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Credit Garry Trudeau. Third panel refers to Irgun terrorist group leader and Likud founder (and israeli pm) Menachem Begin.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So 40+ years of the same thing. Good job Israel

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

This didn't start in the 80s.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I always liked Doonesbury. Gary Trudeau was never afraid to call out a little bullshit, heavy on the satire.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why would someone think it's doctored?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It is manipulated to better fit phone screens, the panel was a single row originally. You can see the splice if you look closely.

Plus many incurious people still hold Israel with such regard to think that all of this is a recent escalation instead of status quo policy since Ben-Gurion.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nice to see Trudeau weighing in. For better or worse, he always seems at his best when there's an absurd war on.

Not that not all wars are absurd; just that some are more horrific in some dimensions than others.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is from 40 years ago...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

Despite that, I'm surprised so little has changed. "Terrorism" wasn't the big bad until 9/11.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who saw that. Unless that's a caricature of someone specific, that is...uncomfortable, to say the least.