Even if Scarfe's cartoon isn't anti-Semitic, it is still vile and offensive. Given enduring, and well-founded, Jewish sensitivities over certain imagery, it is manifestly preferable to caricature and castigate Israeli leaders without them dripping buckets of blood. There is hardly a shortage of material.
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Post-Gaza, pre-UN, Israel looks even more isolated in a region that it has antagonized and alienated with its relentless, grinding occupation of the Palestinian people.
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A new Israeli government campaign emphasizes Jewish refugees from Arab lands as a factor in any future negotiations with the Palestinians, but, asks Rachel Shabi, what on earth has each refugee issue got to do with the other?
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Losing the complicity of regional dictators means that Israel needs to deploy diplomacy, and not brute force, with its neighbors in the Middle East. It's a radical shift, but depending only on military might won't keep Israel afloat much longer.
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