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Holy Carp. Oliphant?

Works for me. Here's the picture:

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And yes, this cartoon is rediculous.


ETA: By the way, the small figure on the right says "Gaza" on it.
 
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OK, I way to thick to figure this out on my own without labels. What's the headless soldier s'posed to represent?
 
Probably (due to the raised right arm) a Nazi, because EVERYBODY knows "the Zionists are just like the Nazis", you know.
 
madurobob said:
OK, I way to thick to figure this out on my own without labels. What's the headless soldier s'posed to represent?
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Y'know, I am not sure.

My first impression was that the raised arm and goose-step was supposed to invoke Nazis, but . . . looking at it, I went to a WTH?! conclusion. Which is to say, I really don't know. But I could easily see this image as a poster put up around, oh, say . . . 1938 or so.

Is it me, or is it a WTH?! moment?

I'm going with WTH?! for now.
 
NoZed Avenger said:
Y'know, I am not sure.

My first impression was that the raised arm and goose-step was supposed to invoke Nazis, but . . . looking at it, I went to a WTH?! conclusion. Which is to say, I really don't know. But I could easily see this image as a poster put up around, oh, say . . . 1938 or so.

Is it me, or is it a WTH?! moment?

I'm going with WTH?! for now.
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Yeah, the goose-step makes it look like a nazi, but then what's with the sword? And why does the Star of David look like a shark on a unicycle? WTF is going on in this cartoon?
 
NoZed Avenger said:
Y'know, I am not sure.

My first impression was that the raised arm and goose-step was supposed to invoke Nazis, but . . . looking at it, I went to a WTH?! conclusion. Which is to say, I really don't know. But I could easily see this image as a poster put up around, oh, say . . . 1938 or so.

Is it me, or is it a WTH?! moment?

I'm going with WTH?! for now.
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Me too. I tried to see "Nazi" in there, but I knew any middle school illustrator could draw a more convincing headless Nazi soldier. So, yeah, WTF?
 
I think the soldier is the U.S. (helping Israel out by holding it up and pushing it forward).
 
Okay, it looks like a headless muscle-boy goose-stepping while pushing a barracuda's head superimposed on a Star of David on a unicycle that's chasing a Gazan.

I was going to remark that the use of the Star of David marks it as anti-semitic, else he'd have used an Israeli flag.

But really, the thing is completely incoherent, beyond saying, "Israel bad, Gaza victims." It looks like a parody of the kind of anti-Israel cartoons you see in the middle eastern Muslim press.

And where's his trademark wisecracking penguin?
 
tomwaits said:
Works for me. Here's the picture:

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And yes, this cartoon is rediculous.
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Ridiculous, eh? Not really. Political cartoons make a habit of over exaggerating to highlight or make a point. That is the entire purpose of caricature.
ETA: By the way, the small figure on the right says "Gaza" on it.
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Well, it's a little, insiginficant piece of real estate.

I find the little baby carriage wheel on the Star of David humorous in the term of absurd.

By the way people, the Wehrmacht of 1936-1945 vintage is not the only armed force that goose stepped. Also, the Nazis didn't use swords to fight. Last time I saw, in person, the changing of the guard at the Russian War Memorial in West Berlin, the goosestep was what was used by the Red Army Soldiers doing their ceremonial thing.

The headless IDF (or is it the heedless IDF?), not sure which Oliphant is trying to depict, is as worthy of ridicule as any armed force on the planet. Why should they get special, kid glove treatment from the press?

My own armed service took its share of assholiness from the press, and probably will continue to do so as time goes on.

Too easy a target.

And where's his trademark wisecracking penguin?
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Good question. Maybe he wasn't impressed with Oliphant's muse this time. :p

DR
 
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Obviously political cartoons are meant as caricatures, but this goes beyond caricature into Dada territory. A Star of David shark on a unicycle being pushed by a headless goose-stepping soldier with a sword? I mean, seriously, WTF?! It just seems like random images.
 
I'm going to say that the sword is a phallic symbol. Just because.

Ah, and the unicycle means that Israel is precariously balanced and remains steady by military force, which is generally random because the soldier has no head, and goes after useless little nobodies.
 
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Ah, and the unicycle means that Israel is precariously balanced and remains steady by military force, which is generally random because the soldier has no head, and goes after useless little nobodies.
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Hey, that's quite good. I knew I should have gone to symbolism school
 
Storm in a Teapot, it seems:

[URL="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1074062.html"]The fanged Star of David that preyed on Gaza
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Last update - 11:47 26/03/2009

Jewish groups slam 'hideously anti-Semitic' cartoon on Gaza
By Haaretz Service and The Associated Press

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, the group founded by a famed Nazi hunter which has more than 400,000 members in the United States, says the cartoon denigrates and demonizes Israel and mimics the Nazi propaganda.

It called on The New York Times and other media groups to remove the cartoon from their Web sites. [More]
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This guy should learn simplicity. That's what made the Mohammad bomb cartoon so great. Everyone understood it without having a degree in symbology.

Yes that was a Boondock Saints reference.
 
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