Artist defends caricature showing PM flying plane into World Trade Center, says it represents his ‘disastrous’ handling of US-Israel relations
Times of Israel
Hebrew daily Haaretz’s political cartoon on Thursday stirred controversy by depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flying a plane into one of the World Trade Center towers attacked by al-Qaeda on September 11, 2001.
The cartoon, by the paper’s Amos Biderman, shows the prime minister flying a plane labeled “Israel” into the building, which is flying an American flag. There is no caption explaining the significance of the caricature.
The cartoon was published in the wake of comments made to The Atlantic by an unnamed American official who called Netanyahu “chickenshit” and cowardly, an interview that strained already tense relations between Washington and Jerusalem. Netanyahu on Wednesday rebuffed the criticism of his foreign policy, saying the unnamed official who issued it didn’t hold Jerusalem’s interests as a top priority.
Biderman explained in a phone interview with The Times of Israel that the cartoon implied that Netanyahu was leading to “a disaster in Israel-US relations on the scale of 9/11,” pointing to the prime minister’s “arrogance” and unchecked settlement construction in retaliation for Palestinian terrorism and diplomacy alike.
Israeli Foreign Ministry official Paul Hirschson remarked on Twitter that the cartoon was “gutter press.”
Reached for comment, the US Embassy declined to respond to the cartoon.
Social media users took to Twitter and Facebook to comment on the comic, which some deemed “sick filth,” “provocative” and “loaded.”
A commenter on the Haaretz Hebrew website said, “It’s simply unbelievable that you don’t have any shame in comparing Netanyahu to the mass murderers of 9/11.”
“You’re allowed to incite against the sitting prime minister in a much worse way than there was before the assassination of [prime minister Yitzhak] Rabin,” a user who went by the name of Gilad wrote.
David Kenner, the Middle East editor for Foreign Policy magazine, simply stated “dislike” in his reaction on Twitter.
One representative Facebook user expressed outrage, asking how Haaretz could “PUBLISH THIS GARBAGE?”
“This is good for us”. Nutanyahoo after 911! just Google:”Isreal did 911″. Or see Yahweh :God Of The NWO-Synagogue Of Saturn-YT. Watch till end,and think deeply !
Oh, not at all. We ALL love Nuttyahoo, Bennett, Livni and all the murderous, bigotted murderers in that sick and dying pustule on the Mediterranean that should never has been created, given that it has never had any intention from the very onset and even before, to live in peace with all denominations withing Palestine and its neighboring countries. We DO NOT forget and WE DO NOT forgive!! Commit sepaku Mr. Nuttyahoo and this applies to the”hoolligan bitch”, Livni!
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Maybe people ARE starting to wake up. On Yahoo, I read the saw the cartoon and commented “there’s a lot more truth to that cartoon than the artist would ever admit”. Within a minute there were 8 thumbs up.
I decided to really stir up some sh*t so I furthered my original comment on Yahoo to include “the only thing missing from the picture is the 5 dancing israeli’s standing in Liberty State Park celebrating and documenting the event”. That was about three minutes ago. The article is now completely gone from Yahoo. Imagine that! In the brief time it was up, the amount of apparently aware people posting comments makes me believe that more people know exactly what happened than I ever realized. Great way to cheer up the movement’s spirits. Kudos to the Ugly Truth- truth is the antibiotic that will finally rid the world of this disease.
Love how they quote a FB commrnt at the end to sock-puppeteer the paper’s own opinion.
The article now reappears in the news section but is no longer on Yahoos main page. And reading more comments, I can’t believe how many people know the details of israeli involvement. To post a cartoon like that can only have been a deliberate threat of more attacks.
Whatever the Artists intent was? The Art itself is a spot on virtual appraisal of what I believe happened that horrible day!
I am certain the Artist knows his nation was behind the attack to! Despite his flimsy cover story!
Just another case of the Jews flaunting it in our faces!
Disgusting Bastards!
Not only was Netanyahu the “pilot” of 9/11 but do you not remember him leading protests through the streets just days prior to PM Yitzak Rabin’s assassination carrying a coffin with the PM.Rabin’s name written on it. Netanyahu was a major provocateur in the assassination of PM. Rabin.
MOSSAD did 9-11. Pure and simple. It is a certainty, as any serious investigation would surely reveal. Why do you think there is no hope for a real investigation??
Stupid Americans; Israel is our mortal enemy. We should’ve crushed Israel and made it look like Gaza, only worse!
Interesting… haaretz’s website is down this morning.
I also believe Ehud Barak might have been one the engineers of 9/11 as well.
These two articles are the best in my opinion:
http://www.lostscribemedia.com/news/911-israels-masterpiece/
http://mycatbirdseat.com/2013/08/was-911-an-inside-job-or-a-mossad-job/
Yes, Mark Propheter. You are right to the core. A huge section of their sick damaged brains is remembering all things abominably executed, regardless how many time has passed. Abraham Zapruder is an example of it. His secretary assistant included. “Hold me tight girl. I don’t wanna shake with the Camera when Johnny F. gets those bullets from our paid French Snipers”.
7/7
http://www.philadelphians.50megs.com/tonyordered.html
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But not initially, as I got this;
__The former housekeeper of the prime minister’s residence claims that Sara Netanyahu saw the domestic staff there as constituting a “hygiene problem,” and that she tore up his resignation letter because her husband was “busy with Iran”.__
Then two minutes later, everything came up as above. They have us unsavoury sorts listed, I guess.
So the question is, why did Amos Biderman sketch that cartoon in the first place, if he thought there was no chance in hell of the editor allowing it through, especially in Israel ?
Looking at that needless gossipy bit about Sara above, and the cartoon, I’m beginning to think that Haaretz is wanting an early election, to depose Netanyahu, as he is too reckless for Israel, as in, Strike Three on Gaza in less than six years is obscene beyond words, which has finally shaken the world out if it’s slumber, and Israel will now never recover its standing status quo ante, for all the anti Semitic stereotypes have finally been confirmed even to their ardent supporters.
But I think the cartoonist and the editor miscalculated in using the 911 theme as a metaphor for Israel’s direction, as plenty of us goys see it not as metaphor, but very very differently – a frank admission of the bald truth, which truth it indeed is.
We indubitably know that.
For good measure, into the search engine I entered; sara domestic staff hygiene problem , and Haaretz was the only write up of that goss.