Pat Oliphant by Pat Oliphant

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Fairportfan said, 8 months ago

Here’s another one that’s gonna catch some … ummm … Interesting comments.
HUMPHRIES said, 8 months ago

fairportion, you are indeed a charitable person in your post.
Fairportfan said, 8 months ago

I didn’t say if i was for or against it. Just that some people were likely to take off on it - people on both sides.
cartwrights said, 8 months ago

Yeah, Pat’s going to hear about it on this one.
bpaulwhite said, 8 months ago

I hope you are proud of yourself for drawing a cartoon that will unquestionably be reprinted on anti-semitic, radical islamic and white supremacist websites for years to come. The best that can be said about it is that it is inflammatory and biassed. the truth is, it is just plain antisemitic.
harpaclark said, 8 months ago

Given all the blatantly racist depictions of Arabs done by Oliphant over the years, I suppose this just shows him to be an equal-opportunity bigot?
etocme said, 8 months ago

God gave the Israel all of the land…including Gaza.
HUMPHRIES said, 8 months ago

etocme … and you know the inside story?
packer31 said, 8 months ago

As a political cartoon, it’s excellent. It meets all the requirements for creating symbols and communicating a message. It’s one more nail of delegitimization. Of course, we’ll ignore the Hammas goal of eliminating Israel; we’ll just expect Israel to fade quietly into history. Bpaulwhite is right: this will become a new classic of anti-Semitism cartooning and will be joyfully reproduced. Why couldn’t the Germans have been more efficient?
Stopthehate said, 8 months ago

Packer, you made a good point regarding the elements of a political cartoon. However, this one seems to be overkill with so-called “symbolism”. I don’t get many of the aspects of what Oliphant is trying to depict, except for showing Israel as a monstrous country…oh, and let’s not forget the religious aspect with the Star of David…country/religion…Hmmm…who took out the World Trade Center and innocent people in Mumbai and so on and so on….Must be a country that eludes me…or is it fanatical zealots that love to be incited by a “cartoon” like this one. Sorry, I don’t get it!
joeydaninja said, 8 months ago

I, on the other hand, mourn that Ehud Barak is allying himself with Bibi Netanyahu. I think Tzipi Livni would be better for Israel and the world.
maranick said, 8 months ago

Binyamin Netanyahu: “If the Arabs put down their weapons today there would be no more violence. If the Israelis put down their weapons today there would be no more Israel.
Think about it…”

Have you looked a map?
lalas said, 8 months ago

BPW – The names Israel and Gaza themselves are inflammatory.

The way you put it, there’s no difference between being anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli? I certainly have no issues with the Jews but Israeli policies bug the cr@p out of me.
diaster said, 8 months ago

Perhaps the pendulum of American opinion is now swinging against the Israeli far right. I was and am sympathetic with Israel in that no country can or should tolerate being rocketed on a daily basis. However, the pressure cooker that is Gaza is entirely the result of Israel’s past polices. The charge of Antisemitism and the shared collective guilt for the Holocaust just does not have the same relevance to me anymore.
baravelli said, 8 months ago

Perhaps the reason he has no head is because it was chopped off by one of those harmless radical groups for one of their videos.
(Remember Daniel Pearl? He worked for a newspaper too!)
When these cuddly underdogs (all 500,000,000 of them) are finished with the Jews they will be coming after America next.
jmahler said, 8 months ago

The Nazis wanted to wipe out all Jews, homosexuals, Gypsies, the mentally challenged, among others. Israel is defending itself against a group that is recognized as a terrorist organization by the US, European Union and most of the world. I think the difference is quite clear.
ninelives said, 8 months ago

Throughout history, the oppressed have become the next oppressors.
dtroutma said, 8 months ago

Balfour and Peel Commission both called for Arab AND Jewish “homelands”. The tactics of the current Israeli “right-wing leadership” is on display, but not necessarily the feelings of all Israelis, just like bin Laden is in no way all Arabs, or Muslims.

Show me a population incapable of prejudice or brutality, and I can assure you it isn’t “human”.
jackskuatt said, 8 months ago

Even cartoonists can be brainwashed by the media. Let’s see 20% of the world is Muslim, .01% is Jewish. The news media makes the most $ pandering to whom? Grow up and open your eyes. When you are surrounded 100:1 by those trying to kill you daily, you will do whatever it takes to survive. Remember England killed 40,000 civilians in 2 days in the bombing Dreseden 12 days before the Nazi surrender. War is war. Grow up. Don’t expect Israel to eat daily bombing and do nothing. The “occupation”; that the Arabs speak of is the existence of Israel. The Jews have been the predominant group in Israel for 3,000 years. The Arabs have never controlled it. You can’t give something back to someone who never had it. The powder keg in Gaza is the direct result of Egypt’s refusal to accept Gaza as Egypt for fear of the Muslim Brotherhood’s control. Israel never wanted Gaza or the West Bank, but neither did Egypt or Jordan. Jordan slaughtered 100,000 Palestinians for fear of an uprising prior to the ‘67 war. We never heard any outrage from that. It is ok if Muslims kill Muslims.
DOUG WAGNER said, 8 months ago

Israel left Gaza. The Palestinians voted in Hamas, who preach only the total destruction of Israel and fire daily rockets and mortars from Gaza. All Israel asks for is peace, and Oliphant draws bleeep like this? What an ignorant racist. I’m dropping his garbage from my daily email.
HUMPHRIES said, 8 months ago

jackskautt, 135AD - the Romans essentally destroyed Judah and enslaved or deported most of it’s population.
gayeko said, 8 months ago

HEY PAT ELEPHANT!
YOUR LATEST CARTOONS SHOW SIGNS OF “NON COMPOS MENTIS!”
IMPORTANT YOU TAKE YOUR MEDS.
4/25/09
tracht47 said, 8 months ago

I think Oliphant is suggesting that both sides are in danger of falling off the cliff.
JF88 said, 8 months ago

To Pat Oliphant: God promised Abraham, “I will bless those who bless thee, and curse him that curses thee.” God has you in his sights…You are an evil man.
hblakely said, 8 months ago

The bravest cartoon I’ve ever seen in an American newspaper. I guess when you’ve had enough you’ve just had enough. But of course, he’ll be called that most feared of things, an anti-semite. I hope he comes out of this alright.
NebulousRikulau said, 8 months ago

The Israeli Government made a big mistake many years ago.
They expected the Palestinians to live peacefully in their ghettos the way the Jews did through most of European history.
If the Palestinians aren’t sufficiently grateful for being allowed to live within Israel after their homes have been taken from them, they MUST be evil.
rolls eyes
dtroutma said, 8 months ago

Humph: 135 +/- AD- better be careful about citing real history- it confuses folks.
Starre69 said, 8 months ago

I think that Mr. Oliphant has done what he set out to do, he has poeple talking and expressing their opinion on a touchy subject. Impressive
dickanders said, 8 months ago

If I built my house on my neighbor’s land, we would not have peace between us. If I held up delivery of food, prevented my neighbor from selling his produce until it was rotten, and restricted his movement on his own property, we would not have peace between us. The Jews are a wonderfully inventive people. They must find a better way to make peace with their neighbors than by dropping cluster bombs in their neighborhoods.
HonestAbe said, 8 months ago

This cartoon ignores reality and is Jew bait. Oliphant has out done even Nazi and Arab political propaganda. To be sure if the goosestepping storm troop had a face- it would feature a hooked nose!!
cdward said, 8 months ago

It is neither anti-semitic nor anti-Israel to want and expect better from the state of Israel. While I find this comic rather provocative, criticizing Israel’s actions is perfectly legitimate.

JF88, this is not cursing Abraham either. Oliphant is expressing his disgust with Israel’s actions over against Gaza – agree or disagree, it’s not evil.
vladimirtsepes said, 8 months ago

I would like Oliphant create a comic
of a Gazan(arab) with a suicide vest
chasing and killing women and children on a bus, or aiming a rocket at a kindergarden I am sure he could come up with something . Lets see the reaction ?WE EXPECT BETTER FROM THE HUMAN RACE!
baravelli said, 8 months ago

Let’s try this again…
Close your eyes and imagine a group,connected to the Mexican government or not,firing rockets from Juarez Mexico into El Paso Texas. After a day or two even a nice guy like Mr. Obama is going to have to do something. He warns them but they say they are willing to die and are not afraid of the big bully. Days go by and rockets are falling all over that part of Texas forcing people to sleep in bomb shelters. After another few days Mr Obama says he has had enough and says he will have to send his troops in if it doesn’t stop. The rockets increase and they say they have no intention of stopping and it’s America’s fault.
When the troops and jets finally move in and are met with fierce resistance, how many innocent Mexicans would die? A thousand? In the first 10 minutes.
The panicked people would then rush to the US border to get away from the craziness but guess what? The border would be sealed!
By the way the rockets are still falling on Israel but that doesn’t seem to matter. Only Israeli bombs are worth mentioning.
baravelli said, 8 months ago

Sorry for all the typos the key board is getting smaller and smaller
baravelli said, 8 months ago

Sorry for all the typos the key board is getting smaller and smaller
laurag17 said, 8 months ago

Israel had thousands of rockets shot at it for years with diplomatic efforts and threats yielding no results. The Israeli army expended an unprecedented effort to avoid civilian casualties according to Richard Kemp, BBC military analyst. This cartoon comparing Israelis to Nazis is obscene. It hurts Jews to compare them to a group that systematically tried to destroy them, and delegitmizes the Israeli government.
johnjack said, 7 months ago

This is over the top. OilyPhant is a low life… Maybe a few rockets in his neighborhood from implacable islamists would open his eyes.
kolling said, 7 months ago

Good for Oliphant. For far too long Israeli has gotten away with actions that would have made any other country a pariah.
sippee said, 7 months ago

When will Jews recognise the fact that one can be anti Israeli and not be anti Semetic? There is a difference! I dislike Israel’s policies on Palestine as much as I do Mugabe’s policies in Zimbabwe which does not make me anti African or racist This comic is incredibly courageous and so spot on! Also,from what source did the figure of Jews being 0.04% of the world’s population come? The continued use of the holocaust of 60+ yrs ago for justification of Israel’s current policies just makes many desensitised and holds very little sway these days.
sippee said, 7 months ago

Oops, Jackskuatt, I’d better edit mmyself. Not 0.04%, 0.01%! Even more bewildering!
OhYeahBoy said, 7 months ago

I’m not a Jew, but I thought the Star of David had 5 points not 6. He’s making a political comment. If people think it is a stereotype, then there is probably a reason. If I was a cartoonist and could draw, I would draw a penny being squeezed by a person wearing a yarmulke until it dropped blood. That is a typical stereotype.
mhb555 said, 7 months ago

He just hates Jews and no more needs to be said.

Soon he will say some of his best friends are
bmnot said, 7 months ago

Jackskuatt says trying to kill you daily. I guess Jackskuatt will have you believe that the Israelis treat the Palestinians and their neighbors with loving care. The Israelis harrass and attack the Palestinians on a daily 24/7 basis. Id consider that even worse than the poor people living in the desert that get a rocket slung at their cows. Have you ever watched Palestinian fisherman being harrassed by Israeli navy gunboats being shot at with high caliber machine guns off their bows or being smashed against the bulk heads by high pressure water cannons while they scream and cry that they are only fishermen? No of course you wont mention that because it doesnt suit your purposes. Go and do a google search for Gaza water cannons under videos. The Israelis not only harrass them thy also want to slowly starve and kill them off slowly. Who is trying to kill who?
The world is tired of your Hasbara and now its brought to America since we have been blind enough to support the state of Israel with its lies. Thankfully Americans are finally seeing the true story of who and what is bringing unrest in the middle east.
Truth_Teller said, 7 months ago

While I, a wholly unrepentant pantheist, would dearly love to believe that there’s some remarkably just and infinitely wise potentate residing in the hidden folds of multi-dimensional space-time who regards the latest shenanigans of Israel as a blasphemy upon His laws and a mockery of everything He holds dear, I nonetheless fear I must resign myself to merely being wholeheartedly disgusted and thoroughly saddened by what amounts to yet another tiresome example of humanity acting on no higher level than swarms of bacteria or colonies of fungus ceaselessly struggling to wrest control of additional patches of territory atop a smoldering pile of festering refuse; and while there are indeed many deluded simpletons among us who may willfully believe in the existence of wondrously magical books whose hallowed words tell of great and powerful wizards who harbor grand designs for those fortunate races whom He favors and diabolical tortures for those whom He relentlessly abhors, it is simply a doleful fact for those who happen to see reality in less medievally-tinged colors that those Jews who refuse to acknowledge the swinish brutality and despotic ruthlessness with which their adapted state carried out their splendidly effective little “operation” to terrorize and intimidate a subject population driven to the heights of desperation by the hopelessness of their collective situation under the weight of transparently colonialistic policies are, despite their vociferous and self-aggrandizing insistence to the contrary, simply Jews who are not very distinguishable from the general run of humanity which, as but a momentary glance at any daily newspaper will inform you, are often no more than semi-refined baboons at best and outright blood-swilling demons at worst. The only matter I may happen to disagree with Oliphant upon in this instance is that he seems to imply that Israel, by pursuing its blindly militaristic policies, is bound to topple into the same abyss it is now chasing the hapless Gazans into; I harbor no such sentimental or moralistic bias: wholesale slaughter of enemy populations has always been a profoundly useful and eminently respectable element of statecraft since the very dawn of “civilization”. Don’t believe me? Ask a certified expert in the field like Henry Kissinger or Donald Rumsfeld - they’ll be more than happy to set you straight - or kill you - dependent, of course, upon just how useful you may be to them at any particular moment…
skstephan said, 7 months ago

Typical anti-semitism. What terrorists most want us to see are the burning bodies of the victims of their own terror while blaming it on Israel. The terrorists living in Gaza and the West Bank hide behind women and children while launching rockets at innocent Israelis and then blame the Israeli gov’t for retaliating. Typical of someone uniformed or who is anti-semitic. Another score for the terrorists.
AsClearasaBell said, 7 months ago

Wow, what a controversial cartoon. Now we’ll definitely see demonstrations, rioting in the streets, and death threats against this cartoonist. These Jews are always killing anyone who dares oppose their….. huh? It’s not the Star, but the Crescent Moon?…. Oh,well…. never mind.
capish said, 7 months ago

very sad,well done,furthering the cause of terror.was this drawn in a warm cosy office,or your study.without fear,because you are bright enough to know that Israel does not issue fatwas.but not bright enough to know that this is very offensive,to many,who live under the constant threat of misiles and bombs.have you even been to gaza or siderot.or do you have a agenda that would explain this loathsom dipiction
pmb1414 said, 7 months ago

There are those who consider criticism of Zionism, that is those who seek a ‘greater Israel’ including the expulsion of the Palestinian people, as anti-semitism. They are not in the rational mainstream, and are generally both Christian and Jewish fundamentalist hard-liners- my way or the highway absolutists. Mearsheimer and Walt, the authors of “The Israel Lobby,” have shown that it is possible to criticize Israeli policy without being anti-semitic.
Perhaps Mr. Oliphant could have used another symbol in his editorial cartoon, but it is not anti-semitic. Visual impact is important in his media, and he gets the point across effectively.
The new Israeli leaders (and those who put them in office) have clearly forgotten the lessons of the Holocaust. Sometimes the truth is a bitter pill to swallow.
StarofDavid said, 7 months ago

Shame on you Oliphant… you have lost my respect and the respect of the just, true, and moral state of Israel.

This is by far the single most mainstream anti-semetic image I have seen out of the United States in a very long time… I would have thought this was done by a cartoonist in Iran or by the Germans in WWII!!
masea2 said, 7 months ago

What a grotesque mockery of reality!