu's motivations. (But as we know - and you've shown in many comics - one person's "motivations" may not be the best course of action for a country.)
I must admit the whole situation has me flummoxed. I have Jewish friends, of the boomer generation and older for the most part, who are, not surprisingly, solidly behind Israel although none of them care for Netanyahu and say he should be removed. These are people who are for the most part wild eyed liberals, so it's just odd to me that in this case the conservatives are behind Israel.
My progressive gentile friends, particularly the younger ones, are generally on the side of Palestine and some of what they're saying borders on antisemitism. I've tried to explain to them that plenty of Israelis don't support Netanyahu or agree with what he does.
I really think that the United States and the other countries involved in arranging the establishment of the state of Israel should have given up their OWN land, not somebody else's. My Jewish friends tell me that Jews have lived in the area where Israel was established for thousands of years, but I can't help wondering if they wouldn't have been safer someplace else.
Too bad your history was so brief. If you want to know why the Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims might be having a problem with Jews, check out that inconvenient Balfour Declaration of 1917, where “Great” Britain stole land from Palestine with the intent that the Jews that settled there would only occupy a well-delineated portion and would not take any more land from Palestine. So how did that work out? Hypothetically speaking, would you be just a little pissed off if you lived in Lawrence and some Quantrill guy came into town to run you and your neighbors out of your houses, burned them down, stole your oxen and horses, burned your crops, … hypothetically?
This is an action- packed column with some good cartoons, Lee. The D. Trump mischief makes it easy to be on the side of truth, justice and the American way (and the Ukraine War has an obvious villain) but with the Israel/Palestine war, it's not so easy to take sides. My personal view of Israel has changed; the amount of death and famine is out of proportion and to see the images is heartbreaking.
PS Your little Mom and her broken TV work around is so funny. She deserves a new TV for Mother's Day!
Great column, Lee. Very thought-provoking. I remember the Munich Olympics, but failed to connect the dots as you've done... and I definitely didn't remember/know that Netanyahu's brother died in the "Raid on Entebbe" - that definitely could explain Netanyahu's motivations. (But as we know - and you've shown in many comics - one person's "motivations" may not be the best course of action for a country.)
I must admit the whole situation has me flummoxed. I have Jewish friends, of the boomer generation and older for the most part, who are, not surprisingly, solidly behind Israel although none of them care for Netanyahu and say he should be removed. These are people who are for the most part wild eyed liberals, so it's just odd to me that in this case the conservatives are behind Israel.
My progressive gentile friends, particularly the younger ones, are generally on the side of Palestine and some of what they're saying borders on antisemitism. I've tried to explain to them that plenty of Israelis don't support Netanyahu or agree with what he does.
I really think that the United States and the other countries involved in arranging the establishment of the state of Israel should have given up their OWN land, not somebody else's. My Jewish friends tell me that Jews have lived in the area where Israel was established for thousands of years, but I can't help wondering if they wouldn't have been safer someplace else.