Michael Ramirez, as usual, gets to the heart of the “freedom flotilla” incident. It’s worth noting that the drawing on the right side of the panel could just about be a screen grab from a video of the pro-Palestinian thugs beating Israeli troops as they rapelled, one by one, on to the deck of the Mavi Marmara. Click to enlarge:
UPDATE: For those who didn’t understand what I was talking about, here is a screen grab–one of many that could have been chosen–from a video of the violence on board the Mavi Marmara that we posted last night. Ramirez obviously based his drawing on the facts of the incident:
Most political cartoonists just indulge their prejudices. Michael Ramirez actually knows what he is talking, or drawing, about.
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“Arise and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.” Winston Churchill
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