Rupert Murdoch’s apology to the
Jewish community was not given, one suspects, because he truly believed the
cartoon by Gerald Scarfe was grotesque or offensive. It was a politically
motivated economic move, with thoughts only of the potential damage it might
cause to his Jewish/American audience, and meant to diffuse then placate that
large segment of his companies buying public.
Scarfe’s cartoon was not aimed at
Jewish people but rather at the Israeli leader and the Israeli nation, many of
whom are Christian, who continue to wage war on the Palestinians. There are many
people like myself who have nothing but admiration for Jews, who recognise and condemn
the atrocities of the holocaust but who dislike the way Israel conducts its
relations with its neighbour.
The cartoon does what caricatures
are meant to do; it amplifies the truth and challenges the situation in a
satiric fashion the better to make its point. With that in mind I guess it is grotesque
but then again it should be for isn't that the point?
The one serious error was not
of Gerald Scarfe’s making nor his illustration, he has done similar jobs on Thatcher, Obama and
the Syrian leader, but News International for publishing the drawing on
Holocaust day. Of course this upset Jews. It was a highly insensitive thing to have done but
don’t blame the cartoonist for doing his job.
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Rupert Murdoch is a heinous creature, far more a devil itself than the Devil's Advocate. Despise that man, wouldn't piss on him if he were on fire.
I don't have great knowledge of it, so there's not much I can say, but suffice it to say that the Israeli-Palestine conflict is an awful thing. It seems wrong to me that the Palestinians are basically forced to live on a reservation. Yet how does one say this without coming across as anti-Semitic? I have no anti-Semitic intent. But what is being done to the Palestinians is wrong in the same way as what was done to the American Indians or the Australian Aborigines was wrong. At least that is my take on it, given my understanding of the situation.
Tempest>>>We are singing from the same hymn sheet. Not that I as a devout atheist ever sing hymns!
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Freedom to say
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to listen
to accept
to denied
to BE
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