Arab world cartoonists prove a faster draw than their governments over Gaza | World news | The Guardian

 

"Israel is the main target of Arab fury, along with US support for it. But there is criticism too of the paralysis of the Arab League, whose history has been bound up with the Palestinian issue but which has yet to meet to discuss the crisis. In a cartoon by Jabertoon, an Israeli tank is shown being refuelled at a petrol pump marked "Arab silence".

In "rescuing Gaza" the Saudi cartoonist Aimantoon drew a pampered teenager gorging on fries and fizzy drinks while gazing tearfully at the thousands of "likes" on a Facebook page in support of Gaza. A Libyan tweeted in a similarly critical vein: "Don't worry people of Gaza, Arabs around the globe are going to change their avatars and profile pictures to help you."

"The Zionists are hitting Gaza," says a man in a cartoon by the Egyptian Amr Okasha. A second man, a bearded, turbaned jihadist with the black flag of Isis, pauses before slitting the throat of his terrified victim, and says: "We're busy, we only slaughter Arabs."

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Arab world cartoonists prove a faster draw than their governments over Gaza | World news | The Guardian