Devastating Cartoon Of Nazi-Like Netanyahu Fails To Free Palestine

“I would not rule out a Zionist conspiracy to drain anti-Zionist imagery of its emotive power. It would be just like them.”

Jerusalem, November 12 – A caricature of Israel’s prime minister depicting him as a bloodthirsty, swastika-wearing, land-stealing, child-killing rapist somehow fell short of removing Israeli control of territories Jews gained in 1948 and 1967, a disappointed Palestine Liberation Organization official admitted Tuesday.

Jibril Shetheed, a member of the PLO’s Executive Committee, told reporters today the organization has begun to confront the disappointing results of a cartoon likening Binyamin Netanyahu to a monster worse than Hitler, Pol Pot, and Satan, but somehow worse because Hitler had the right idea about the Jews at least. The drawing aimed to foment anger at Israel and move Arabs at large to harm Israeli interests by any means possible, but despite appearing in numerous organs of pro-Palestine and anti-Israel sentiment, appears to have accomplished nothing.

“Reports indicate some head-shaking and grim expressions from a few dozen viewers resulted from the image, but nothing concrete yet,” disclosed Shetheed. “We had hoped to use the caricature to galvanize the Arab and Muslim world to free our homeland from the murderous usurpers, but this evidently was not a successful attempt. The Committee has voted to appoint an investigative commission to determine what may have gone wrong in the concept, planning, and implementation of this initiative so that in the future, better outcomes from such initiatives are achieved.”

The disappointing result of the cartoon proves all the more puzzling, analysts observe, given the effectiveness that such imagery has in the past demonstrated in similar contexts. “This is kind of the bread and butter of Arab discourse over the last century,” noted commentator Alhaf Kaki. “The delicious irony is the use of classic Nazi-era caricatures while calling the Jews Nazis, but deliciousness aside, it didn’t exert the impact its promoters had become accustomed to expecting, given the precedents. That will require some analysis, but I would not rule out a Zionist conspiracy to drain anti-Zionist imagery of its emotive power. It would be just like them.”

Data indicate that Arabs remain no closer today than in May 1948 of freeing Palestine, and in fact face a much worse situation, despite the valiant efforts of cartoonists such as Carlos Latuff. “We’re going to have to up our game,” conceded the Brazilian caricaturist. “A handful of Holocaust-denying cartoons a year might no longer cut it. My colleagues and I must put our collective not-hooked noses to the grindstone to really bring out the rage that will finally liberate Palestine from the Je- I mean the Zionists.”

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