STEVE APFEL
STEVE APFELצילום: עצמי

Start by clicking the link below. Take a minute to digest its message. I did not want to ask the cartoonis's permission to repost it..

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/cartoon/hellfire/

The cartoon makes five statements

Out of the blue with the righteous rage of jihad the Jew bombs a Muslim enclave

Who did what to arouse the Jew is beside the point

Residents of the enclave are undeserving victims of the criminal Jew

The Jew-leader has demon eyes, big nose and facial expressions displaying triumphal revenge

The Jew in his role of international criminal, commits indiscriminate killing and devastation

What the statements reveal about the cartoon creator

Leaders of every Western power have grouped Hamas with ISIS, and supported its complete dismantling. They had every reason to adopt the stance. Hamas and ISIS practice a savagery consisting of burning alive, beheading, torture, mass rape, hostage taking, even not stopping at infanticide.

The Zapiro (actually South African cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, another self-hating Jew) cartoon whitewashes out the barbarity of Hamas, replacing it with the barbarity of the Jew. As such the cartoon identifies with the barbarianism for which Western powers require Hamas, as they required ISIS, to be eradicated.

On a micro level, the cartoon creator doers not stop to imagine himself in the place of a Jewish grandparent who has to live with an indescribable agony. The son, the daughter-in-law and three little grandchildren are no more. The grandparent is left with no progeny, nothing to live for. Zapiro hardens his heart in order to cover up Nazi acts powered by a Nazi drive to exterminate the Jew.

By what means does he, a Jew with Jewish children and probably Jewish grandchildren, harden his heart? How did Zapiro come to side with ideology no different to that laid out in Hitler’s Mein Kampf?

Zapiro contrives to do so by inventing a world utterly divorced from reality. His world is built on hallucination:

To Zapiro: The mantra ‘Occupation’ (the mantra Hamas chants to emulate and excuse Nazi ideology and acts) means the “Occupied” West Bank of the Jordan River, which is in reality not occupied according to international law. But worse, in the real world, those who say 'Occupied' mean “From the river to the sea," a mantra for annihilating Israel.

Zapiro admits to that meaning when he claims that the "occupation" has been going on for 75 years, i.e. from the very birth of Israel.

For the proceeding illumination I am indebted to Brendan O'Neill's essay: "Why won’t the Jews just let themselves be killed?"

Zapiro holds that if the Jew-country targets Hamas it recklessly puts civilians at risk.

Zapiro holds that when the Jew-military gives Gaza civilians fair warning to move away from targeted areas, it practices “forced transfer” which is ethnic cleansing, a war crime.

Zapiro holds that any and every act of the Jew-military is a war crime. Everything.

-Killing civilians while attacking Hamas – war crime.

-Trying not to kill civilians by warning them to move away – war crime.

-Bombing tenements, mosques, schools wherein Hamas situates weaponry and from which it fires rockets – war crime.

-Giving citizens time to leave before bombs fall – war crime.

“The surrealism of screaming war crime! every time a (Jew-fighter) picks up a gun was brought home by two headlines in the Independent, published a mere 10 hours apart. Israel is engaged in ‘collective punishment in Gaza’, claimed the first. ‘Israel accused of “trying to ethnically cleanse Gaza Strip” as one million ordered to evacuate’, said the second. Got that Israel? ‘Punish’ Palestinians and you’re a criminal. Do everything in your power to avoid ‘punishing’ them and you’re again criminal.”

Conclusion

Zapiro’s commonality with the trap-setting ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t’ media, institutions and people, cannot be more telling. It exposes what he, like every Israel-hater at heart ultimately really wants. Consciously or unconsciously he wants to stop Jews defending their lives...Meaning the end of Israel along with the extermination of every Jewish soul returned to its Promised Land.

Steve Apfelis a veteran authority on anti-Zionism and a prolific author in general